![]() They speak Karenni language, also called Kayah Li. There are over a dozen ethnic Karenni subgroups, but they all speak the same language (with only small variations in dialect). The Karenni people are known as the “Red Karen” and live in a small, mountainous region to the north of Karen State and west of Thailand. We estimate that there are 15,000 Karen, 1,500 Karenni, and 1,000 Mon. Three main ethnic minority groups from Burma live in Minnesota: the Karen, the Karenni, and the Mon. As a result, millions of people from the ethnic nationalities become internally displaced people (IDPs) in Burma or refugees in other countries (United States, Thailand, and Australia). The lands where their homes reside are used for development projects and to exploit resources. They are victims of unpaid-forced labor campaigns, destroyed farmlands and fields due to scorched-earth policies, and relocation programs that require whole villages to leave in an instant. Many of these ethnic groups have been forced to leave their homes and they face persistent discrimination by the military regime. Other ethnic groups make up the remaining one-third of Burma they live mainly by the borders and hills. The Bamar controls the military and the government. The majority Bamar (Burman) ethnic group comprises two-thirds of the population. Burma is divided into seven states, each named after the seven ethnic nationalities, and seven regions (formerly called divisions), which are largely inhabited by the Bamar (Burmans). The seven largest minority nationalities are the Chin, the Kachin, the Karen (sometimes called Kayin), the Karenni (sometimes called Kayah), the Mon, the Rakhine, and the Shan. However, it is known that there are more than 135 different ethnic groups in Burma, each with its own culture, values, history and language. Hence, no one knows precisely how many ethnic groups live there. There are no current or reliable statistics on the population in Burma. Immigrants in Indiana account for 7% of business owners in the state and 6% of business owners in Indianapolis, according to the report by the American Immigration Council.Burma is a multiethnic, multilingual, and multicultural society. Indiana immigrants integral part of the workforce According to a 2020 report by New American Economy, the top three languages spoken at home other than English were: Spanish, Burmic languages: Burmese, Lisu and Lolo, and Chinese. In 2018, 30.3% of immigrants living in Marion County had limited English language proficiency. Languages spoken other than EnglishĪbout 8.8% of Indiana's population speaks a language other than English at home, according to Census data from 2019. Although there is no state-wide detailed data available of which languages those are, more information is available about Marion County. About 35,000 Burmese people call the Hoosier state home, with 24,000 of those living in Indianapolis as of 2020. Fort Wayne is home to about 10,000 Burmese Hoosiers and smaller populations also reside in South Bend, Logansport and Bloomington. The Burmese community in Indiana, including foreign-born and U.S.-born, is one of the largest in the country, according to the Burmese American Community Institute. The latest available data from Indianapolis-based Exodus Refugee Immigration, a refugee advocacy and resettlement organization, in 2020 the organization helped resettle 43 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo, six refugees from Sudan, one from Syria, 10 were from Eritrea, 22 from Afghanistan and 93 from Myanmar (formerly Burma). Indiana is also home to small communities of Burmese, Congolese, Haitian, Afghan, Sudanese and Syrian refugees and refugee families who fled violence, persecution and war in their countries. Many live in Hendricks County and the south side of Indianapolis. Some Hoosiers with roots in India are Sikhs. Sikhism is the fifth-largest religion in the world, and there are more than 500,000 Sikh Americans living in the United States. There are an estimated 5,000 - including foreign-born and U.S.-born - Sikhs in Central Indiana and 10,000 in the state. ![]() Shelby, Hancock, Marion, Madison, Johnson and Hamilton counties have large populations of immigrants from Mexico, according to a 2018 study by the Indy Chamber's Hispanic Business Council. About 16% of Boone County's Hispanic or Latino population is from Puerto Rico.
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