STEVENS POINT – A new year-long elective class aimed at helping Hmong students connect to their heritage launched this year at Stevens Point Area Senior High. The class is focused on teaching students ...

Principal Jeff DeGallier could see he had a challenging situation months ago. John Muir Elementary in Kirkland is home to a diverse population. Nineteen percent of the students are Hmong, many of them ...

WAUSAU - Sia Yang didn't have a lot of time to learn English or earn a high school diploma after she immigrated to the Wausau area from Laos in 2002. "I'm so busy," the 29-year-old mother of five ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Students are leaning into learning more about the Hmong and Khmer cultures and languages. The pages of books are coming to life in Padao Thoa's class this summer. Students are ...

Fifteen Hmong Educators earned their Minnesota K-12 World Languages & Cultures teaching license with an emphasis on Hmong language and culture from Concordia College in Moorhead. CATHY WURZER: You ...

“The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father” by Kao Kalia Yang was the book selected for the fifth annual One Book, One Community program. The first program, “Hmong 101: The Cultural Background,” will take ...

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Yia Vang has a set of classic stories he loves to tell. He's just told me the one about the guy who comes up after a Hmong cooking demonstration, cups Vang's big right hand in both of his, looks up ...

A Hmong shaman blesses a pregnant woman so that she will have a safe birth. (Photo: Shuka Kalantari) A Hmong shaman dressed in an ornate red and pink costume is standing in a crowded living room in ...