Oregon
$1.3 billion Powerball win draws attention to a little-known immigrant culture in the U.S.
A 46-year-old immigrant's Powerball win has raised awareness about Iu Mien people, a southeast Asian ethnic group with a sizeable community in Oregon.
During the Vietnam War, the CIA and U.S. military recruited Iu Mien in neighboring Laos, many of them subsistence farmers, to engage in guerrilla warfare and to provide intelligence and surveillance to disrupt the Ho Chi Minh Trail that the North Vie... [3978 chars]