ST. PAUL -- Yer Xiong lives a quiet life in her tiny clapboard house, with her eight bilingual children, posters of Laotian cities and Hmong newspapers a link to the past. Her respect for tradition is ...

Talking about the journey from their homeland in Laos to the United States and the struggles her family faced once they got here still brings tears to Sarah Yang’s eyes. The Yang family - Paul, left, ...

Yang, 17, is one of 21 girls and five boys whose stories have drawn new attention to the plight of the Hmong, an ethnic minority. Their families first fled Laos in 2004 for an informal refugee ...

“The Hmong died in Laos, fighting for the American people. They put their lives on the line and saved the American downed pilots.” Ntsuab Pai Kong remembers the sounds — the gunshots nearly every ...

Thailand plans to deport all Hmong refugees in the country to Laos by year-end. *Nick Harvey* reports on the precarious position of the Hmong people, both inside Laos and in the bleak refugee camps of ...

Forty years ago, the first group of Hmong immigrants left their homes and families in Southeast Asia for an uncertain future in the United States. Desperate to escape persecution in the aftermath of ...

As Trump attempts to dismantle the resettlement program, the city of Wausau is a microcosm of the challenges and opportunities that come from welcoming refugees The harrowing journey Nou Vang Thao ...

FRESNO — It’s been decades since Gen. Vang Pao saw combat, but many in the sizable Hmong community here still reverently refer to him as “the General.” Straining to explain to outsiders how shaken ...

Paul Aleckson, project coordinator ; Anne Jagodzinski, James Kegel, editors. "The D.C. Everest Hmong Oral History Project ... has been prepared by staff and students from D.C. Everest Junior and ...