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Studio 96 explores Hmong community through cloth
STERLING — Hmong flower cloth — or paj ntaub — is one of the world’s great textile traditions and an excellent example of cloth as community. Despite its deep roots in Hmong culture, this complex art was not widely known outside Asia until after …
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Obama’s Visit to Laos a Watershed Moment for L.A.’s Lao Community
The CIA advisors trained and supplied a guerrilla force of mostly hill tribesmen of the Hmong ethnic minority in Laos, whose ancestral lands abutted the border area overlooking the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The town of Long Chen, site of a secret CIA air base …
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Jihad explainer
Tags LoVim li cas thiaj muaj neeg totaub yuam kev rau lub ntsiab lus tseeb ntawm los lus ” Jihad ” thiab ho muaj neeg phem siv lo lus no kom tau txais txiaj ntsim rau lawv? Nws hos txhais tau lub ntsiab lus meej tseeb li cas tiag?
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NorCal Hmong, ACLU Take on Sheriff Over Voter Suppression
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — Nestled under the dominating silhouette of Mt. Shasta in northernmost California is a bustling community of Vietnam War refugees and Hmong-Americans seeking solitude in normally tranquil Siskiyou County. Hundreds of newly …
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Going beyond the model minority myth in education
I am Hmong American. I came to this country as a refugee. I was a first-generation college student. I was a commuter student, juggling the demands of working, going to school, and taking care of my parents and siblings. My parents having had no formal …
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Ferris revealed as Torchlight marshal, Quarberg to lead Maple Leaf
He also has taught in other La Crosse area schools, alongside Hmong Lao veterans, about Hmong contributions and sacrifices for the U.S. efforts in the Vietnam War. A perpetually active member of local military organizations, Ferris has served in virtually …
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New ASG President Wants to Bridge Gap between ASG and Students
He wants to get students involved in the issues affecting them. Before his presidency, Xiong was also involved in the Hmong American Student Association at Fresno City College for a year. As an Inter Club Council representative, Xiong only had a one-year …
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Ferris, Quarberg named Oktoberfest parade marshals
That includes serving at VFW Commander, president of the Korean War Veterans Association and as an active member of the Hmong Assistance Task Force in La Crosse. Ferris said everything he does, he gives 100 percent and that includes his new role as an …
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In Milwaukee, harvesting from deep roots
Ning Thao, a Hmong gardener, is packaging green onions she’ll sell at a farmers’ market the next day. It’s the garden’s first Family Movie night—a screening of Disney’s Zootopia. The DJ plays a final song while children dance on the makeshift …
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Assisted living, clinic may be coming to Saxon site
The St. Paul-based Hmong American Partnership is proposing to build a three-story, 50-unit assisted-living facility as well as a two-story, 15,000-square-foot medical center or office building on the northwest quadrant of University Avenue and Galtier Street.
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Ceremony honors prisoners of war, and those still missing
A retired Army major general and former Hmong and South Vietnamese fighters will be among those marking national POW/MIA Day on Friday in Sioux Falls. Maj. Gen. Lynn Hartsell will be the keynote speaker in what will be the fifth year of the event at …
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Deer Hunting Regulations Available in Hmong, Spanish
With the arrival of deer hunting season in Wisconsin, the Department of Natural Resources says it is striving to ensure all hunters have the most up-to-date regulations that govern the fall hunting tradition. Similar to previous years, the department will …
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Community School of Excellence Breaks Ground on New Facility
The Hmong charter school averted a closure this summer by getting a new authorizer. That happened not long after CSE fired 90 percent of its teachers and staff before hiring most of them back. The new school is scheduled to open next year.
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Maiv PAC Wants to Improve ‘the Lives of Hmong and Immigrant Women’
After holding their launch event in August, Maiv PAC, the first Hmong-American women’s political action committee in the nation according to NBC affiliate KARE 11, is busy fundraising and deciding which candidates to endorse on behalf of Hmong-American …
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UWM, Voces receive federal training grants
Tags EnglishThe target audience includes non-English/limited English speaking workers and training will be presented in English, Spanish, Hmong and Polish. The Susan Harwood Training Grant Program awards funding to a variety of nonprofits for training on the …
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Thanks, Obama, For Acknowledging Lao War Victims, But Stop Creating More War Victims
To circumvent the 1962 Geneva Conventions prohibiting foreign interference in the country and get around the woeful performance of the Laotian army, the CIA created its own clandestine army among the Hmong whom legendary CIA agent Edward Lansdale …
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Talk radio host and lifelong educator vie for assembly seat in Wausau
Wright’s first education job as an ESL teacher for the Wausau School District was made possible in part by the city’s large population of Hmong refugees. After fighting for the CIA during the Vietnam War, the Hmong were violently driven to refugee …
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St. Paul loses a civic giant: Larry Cohen, mayor, advocate and judge
He also set up a program called Hmong circles of peace to help resolve disputes. Cohen’s first foray into elective office came when he was voted onto the Ramsey County Board. He ran for mayor in 1971 and served two terms, until 1976. When he took office …