Tag: camp
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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 … Read Full Article
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Tag: Hmong voters
They have been solidly in the DFL camp, but both major parties are now making major efforts to attract the growing and increasingly diverse Hmong vote. Read Full Article
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Statement on Refugee Camp collections
Southeast Asian Digital Archive (SEADA) acknowledges the complexities these collections from white western former international aid workers hold: There is an imbalance in the historical record because … Read Full Article
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Regent highlights passion for supporting students, equity
As a kid, Ilean Her watched her parents give guidance and support to families while they lived in the Ban Vinai refugee camp in Thailand. Not only did this experience allow her to develop a passion to … Read Full Article
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Claiming Space: Two artists from war-torn countries find a place and a voice in Minnesota through music
Born in a refugee camp, the rapper’s family was also escaping civil war in Laos and crossed over to Thailand to come to the United States. Syracuse did not have a large Hmong population, and Lee found … Read Full Article
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Thai artist Samak’s ethnographic work on display at exhibition in Singapore
Pao Houa Her left Laos with her family when she was a small child. After a short period at a refugee camp in Thailand, she relocated with her family to Minnesota, USA, where she grew up and where a … Read Full Article
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Camp Fire and digital-first strategy could complicate census in Butte County
The Complete Count Committee, a local coalition charged with doing outreach for the census, has decided to fill that gap by sending its own postcards with census information in English, Spanish and … Read Full Article
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What’s the heart of Yia Vang’s Vinai funding request? Hmong community ownership.
But for Vang—and many in the Hmong community—the word “Vinai” means a lot more. From 1975 to 1992, Ban Vinai was a refugee camp in Thailand that housed up to 45,000 people, about 95 percent of them … Read Full Article
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Wausau Hmong community remembers the closing of Wat Tham Krabok refugee camp
WAUSAU, Wis. (WAOW) — The Wausau Hmong American Center and the From Laos to America Museum marked the 15 anniversary of the closing of Wat Tham Krabok on Thursday. The refugee camp served as a place … Read Full Article
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Woman lives her American Dream in Tulsa
TULSA, Okla. — Mai Lee is a living example of the American Dream at work in Tulsa. She was born in a refugee camp in Thailand after her Hmong family fled Laos during the Vietnam War. Her mother would … Read Full Article
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State audit highlights gaps in Butte County preparedness, Cal OES response to Camp Fire
For example, there are now pre-translated alerts in Spanish and Hmong. Some changes to state law effective January 2020 will require including representatives from vulnerable groups in planning. The … Read Full Article