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The Hmong Culture The Hmong Culture of South Asia is a very interesting ethnic group. Between 300,000 to 600,000 Hmong live in Southeast Asian countries, such as Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar.
Hmong veteran and community advocate Colonel Vang Fong passes away
FRESNO, California (KSEE/KGPE) — Hmong veteran and advocate Colonel Vang Fong died Saturday at the age of 77. Colonel Vang Fong fought with the Central Intelligence Agency’s “Secret Army” in Laos in …
Pao Lor’s ‘Modern Jungles’ explores his childhood journey from Laos to Green Bay
If they will be proud of him, if they might disavow him. For an accomplished educator and author of the new memoir “Modern Jungles: A Hmong Refugee’s Childhood Story of Survival,” those seem to be …
Atrocities against the Hmong in Laos
The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) has released a report documenting an increase in military attacks and repression of the Hmong community indigenous to the Xaisomboun region of …
Ethnic Origins: The Adaptation of Cambodian and Hmong Refugees in Four American Cities
Milton Osborne (1988, 22)… Only 350 miles separate Angkor Wat from the Plain of Jars, the area of Laos where the Hmong once claimed autonomy (see figure 3.1). Yet the Hmong and the Khmer have …
After 33 years, Winona’s Yong Nhia Lor works toward citizenship
Yong Nhia Lor, left, stands with his wife, Judy Xiong, on their back deck in Winona, Thursday, April 15, 2021. Lor, a refugee from Laos who has lived in the United States since 1988, plans to apply …
Cultural Conversations: Former D.C. Everest School District principal visits Laos annually to learn Hmong culture
Former principal for Weston Elementary School, Jim Harris, visits Laos annually to teach himself and central Wisconsin about Hmong culture and heritage.
“Modern Jungles”: UW-Green Bay Professor Shares His Story as a Hmong Refugee
The memoir, “Modern Jungles: A Hmong Refugee’s Childhood Story of Survival,” recounts the first 14 years of Lor’s life, when he fled from his home in Laos to refugee camps in Thailand before …
Personal Narrative: Escaping The Nightmare Of Laos
Both of my parents were born in Laos, which is a country located in southeastern Asia. During the Vietnam War and Laotian Civil War, or as many Hmong Americans call it, the ‘Secret War’, over 10,000 …
City of Clovis Honors Local Hmong Veteran
On Saturday, March 13, the City of Clovis presented a proclamation honoring Lt. Col. Wangyee Vang, Ph.D. for his military service, and advocacy for his native home of Laos. He served as a pivotal …
Big Read Project coming to Jefferson County
This year’s title is “The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir” by Kao Kalia Yang. Yang tells the story of her family’s imprisonment in Laos, their escape to a Thailand refugee camp and immigration to …
Notable Minority Executives: Chris Her-Xiong
Born in Laos, Chris Her-Xiong, the founder and executive director of the Hmong American Peace Academy (HAPA), and her family left the country in 1975, escaping from communist forces when she was …
Pang Xiong Sirirathasuk Sikoun, Philadelphia artist and keeper of Hmong culture, dies at 76
With needle and thread, she stitched her story into embroidered clothing and wallhangings: the communist takeover of Laos, years in a refugee camp, migration. And she spent a lifetime passing on the …
Sai Shoua Yang, Hmong community leader, dies of COVID-19 at 88
From the remote mountains of Laos to a new life on U.S. shores, Sai Shoua Yang was a tireless advocate for the Hmong people. But his advocacy was abruptly cut short — Yang, 88, of Forest Lake, died of …
Sai Shoua Yang, Hmong community leader, died of COVID-19 at 88
From the remote mountains of Laos to a new life on U.S. shores, Sai Shoua Yang was a tireless advocate for the Hmong people. But his advocacy was abruptly cut short — Yang, 88, of Forest Lake, died of …
A family protector dies of COVID-19: Sai Shoua Yang, 88, led dozens to safety through jungles of Laos
Sai Shoua Yang (Courtesy of the Yang family) It would become an emblematic role for Sai Shoua Yang, or “Uncle Sai,” a legal officer who presided over multiple Hmong villages in Laos at a young age and …
A grandma’s stories of life in Laos light up this children’s book
The Most Beautiful Thing is a lovely picture book about Kalia, a third grader whose Grandma is a Hmong immigrant from Laos. Kalia loves her Grandma so much and believes it is an honor to care for her.
Custom house
As their custom they settled in the highlands (mountains) from Vietnam and Laos and later in Thailand. They inherited the name “Miao”, from living in the mountains. Today Five million Hmong reside in …
