HIT: SEC: Hmong culture

[Jennifer Smith <SMIJE@PDC.K12.WI.US>]

Thanks to the many people who sent information.  I will also be checking =
the library holdings for local areas with large Hmong populations.  Thanks =
again.

Jennifer

Websites:
http://www.hmongnet.org/=20
http://www.gvhs.muhsd.k12.ca.us/hmong/hmong.htm=20
(from http://www.ecb.org/wisconsin/people.htm)=20

Books:
"The spirit catches you and you fall down" by Anne Fadiman.  It is the =
story of a Hmong family in California, but it also talks about the Hmong =
culture and the problems they've had since coming to  the US.=20

Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, The Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos =
by Jane Hamilton-Merritt

I Begin My Life All Over: The Hmong and the American Immigrant Experience. =
=3D
 Lillian Faderman and Ghia Xiong

Hmong: History of a People.  Keith Quincy

Hmong Means Free: Life in Laos and America.  Sucheng Chan, ed.

The Hmong, 1987-1995.  J. Christina Smith, ed.

The Hmong: Yesterday and Today (Shen's)

The Sky is Falling: An Oral History of the CIA's Evacuation of the Hmong =
=3D
from Laos.  Gayle L. Morrison

The Changing Lives of Refugee Hmong Women.  Nancy D. Donnelly

An Introduction to the Hmong (Shen's)

The Hmong (Shen's)

American Immigrant Cultures, pub. Macmillan, has 11 pages on Hmong.  Might =
be a good place to start.




Jennifer M. Smith
Library Media Specialist
Prairie du Chien High School
Prairie du Chien, WI
(608)326-8437; ext. 4125
smije@pdc.k12.wi.us

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