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 ...

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 ...

When Katie Ka Vang was young and her family was still adjusting to life in America, her sisters used to frequent an Indian grocery store next to the Laundromat where their parents would drop them off.

St. Paul Mayor-elect Kaohly Her is making strides in the Hmong community. She won the St. Paul’s mayoral election with an upset victory, becoming the first female and Hmong mayor of St. Paul. Her is ...

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 ...

Inside Look is a Fresno Bee series where we take readers behind the scenes at restaurants, new businesses, local landmarks and news stories. In 2018, parents from southeast Fresno’s vibrant Hmong ...

They left their villages in the mountains of Laos more than 50 years ago to train as nurses in a secret war, forever shattering boundaries for Hmong women. Those pioneers were honored last weekend at ...