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Hmong Americans are the largest Asian ethnic group in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. [3] [4] Allies of the United States in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War and later stages of the Laotian Civil War, they started seeking asylum as political refugees after the communist takeover in both nations in 1975, including the Hmong genocide in Laos.
Mary Thao, first Hmong woman elected to office in Wisconsin. Mayyer Thao, appointed as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority by Governor Tony Evers. Mee Moua, Minnesota State Senator [10] Megan Khang, first Hmong professional golfer, started playing golf at 5 1/2 yrs old, from Massachusetts [11]
A Hmong theologian, Rev. Dr. Paul Joseph T. Khamdy Yang has proposed the use of the term "HMong" in reference to the Hmong and the Mong communities by capitalizing the H and the M. The ethnologist Jacques Lemoine has also begun to use the term (H)mong in reference to the entirety of the Hmong and Mong communities.
The U.S. Census Bureau's 2019 American Community Survey estimates Wisconsin's Hmong population at more than 58,000.
Outraged in the mid-2000s after a series of domestic violence-related homicides of Hmong women in Wisconsin, Khang challenged the clan system to change its treatment of survivors.
Evers signed the bill at an elementary school in Wausau, a Wisconsin town where Hmong residents make up 12% of the population and Asian American students comprise 29.7% of the school’s student body.
On the weekend of the shootings, Vang went out deer hunting with two friends and their two sons in northwest Wisconsin, a region where deer hunting is particularly popular, east of Birchwood, Wisconsin around the town of Meteor. Meteor extends over a large sparsely populated area. The land in the area is a mix of public and private.
Moderator Panhia Thao of 9to5 Wisconsin asked questions drawn from residents who rely on the resource groups in order to put the candidates' focus on Green Bay's Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native ...