Pour les Mongols des États-Unis, la tradition du #naadam se poursuit, avec quelques adaptations…
Mongol-American Naadam : creating new culture | UBPost News
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Traditional horse racing competitions have been largely replaced by children’s wood horse racing or competitive running in most festivals in San Francisco; Denver, Colorado; Arlington, Virginia; Los Angeles, Seattle and Chicago, where over two thousand people of Mongolian origin make up their respective populations.
Tug of war now takes place alongside archery in a San Francisco Bay Naadam celebration and Chicago’s Mongolian community holds volleyball and basketball (an important sport for Chicago’s history) competitions in addition to traditional games. Deel (Mongolian traditional clothing) competitions award the most skilled designer or wearer in New York’s Central Park and the Mongolian Children’s festival in Arlington, Virginia holds a children’s singing and Morin Khuur competition every year.
Évidemment, la compétition de volley-ball emprunte nettement plus au pays d’origine, mais la lutte reste incontournable…
Les 3 « sports virils » traditionnels sont le tir à l’arc, la course à cheval et la lutte. Même si le premier est ouvert aux femmes depuis l’époque communiste et le deuxième est réservé aux enfants des deux sexes.
The Mongolian School of Colorado, which holds a community-wide Naadam celebration in the Denver area, describes their celebration.
“We pick the second weekend, Saturday or Sunday, of July to celebrate Naadam, and almost everyone in the community participates. It is like a year-waited traditional celebration for Mongolians in Colorado. They do have the archery and the men’s three games like wrestling, but horse racing is not actual horses but kids participating riding a wooden horse, and playing knuckle bones and Dembee,” the School told the UB Post.
If Mongolian Naadam customs are adapting little by little to their new environment, wrestling seems to remain unchangingly the center of festivals in the United States. Considered by many as the spirit of the Mongolian national festivities, it is unsurprising that every Naadam festival sees wrestlers take to the arena. Naadam celebrations in the United States are still part of an effort to preserve the legacy of Chinggis Khan and Mongolian history, by organizations such as the Mongol American Cultural association, who have taken part in making Naadam possible in many cities of the U.S.