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- Description:
- Yeng was born in Moos Manj, Laos. She and her family fled across the Mekong River into Thailand after the communist takeover of Laos. She lived in Nong Khai and Ban Vinai Camps in Thailand. She has 10 surviving children, 11 in total. She emigrated in 1988 to America.
- Creator:
- Xiong, Yeng
- Contributor:
- Yang, Mai (Editor, Translator)
- Created:
- 2014-09-22 - 2014-12-21
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- Xia Phia Yang was born in Laos into a family of 12. His family fled to Thailand in 1979. They lived in the Ban Vinai refugee camp until 1992, and there he went to school, worked as a nurse and a public health worker, and started a family of his own. His family was transferred to the Phanat Nikhon camp after Ban Vinai closed, and they lived there...
- Creator:
- Yang, Xai Phia
- Contributor:
- Yang, Mai (Editor, Translator)
- Created:
- 2015-03
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- Va was born in Phanat Nikhom refugee camp in Chonburi, Thailand in 1994. The next year his family came to the United States. He has seven brothers and two sisters. In 2014, he was a sophomore at the University of Minnesota. As a youth, he had an active social life, participated in school sports, spent time with his family, and regularly celebra...
- Creator:
- Xiong, Va
- Created:
- 2014-03-20 - 2014-06-20
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- Vang Thao was born in Vang Vieng, Laos and moved to Vientiane, Laos in 1979. In 1993, Vang and his family went to Wat Tham Krabok refugee camp in Saraburi, Thailand, where several of his children were born. The family came to the United States in 2004.
- Creator:
- Thao, Vang
- Created:
- 2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- Thong Vang was born in Laos. He moved Muang Cha, Laos for middle school; Phon Hong for high school, and he obtained a physician assistance degree from a university in Vientiane. Thong moved to St. Paul, Minnesota in 2007 to be with his family. His father had worked for the CIA and he had to leave the country when Thong was in middle school.
- Creator:
- Vang, Thong
- Created:
- 2015-04
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- Teng's family members were refugees who fled to Thailand after the communist takeover of Laos. Teng was born in a refugee camp in Thailand. His family emigrated from Thailand to Minnesota in 1988. His family brought very little with them, but they did have a bag of immigration documents, including their I-94 cards to enter the United States. ...
- Creator:
- Lee, Teng
- Created:
- 2014-03-20 - 2014-06-20
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- Steven Yang is an undergraduate student at the University of Minnesota.
- Creator:
- Yang, Steven
- Created:
- 2015-09-22 - 2015-12-21
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- Song Vue was born in Laos in 1934. After the communist victory in Laos in 1975, Song, her husband, children, and many relatives fled to the jungles and later to Thailand, where they arrived in May 1979. She and her family lived in Thai refugee camps for more than a decade before coming to the United States in 1992-93.
- Creator:
- Vue, Song
- Contributor:
- Yang, Mai (Editor, Translator)
- Created:
- 2015-03
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- Shue-Qa's father and mother emigrated from Laos to Thailand and then to the U.S. in 1976. Shue-Qa was born in California and now lives in Minnesota.
- Creator:
- Moua, Shue-Qa
- Created:
- 2014-06
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- Sheng Yang was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1995. Her parents were Hmong refugees who lived in a Thai refugee camp following the Secret War in Laos before resettling in the United States in 1992. Sheng studied at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
- Creator:
- Yang, Sheng
- Created:
- 2017-05-02
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- Sengchan Thao was born in Laos. She met her husband, a Hmong American from Minnesota, when he was visiting Laos. They got engaged and she came to the United States in 2007 to marry him.
- Creator:
- Thao, Sengchan
- Created:
- 2015-01
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- Sai Va Yang fought in the Vietnam War from 1967 to 1975 with General Vang Pao. After the overthrow of the Lao government by communist troops in 1975 Sai Va fled with his family across the Mekong River and lived in Pua, Thailand until 1970. On July 10, 1979, Sai Va, his wife Kia Thao, his son (and Sheree's father) Tou, and his daughter Yee came...
- Creator:
- Yang, Sai Va
- Contributor:
- Yang, Sheree (Editor)
- Created:
- 2014-03-20 - 2014-06-20
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- Pa Houa Thao was born in Thailand in 1989. Her parents had migrated from Laos to Thailand during the Vietnam War and the family lived in a Thai refugee camp. She came to the United States as refugee in 2004 and settled in Minnesota.
- Creator:
- Thao, Pa
- Created:
- 2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- PaDao Vang was born in Laos in 1978. Her family moved to Thailand in 1980 because of war, and they lived in Ban Vinai refugee camp until they resettled in California in 1989. She received her associate's degree from Anoka-Ramsey Community College and continued her education at Metropolitan State University. She and her family live in Minnesota.
- Creator:
- Vang, Ricky
- Created:
- 2016-12-14
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- Nelsie Yang was born in Minnesota, USA in 1995. Her parents were Hmong refugees who came to the United States because of the Secret War in Laos. Her experiences of racism in the United States and discrimination she observed as a study abroad student in Thailand led her to become active in political and social justice movements in Minnesota.
- Creator:
- Erin Gilbertson
- Created:
- 2016-12-20
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- Moua Kong Vue is an educator, artist, and community organizer. Born in Crescent City, CA in 1990, he was raised in Seattle, WA and studied at Concordia University in St. Paul.
- Creator:
- Vue, Moua Kong
- Contributor:
- Yang, Mai (Editor)
- Created:
- 2015-04
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- Mor was born in Laos. Her husband joined the "Secret War" in Laos against the communists. Her husband, her children, and her grandson were killed. Mor arrived in the United States in 1978.
- Creator:
- Lee , Mor
- Contributor:
- Yang, Mai (Editor, Translator)
- Created:
- 2014-09-22 - 2014-12-21
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- Manichan was born in Muang Cha, Laos. She is the daughter of Zam Va Yang and the wife of Colonel Shong Leng Xiong. She is a survivor of the Secret War in Laos. Her family helped American soldiers during the war, and she lost her grandfather after helping an American pilot. Manichan arrived in U.S. in 1993.
- Creator:
- Xiong, Manichan
- Contributor:
- Yang, Mai (Editor, Translator)
- Created:
- 2014-09-22 - 2014-12-21
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- Mai Xiong was born in Laos in 1960. She and her family were displaced by war several times. She met and married her husband in Vang Vieng, Laos, and they later moved to refugee camps Thailand to escape further violence in Laos before resettling in the United States.
- Creator:
- Lee, Mua
- Created:
- 2017-05-01
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- Mai Vang was born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she graduated from Johnson High School in 2001. She earned a B.A. in Anthropology and Womens Studies with a minor in Asian American Studies from the University of Minnesota in 2005. She attended graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she studied Anthropology and ...
- Creator:
- Vang, Mai
- Created:
- 2020-03
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
