Homeland

Welcome back!

     This week I am going to talk about the homeland or physical landscape for the Lepcha people. As I've mentioned before, the origins of the Lepcha are unknown but they are indigenous people of Sikkim, located in Nepal.

     The Lepcha people are made up of four distinct main communities:

Renjóngmú of Sikkim

(http://gatewaytoeast.blogspot.com/2010/11/sikkim.html)

 Támsángmú of Kalimpong

(http://wbnorthbengaldev.gov.in/HtmlPage/Kalimpong.aspx)

  Kurseong

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurseong)

Promú of Samtse and Chukha in southwestern Bhutan

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/4782636.stm)

Thanks for reading! 

Next time: Cosmos