A newly formed chapter of the Minnesota Deer Hunters Association, met in St. Paul last Sunday. According to the Asian American Press, the Capitol Sportsmen Chapter is open to everyone but is largely made up of Hmong.
Around 30 people, mostly Hmong deer hunters, attended a meeting last Sunday at the Sunrise Market building in St Paul, to officially form the new Capitol Sportsmen Chapter of the Minnesota Deer Hunter’s Association. This mostly Hmong group is open to anyone, and members will be actively recruiting Hmong and Asian outdoors enthusiasts to form the first primarily minority chapter of the organization.
About ten percent of Minnesota’s 475,000 registered hunters are MDHA members. It is the hope of chapter founders that with the extreme need for a unified voice among the 10,000 Hmong hunters, nearly a quarter of the population, and other Asian and Pacific Islanders, that live in an around the metro area, will join the chapter and work on key issues of interest and help prevent incidents like the two separate racially motivated hunting murders in Wisconsin in the past two years.
Tom Remington
