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Challenging the Limits: Indigenous Peoples of the Mekong Region Drugs Aliens despised and feared byEdited by Don McCaskill, Prasit Leepreecha, and Kwanchewan Buadaeng Except on tourist brochures, the indigenous peoples of Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and southern China (Yunnan) are the least visible, and most excluded, of citizens. All these countries have used similar strategies to classify, include, or exclude minority peoples from the project of nationalism. Understanding the cultural and economic trajectories of key minorities such as the Dai,