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Refugees make Missoula a better town
It was around Christmas. It was cold, with lots of snow on the ground, and a Hmong family moved in across the street. They moved here from a refugee camp in Thailand – never seen snow and never felt the cold of a Montana winter. I got to help them shovel …
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Historic Bill Giving Farmworkers Overtime Equity Goes to Governor
Most of the aged Filipino workers have retired. The Asian farmworkers have had their numbers bolstered recently by new Hmong and Sikh immigrants in the Central Valley.
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Applications being accepted for Bush Fellowship
Twenty-four were selected this year, including Hmong hip-hop artist Tou SaiKo Lee and veterans’ advocate Trista Louise Matascastillo, both of St. Paul. The third east metro recipient is Mukhtar Ibrahim of Vadnais Heights, a Somali-American reporter with …
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A Weekend in Des Moines
But the producers’ stands—which seemed to be mostly run by local Hmong, Laotian, and Vietnamese farmers—had beautiful vegetables, some exotic, including these wacky little bitter melons (below), eggplants of all shapes and sizes, greens that have no …
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State Declassifies Documents on “Legendary Tony Po” and his “Secret Army”
According to John Prados’s must-read biography of Po for Unredacted, Po went to Laos in March 1961 to train the Hmong to fight against the Vietnamese Communists. Hating paperwork and preferring the field, Po was content that a younger officer …
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Karen People in Twin Cities Seek to Take Driver’s License Test in Their Own Language
“You can create for Vietnamese, Somali or Hmong, why not Karen?” We first talked to DPS spokesman Bruce Gordon by phone in July. He told us the DPS didn’t offer the driver’s permit in Karen. We continued to ask for an interview to find out why not.
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Obama Makes the First U.S. Presidential Visit to Laos: Part 1
There have been a series of attacks on vehicles traveling on the main road in central and northern Laos, in an area that was full of Hmong insurgent groups in the past. In addition, there has been a string of killings of Chinese nationals in Laos over the …
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RBC bank bridges language barriers with new in-branch video interpretation app
Available now, this on-demand video service currently offers 13 languages (including Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Polish, Somali, Arabic, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Hmong, Nepali, Russian, and American Sign Language) with more to follow.
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Volunteer opportunities in Wausau
Ability to work with a diverse population, organize and lift modest-weight items is required. Hmong and/or Spanish language a plus. Contact Evan at 715-845-1966 or [email protected]. Copy paper to spare: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northcentral …
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Laotian, Hmong Americans Cautiously Optimistic Ahead of Obama’s Laos Visit
Some Laotian Americans and Hmong Americans are cautiously optimistic about President Barack Obama’s visit to Laos next week. Obama will be the first U.S. president to visit the country, according to the White House, with stops at the U.S.-ASEAN Summit and …
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Breaking the Ice: Health equity director works to close gaps
Q. What was the last arts or cultural event you attended? A. Most recently I went to the Hmong Soccer Tournament during July Fourth. I took my niece, my daughter and son. I try to take my kids to big Hmong events every year, the soccer tournament and Hmong …
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Fresno Unified parents, staff offer suggestions for bond spending
Around 200 students are allowed in the cafeteria at a time, she said. Hmong and Spanish translators were available to help southeast Fresno residents fill out surveys that will be reviewed by the Fresno County Board of Education.
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More Than Just Hunting Ghosts: Mainstream Disciplines Every Researcher Should Be Familiar With
When Saigon fell in 1974, effectively ending the conflict in Vietnam, the Hmong people found themselves in a very dangerous situation. The Hmong, an ethic minority from the mountainous regions of Laos and Vietnam, were recruited by the French and American …
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Refugees add to Missoula’s fabric
I was teaching at Willard Elementary when the earliest Hmong students arrived. At first it was a challenge to all, teachers, students and the Hmong families, since language and culture barriers were significant. A lot of hard work and patience resulted in …
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Duel of Suitors Yields an M.L.S. Franchise for Minnesota
McGuire saw room for significant growth of Minnesota soccer among millennials and the soccer-loving Hmong and Somali immigrant communities. He renamed the club Minnesota United F.C. in 2013, with a local branding firm incorporating Minnesota’s state bird …
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The tribes paying the brutal price of conservation
The groups says that they have become squatters on their own land, with entry into the forest restricted. Thousands of ethnic Hmong and Karen hill tribes groups in northern Thailand have been displaced from their forests after they were designated national …
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Lay educators help boost colorectal screening rates in Hmong
Hmong Americans are more likely to understand the importance of colorectal cancer screening and to get screened when they’re provided information by specially trained Hmong lay health educators, new research from UC Davis has found. The study by Elisa …
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Hmong refugees in U.S. advise newcomers – put your past behind and get to work
MISSOULA, Montana, Aug 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Vang Moua, a member of the ethnic Hmong hill tribe who resettled in the American West from Laos decades ago, has simple advice for new refugees. Put aside your pride, put your past behind you and get …