Tag: Missouri
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The Missouri Immigration Oral History Project and Hmong-Lao Veteran’s Day
Host and archivist Haley Frizzle-Green honors Hmong-Lao Veterans Day with a look at the Missouri Immigration Oral History Project … Full story: https://www.ksmu.org/show/archives/2025-05-26/the-missouri-immigration-oral-history-project-and-hmong-lao-veterans-day
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The Neo-Minnesotan Republic
The Republic would continue expansion, absorbing territory east of the Missouri River. Chicago, a largely Lutheran nation, would fall under Neo-Minnesotan protection. a largely English-speaking Peoria … Read Full Article
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Progressives score big wins in Missouri and Michigan
Progressive candidates, running on causes such as Medicare For All, the $15 minimum wage, workers rights and the Green New Deal, scored impressive wins in the August 4 Democratic primaries in Missouri … Read Full Article
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George Floyd’s death was ‘the last straw’ for the black community
This has the potential to be worse than Ferguson” he said, referring to the town in Missouri that erupted in riots in 2014 after an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, was fatally shot by a white … Read Full Article
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Ozarks Tonight: CultureFest Coming to Springfield
Groups involved so far include: Grupo Latino Americano, Korean Association, Hmong Association, NAACP, Minorities in Business, International Institute of Southwest Missouri, the Chamber of Commerce and … Read Full Article
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Now running for U.S. Senate in Missouri: a Steve Bannon Movie
Instead of Clint Eastwood running for president, the candidate will be that movie from 10 years ago where Eastwood just glares at the Hmong people next door for two hours. And so on. We’re one step closer to this future with the arrival of Courtland … Read Full Article
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HLGU keeps busy during summer break
The largest of the camps included those here for the Missouri Baptist Convention’s annual Super Summer, and a Hmong Chinese camp called Standing Stones Conference. Other camps included the Missouri Missions and Sports Crusaders, the Gasconade builders … Read Full Article
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Hmong Farmers in Missouri Expand Farming Approaches
ROCKY COMFORT, Mo. (AP) — Fue Yang was born in a refugee camp in Thailand. His family immigrated to the United States in 1980 when Yang was a month old. His parents, who fled Laos in the late 1970s, spoke little English, but Yang learned it early in … Read Full Article
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Traditional Hmong farmers in Missouri embrace new techniques
ROCKY COMFORT, Mo. — Fue Yang was born in a refugee camp in Thailand. His family immigrated to the United States in 1980 when Yang was a month old. His parents, who fled Laos in the late 1970s, spoke little English, but Yang learned it early in school … Read Full Article
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VIDEO: Growing from old roots
A growing community of Hmong farmers bring new life to dying farm life in rural Southwestern Missouri. The Hmong, part of an ethnic group from Southeast Asia, have partnered with MU Extension to implement high tunnel vegetable farming that has been … Read Full Article
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MU Extension and partners grow knowledge among Hmong farmers
More than vegetables grow in Fue Yang’s high tunnels. It is where opportunity grows for area Hmong farmers. Yang runs a teaching farm for University of Missouri Extension, Lincoln University and the Webb City Farmers Market. The collaborative effort is … Read Full Article
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Extension shares farming strategies with Hmong
ROCKY COMFORT — More than vegetables grow in Fue Yang’s high tunnels. It is where opportunity grows for area Hmong farmers. Yang runs a teaching farm for University of Missouri Extension, Lincoln University and the Webb City Farmers Market. The … Read Full Article
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Area Hmong producers view specialty Oggun tractor
An unusual opportunity was offered recently to farmers in the Hmong community in southwest Missouri by the producer of a custom tractor specially made for small farm operations, which is being marketed internationally. The Oggun tractor, designed and … Read Full Article
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This Food Truck Brings Big Flavors to Tiny Noel, Missouri
One of downtown’s newest additions is the Oriental Fusion food truck, owned and operated by the Hers, a local Hmong family. Like many Hmong in Missouri, Mao and Kao Her arrived in pursuit of the poultry house rush during the mid-2000s. They settled on a … Read Full Article
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They came to the United States from Asia as refugees. They ended up in southwest Missouri
“I want my kids to have an office job,” he said. Buy Photo Blong Thao, his wife Yia Yang and their three children are among Hmong who moved to Pierce City in 2003. This photo was taken in 2005. (Photo: News-Leader File Photo) The Hmong — an ethnic group … Read Full Article
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Program helps immigrant farmers extend growing season
ROCKY COMFORT, Mo. — A state-funded program to help southwest Missouri Hmong famers and others use a high-tunnel farming method has taught one family some valuable lessons in the first year. High-tunnel farming involves growing crops inside a plastic … Read Full Article
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Irrigation, pesticide drift part of learning on Hmong farm
ROCKY COMFORT, Mo. (AP) — A state-funded program to help southwest Missouri Hmong famers and others use a high-tunnel farming method has taught one family some valuable lessons in the first year. High-tunnel farming involves growing crops inside a … Read Full Article