tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89214357102691084982024-03-05T22:20:42.852-05:00The Hmong in meNickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.comBlogger762125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921435710269108498.post-79595077840399144942015-11-16T02:17:00.000-05:002015-11-16T02:42:25.319-05:00Paj Ntaub (The Rose Cloth) movie review
Image taken from Toj Siab Entertainment
Paj Ntaub has been long in the making, at least 5 years. Many people have asked me about its release date or has it been shelved. I have often posted on social media about my excitement about the movie. First of all, my childhood friend, Seng Yang is the director, producer, editor, writer, and many more. Second, my mom has a role in the movie. Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921435710269108498.post-7266241951373872372012-10-17T22:08:00.000-04:002012-10-17T22:09:06.787-04:00UNPO Secretary General Condemns Violence Against Hmong
UNPO Secretary General Marino Busdachin condemns in the statement below the recent violence against the Hmong people by the Lao and Vietnamese Military Forces, and urges the international community to speak out against this crackdown.
UNPO Secretary General Marino Busdachin condemns the recent violence perpetrated by the Lao and Vietnamese military forces against the Hmong people. Laos Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921435710269108498.post-21801435522007473012012-10-17T21:59:00.002-04:002012-10-17T22:02:44.965-04:00Novelist weaves together Hmong cultural tale
Houa Lor has two novels to her credit. Her most recent book, “Tomorrow: Tag Kis,” explores Hmong family relationships and the traditional role of women in that culture.
A New Richmond author has opened a window into Hmong culture with her newest book.
Houa Lor borrows experiences and conversations from her past to create a novel filled with regret, anger, peace and finally love.
The novelNickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921435710269108498.post-5537988647922902502012-10-17T21:47:00.002-04:002012-10-17T21:53:42.411-04:00Museum showcases community diversity, history
GREEN BAY — A new exhibit at the Neville Public Museum of Brown County explores the arrival of the Hmong people in Wisconsin and their history as a culture.
“Who are the Hmong?” will be shown at the museum until May 26. It tells the Hmong story in four parts: ancient culture, as United States allies during the Vietnam War, as refugees after the war and as friends and neighbors in Wisconsin, Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921435710269108498.post-25703079250751607482012-10-17T21:45:00.000-04:002012-10-17T21:56:27.563-04:00Artist photographs Hmong-American experienceST. PAUL, Minn. — A new photography exhibit in St. Paul showcases the Hmong-American experience through the eyes of someone who, as a child, often felt smothered by her Hmong culture.
Pao Her has been described as a pioneer in the world of contemporary photography. This spring, Her became the first Hmong artist to receive an MFA from the prestigious Yale photography program. But, for the most Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921435710269108498.post-31290791510770059172012-09-26T15:30:00.000-04:002012-10-17T21:45:30.101-04:00Homegrown Medicine: Doctors return to help Hmong community
By YESENIA AMARO - yamaro@mercedsunstar.com
STENBERG/mstenberg@mercedsunstar.com Lesley Xiong M.D. does a routine medical check up on patient Ann Moua, Tuesday (09-18-2012) morning at the Dignity Health Medical Group, Merced on Mercy Avenue
MERCED -- Dr. Lesley Xiong and Dr. Lasley Xiong have finally made it back home to Merced -- this time for good.
The two Hmong sisters, Lesley, 31, andNickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921435710269108498.post-15472362414824311842012-09-18T15:17:00.002-04:002012-09-18T15:17:35.378-04:00Lia Lee dies; daughter of Hmong refugees changed American views of medicineFoua Yang crumpled in tears on the staircase in her south Sacramento home, just feet from the empty hospital bed where her daughter Lia Lee lived most of her life.
“I’m deeply saddened that Lia’s no longer of this world, I love her very much,” said Yang, clutching a picture of Ms. Lee as a lively 4-year-old in traditional Hmong finery, running from her mother.
Ms. Lee — who in July celebrated Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921435710269108498.post-79988529202403503952012-09-18T15:15:00.002-04:002012-09-18T15:17:50.865-04:00Life Went On Around Her, Redefining Care by Bridging a DivideIn 1988, when Anne Fadiman met Lia Lee, then 5, for the first time, she wrote down her impressions in four spare lines that now read like found poetry:
barefoot mother gently rocking silent child
diaper, sweater, strings around wrist
like a baby, but she’s so big
mother kisses and strokes her
The story of Lia, the severely brain-damaged daughter of Hmong refugees who had resettled in Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921435710269108498.post-84270521584631628092012-09-18T15:12:00.005-04:002012-09-18T15:12:59.661-04:00Vang Pao Elementary School is dedicated in S/E FresnoFRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A dedication ceremony Saturday celebrated Fresno Unified's newest campus, and the man it's named after.
Hundreds of members of the Hmong community gathered at Vang Pao Elementary School in Southeast Fresno to honor their late leader.
Some of his family members also traveled from Southern California to attend the event. General Vang Pao led Hmong troops in support of Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921435710269108498.post-25362363291613649512012-09-18T15:12:00.001-04:002012-09-18T15:12:24.150-04:00Tragedy and tradition inform Hmong couple’s grandparenting
Ue and Pha Vang (back) sit with their son Ethan, left, and grandkids Preston and Fina at their home in Onalaska. (Rory O'Driscoll/La Crosse Tribune)
Pha and Ue Vang maintain brave faces, smiling occasionally, as they talk about the challenges of raising three orphaned grandchildren.
But sporadically, pain peeks through their eyes as they chronicle their lives since their son-in-law, Dang Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921435710269108498.post-68561706263499324992012-09-18T15:10:00.003-04:002012-09-18T15:10:50.089-04:0015 people killed in northern Vietnam landslide
By TRAN VAN MINH
Associated Press
Published: Friday, Sep. 7, 2012 - 8:00 pm
HANOI, Vietnam -- Police say 15 villagers who were illegally taking tin ore from a mine in northern Vietnam have died in a landslide.
A police officer says the disaster occurred early Friday in Yen Bai province following hours of torrential rain as the villagers were collecting tin ore from a mine operated by a Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921435710269108498.post-65234295585080235022012-09-18T15:09:00.001-04:002012-09-18T15:09:05.315-04:00Minnesota witnesses a first ever Hmong-American delegate to the Democratic National Convention, being born in a refugee camp in Thailand but now living the American dreamOne of Minnesota’s delegates to the Democratic National Convention has a unique status, and a classic American story to tell.
Kaying Thao of Roseville is the nation’s only Hmong-American delegate.
“I can do all the reading I want on the process, but nothing compares to this. I feel so proud to be an American. I feel so proud to be a citizen. And I’m doing this for my kids,” said Thao, her Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921435710269108498.post-65739865232147913012012-09-18T15:08:00.000-04:002012-09-18T15:08:01.468-04:00Fresno Unified prepares to open Vang Pao Elementary FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- As Fresno Unified prepares to head back to school excitement is building around a new campus set to open for the first time in less than two weeks.
Among those waiting for the doors to open at Vang Pao Elementary at Heaton and Cedar, is the Hmong community, who until now has not had a school named after a Hmong leader.
As teachers move into their new classrooms at Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921435710269108498.post-43444746423559118832012-09-18T15:06:00.003-04:002012-09-18T15:06:33.388-04:00Turning swords into plowshares, and back againBy WALTER PINCUS
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — How long does it take for enemies to become allies, and allies to become enemies?
On July 3 in Hanoi, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton celebrated the 20th anniversary of that country's Fulbright exchange program, which has involved 8,000 American and Vietnamese students, scholars, educators and businesspeople.
Reading her talk Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921435710269108498.post-70150599753278050622012-06-24T12:36:00.001-04:002012-06-24T12:36:51.092-04:00Hmong pilots saluted in MaplewoodThe choice wasn't easy for the few young Hmong men all those decades ago. But it was clear: fly until death.
From 1967 to 1975, the CIA and the U.S. Air Force recruited and trained the Hmong in Laos mainly to pilot T-28 fighter planes used for counterinsurgency efforts. They flew alongside Americans during the Vietnam War fighting against North Vietnamese in Laos.
"The Hmong are not soldiers;Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921435710269108498.post-37489501128583577622012-06-02T13:34:00.003-04:002012-06-02T13:34:32.424-04:00Vang represents Hmong culture
Emily Vang, after she was crowned Miss Hmong, Oklahoma 2012 with her parents Nhia Chue Vang and Derx Vang. Submitted Photo
The title may not be as prestigious as Miss U.S.A or even Miss Oklahoma, but for Emily Vang, of Marble City, the title of Miss Hmong Oklahoma 2012 is every bit as important.
Vang was born in Wisconsin, but her parents Nhia Chue Vang and Derx Vang, came to the U.S. when Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921435710269108498.post-71502169827396968412012-05-25T13:54:00.003-04:002012-05-25T13:54:38.007-04:00US - Laos Policy, Memorial Events, Held in CongressNational veterans' memorial ceremonies and policy events are being held in Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Congress, to highlight the service, and ongoing plight, of Lao and Hmong veterans who served in Laos during the Vietnam War. Thousands of Laotian and Hmong-American veterans, and their refugee families from across America, are participating along with U.S. veterans of the Vietnam War.
Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921435710269108498.post-59423671963892031322012-05-25T13:21:00.003-04:002012-05-25T13:21:32.364-04:00Record earns first ever Hmong Association Fellowship AwardLA CROSSE, Wisconsin (WXOW) - From 6 to 8 a.m. every Sunday morning you will hear a different language being spoken on the WIZM-1410 radio station.
That's because the 2-hour program is entirely in Hmong.
Midwest Family Broadcasting Vice President Dick Record received the first ever Hmong Association Fellowship Award May 17.
Record advocated the creation of Hmong radio programming back in Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921435710269108498.post-79587885773024733972012-05-25T13:19:00.000-04:002012-05-25T13:19:46.998-04:00Solana Beach art exhibit sheds light on stories of Hmong tribal life
From left, Nancy Harmon, Roger Harmon, Irving Himelblau and Bob Montgomery stand in front of a Hmong story cloth. Photo: Claire Harlin
In the 1960s, the United States employed the tribal Hmong people to fight what’s now known as “The Secret War” in the highlands of Laos. And as the Southeast Asia conflict, which coincided with the Vietnam War, wound down in defeat for the native mountain Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921435710269108498.post-35799191062882842762012-05-25T13:14:00.000-04:002012-05-25T13:16:01.063-04:00Creating a Hmong Community Foundation
Lue Her
As part of his Archibald Bush Leadership fellowship, Lue Her has had an opportunity to visit with and learn from fellow Hmong-Americans around the country. Not surprisingly, he has found that complex issues continue to plague Hmong-American communities.
But he has been surprised to see that few in the community realize that many of the challenges facing its members could be addressed Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921435710269108498.post-68753079224707981052012-05-25T13:13:00.000-04:002012-05-25T13:13:09.008-04:00Traditional Hmong Healers Learning to Partner With Valley Doctors
A Hmong shaman blesses a young pregnant woman in rural Merced.
Thousands of Hmong refugees settled in the Central Valley in the 1970s and like most immigrants, they brought their own traditions with them. Back home, the Hmong were more likely to see a shaman than a doctor when they got sick and that has presented something of a challenge for health care professionals here in California. A Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921435710269108498.post-71761390750201173182012-05-04T10:27:00.000-04:002012-05-04T10:27:02.628-04:00Comedy show gives Hmong culture lesson
Tou Ger Xiong expresses the struggles of being an immigrant. Xiong said one of his biggest struggles was having parents who didn’t speak English
Mixing the immigrant experience with Hmong culture, Tou Ger Xiong presented an entertaining and eye-opening comedy show to the UW Oshkosh community April 19.
“I, like many Hmong children, did not know the story of Hmong people, so one day I Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921435710269108498.post-45720875608090368582012-04-27T19:38:00.003-04:002012-04-27T19:38:22.500-04:00Hmong ceremony offered for mayorNao Shoua Xiong of Wausau, a Hmong shaman and a statewide clan leader, will hold a blessing ceremony for Wausau Mayor Jim Tipple as Tipple begins his third term.
The event, which is open to the public, will be held at 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Saturday at Xiong’s home, 1204 Rosecrans St. The event also will include food, drink and a social time.
Xiong said the ceremony will symbolize how the Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921435710269108498.post-73955479495862671182012-04-27T19:37:00.005-04:002012-04-27T19:37:39.175-04:00History of the Farmers' MarketThe Dane County Farmers' Market stands as a connection between Madison and the farms that surround it
By: Sarah Karon
It was just after midnight in 1972, and Jim Barnard was steering a refrigerated box truck down Wisconsin’s craggy peninsula. Fruit from his Door County farm packed the truck: Cinderella plums, Seckel pears, totes brimming with Cortland and Macintosh apples. The drive to Madison Nickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921435710269108498.post-80036187545933651222012-04-21T22:54:00.001-04:002012-04-21T22:55:20.925-04:00Weaving Hmong culture through literacy
Every culture has a different story to tell that builds America into the melting pot it is today. Students throughout Stevens Point elementary schools are getting a unique taste of these tales that promote literacy and culture.
The UW-Stevens Point Student Education Association (StWEA) received a $1,000 Community Learning Through America’s Schools (CLASS) Grant, which funded Hmong literacyNickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17535320732377404085noreply@blogger.com0