Billy Lor, a Hmong shaman, lights incense at the altar he built at his Wisconsin family home on March 1.

For the annual fall renewal of her shaman spirit, Mee Vang Yang will soon ritually redecorate the tall altar in her living ... of six through a translator in Hmong. It’s the language spoken ...

For the annual fall renewal of her shaman spirit, Mee Vang Yang will soon ritually redecorate the tall altar in her living ... of six through a translator in Hmong. It's the language spoken ...

For the annual fall renewal of her shaman spirit, Mee Vang Yang will soon ritually redecorate the tall altar in her living ... of six through a translator in Hmong. It’s the language spoken ...

The majority of the approximately 300,000 Hmong in the United ... annual fall renewal of her shaman spirit, Mee Vang Yang will soon ritually redecorate the tall altar in her living room where ...

At just 5 years old, in a Hmong refugee camp in Thailand, Vang was called to be a shaman. He started training for all the traditional Hmong rituals and by age 10, he had mastered more than 70%.