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As an undergraduate she decided to be a historian once realizing little Hmong history was recorded. [9] In 1994 she graduated Carleton College as a Cowling Scholar with a major in East Asian History and a concentration in Women's Studies. She earned a master's degree in 2000 and a doctorate in history from University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2005.
Hmong women worked as housekeepers, child-bearers and caretakers, cooks, and tailors, and were responsible for making all of their families’ clothes and preparing all meals. Women also planted, harvested, and cleared fields with their husbands, carried water from the river, tended to the animals, and helped build their own houses and furniture.
For a small village, it takes 3–5 days. Hmong New Year celebration itself consists to tossing balls, wearing colorful clothings, singing Hmong tradition poem songs. Colorful fabrics mean a lot of things in Hmong history and culture. This is very important to Hmong men and women because the New Year only comes once a year.
“If history isn’t documented, then it’s forgotten,” a librarian involved in creating Fresno State’s Hmong history repository said. Hmong culture in 1960s war-torn Laos documented by ...
The Hmong Archives, formerly known as Hmong Nationality Archives, is a nonprofit organization located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States with the mission to research, collect, preserve, interpret, and disseminate materials in all formats about or by Hmong.
SHEBOYGAN – A South High alum won the 2024 Miss Asian Global Pageant, becoming the first Hmong woman to claim the title in the competition’s nearly 40-year history.. Raine Xiong, 19, was among ...
Chia Youyee Vang is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.Her research and writing deals with the Hmong diaspora, other Southeast Asian diasporas and refugees and on community-building efforts among Hmong people in the United States.
For the annual fall renewal of her shaman spirit, Mee Vang Yang will soon ritually redecorate the tall altar in her living room where she keeps her father’s ring-shaped shaman bells. “Like ...