Trends : While many Yao have come from Laos as recently as 1956, there are reLatively few of them coming into Thailand today. Their settlements have become more permanent than in the past and there
arc no significant numbers of Yao people moving out of their main areas today. They tend to relocate a village every ten years, but do not move long distances. A few Yao in Amphur Mae Chan. Chiang Mai,
have moved into the valleys and taken up wet rice cultivation, but these are exceptions.