The Chai Vang case focused on hunting and the Hmong culture for the entire trial. Saturday morning a special class brought the two aspects together during a hunter's safety class for Hmong residents.

More than twenty potential hunters gathered to learn the pieces of the gun and how to use it safely. They faced many obstacles due to a language barrier—including literature written only in English which had to be translated as the class went along.

“In Hmong what is a magazine and what does a barrel mean and what does action mean," says Kou Xiong, a liason officer for the DNR. "What does stop mean so all the words have to translate to Hmong and then remember the English and Hmong words."

Xiong doesn't believe the Vang case should be discussed during the safety class. He says the safety aspects he teaches in the two day class are better to focus on than a single, unrelated incident.