“It’s hard for me to believe,” Moua said. The Hmong culture has many superstitions, passed down from generation to generation, that still influence the way many people live their lives on a daily ...

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Louisa Schein, anthropologist from Rutgers, N.J, has spent thirty years studying the Hmong culture in the United States and China and will speak on the subject on Feb. 18. Schein will be accompanied ...

3-18). Minneapolis, MN: Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota. Yang, K. (1997). Hmong men’s adaptation to life in the United States. Hmong Studies Journal, 1(2), 1-22. Yang, K ...

According to Mr Chai Khue Xiong, a Hmong Australian elder who has known and practised Hmong culture for decades says, there are many believes in regards to the significant of colours toward Hmong ...

A Memoir of My Father” by Kao Kalia Yang was the book selected for the fifth annual One Book, One Community program. The first program, “Hmong 101: The Cultural ...

But 11-year-old Irene Her stands in front of the classroom, confidently weaving Hmong words together to talk about the “lub vab,” a basket tool used in the Southeast Asian culture. Irene is among the ...

This ritual, a cornerstone of traditional Hmong courtship, involves young men and women facing each ... “This is not cheating. It’s culture.” I pivoted to my daughters, suggesting they ...

Roughly midway along their current cultural swathe, the Hmong have historically populated the Lao uplands in the northern part of the country. In the 1970s, after the “secret war” in Laos ...

and Hmong Cultural Center Museum and Resource Center Library; meanwhile, St. Paul’s fellow “twin city” of Minneapolis ranks fourth of the list of most populous Hmong American communities.

In his photo essay, Bosoni turns his lens on the younger Hmong generation as they navigate keeping up traditions in a modern world. Cultural preservation runs through these pages. For our cover ...