hmong (asian people)

Offers a brief introduction to the history and culture of the Hmong people of Southeast Asia.

After ten years in a refugee camp in Thailand, thirteen-year-old Mai Yang travels to Providence, Rhode Island, where her Americanized cousins introduce her to pizza, shopping, and beer, while her grandmother and new friends keep her connected to her Hmong heritage.

Provides an overview of the history and culture of the Hmong, a people whose ancestors are known to have lived in China for over four thousand years, discussing their thought and religion, oral and written literature, arts, space and housing, traditional dress and cuisine, leisure, lifestyles, and social organization.

A young girl in a Thai refugee camp finds the story within herself to create her own pa'ndau.

Provides an introduction to the language, customs, and culture of the Hmong people of Southeast Asia.

Describes life at a refugee camp, Ban Vinai, in Thailand for the Hmong people.

After the upheaval of the Vietnam War reaches them, twelve-year-old Kia and her Hmong family flee from the mountains of Laos to a refugee camp in Thailand and eventually to the alien world of Saint Paul, Minnesota.

The story cloth made for her by her aunt and uncle chronicles the life of the author and her family in their native Laos and their eventual emigration to the United States.

Interpretations of the oral folk stories of the Hmong people, with photographs of the native dress and the story depicted on the pa ndau story cloth.