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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.
Gov. Tony Evers signed Executive Order #224, ordering American flags and the Wisconsin state flag to be flown at half-staff on Tuesday, May 14, in honor of Hmong-Lao Veterans Day.
When their village fell to the Communists, Xiong and his family fled to a refugee camp in Thailand and eventually ended up in Wisconsin in 1980. In 1996, Xiong was elected to the Eau Claire, Wisconsin, city council. Xiong was the first Hmong to be elected to a city council in Wisconsin. He ran for the state Assembly in 2004.
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.
Today, cash cropping is the main economic activity. As in China and Laos, Hmong participate to a certain degree in local and regional administration. [ 95 ] In the late 1990s, several thousands of Hmong started moving to the Central Highlands and some crossed the border into Cambodia , constituting the first attested presence of Hmong settlers ...
The U.S. Census Bureau's 2019 American Community Survey estimates Wisconsin's Hmong population at more than 58,000. How did Hmong people find their way to Wisconsin? The answer has roots in ...
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.
In an unofficial tally from news coverage and advocacy group reports, Wisconsin Watch counted 20 Wisconsin homicide cases since 1990 in which Hmong men have killed their intimate partners and, in ...