'The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival' by Lisa Hamilton was translated into Hmong and turned into an audiobook for Hmong speakers who can't read the language. EMILY BRIGHT: If you ...

NK Xiong grew up in Green Bay knowing her family’s refugee story. Her parents documented almost every part of it through pictures and the family’s camcorder. But she didn’t know much about her culture ...

Mai Tia Yang was just 5 years old when she was relocated from Laos to the U.S. after the end of the Secret War – a war that took so much from her. She doesn’t recall much of the conflict, as she was ...

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Fifty years ago, Hmong people first arrived in Minnesota as refugees from the wars of Southeast Asia. In their Laotian homeland, they were earmarked for destruction for having aided the U.S. side in ...