Week Four! Mining and Visulaizing What We Gathered

This week's assignment is to do a project brief based on what we know about the Montagnards and what we what to find out about them. My interest is the traditional religion of animism. I understand that many of the Montagnards that live in America now practice Catholic ( which I am) and Protestant religions but I want to know the history of the traditional Montagnard religion. I want to learn about the rituals and sacred practices of animism and the history of it since I don't know much about it. 

What I still want to learn is about why Animism is still not practiced as much and the whole "deal" on the persecutions. There is plenty of information on the persecutions online but I want to hear some concrete information on this topic because with all the information out there it all sorta gets jumbled up in my brain. 

Here are some links that have some information about the old tradition:

http://www.cal.org/co/montagnards/vlife.html
 http://ki-media.blogspot.com/2010/05/viet-fabricated-communist-style.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvkBWT8Xn7Q

 A person in the Montagnard community that I would like to meet with is a clergyman, although I'm sure this person does not currently practice the old tradition of Animism I'm sure this person knows the history of it and could explain to me in more detail what its about.