Hmong
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Derrick’s friend, Pam Jacobson, 69, noted that even in her predominantly-white suburb, Lino Lakes—some 30 miles outside the city—ICE agents had turned up in search of her Hmong neighbor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026
Last year, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers signed a bill into law mandating Hmong American and Asian American studies in K through 12th-grade schooling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2024
Cambodian, Laotian, Vietnamese and Hmong refugees are “the human legacies of the wars in which the U.S. was implicated.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2024
During the Vietnam War and unbeknownst to the American public, the CIA recruited Lao and Hmong people to fight the spread of communism throughout Southeast Asia.
From Seattle Times ● May 27, 2024
More than 100,000 Miao-speaking refugees from Vietnam have carried this language family to the United States, where they are better known under the alternative name of Hmong.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Her family resettled in St. Paul, Minn. — home to the highest concentration of Hmongs living in the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2024
Fadiman shows great respect for the Hmongs and their culture, devoting alternate chapters to their beliefs and history, without ever pretending that their folk cures did Lia any good.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2019
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