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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:
- Yan's family are Karen refugees from Burma. He was born in Thailand but he and his mother immigrated to the US when he was very young. He was raised in St. Paul, Minnesota for most of his life and he feels very Minnesotan.
- Creator:
- Naung, Yan; Yi, Kevin
- Created:
- 2014-03-20 - 2014-06-20
- 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:
- Vongsavanh Boutsavath was born in Laos in 1936. He was the General Commissioner for Rural Affairs of the Royal Lao Government from 1966 to 1973. He was also a lecturer at the Royal Institute of Law and Administration of the Sisavong University from 1968 to 1973. From 1973 to 1975, he served as a senator in the Kingdom of Laos. After the communis...
- Creator:
- Boutsavath, Vongsavanh
- Contributor:
- Venditto, Elizabeth (Editor)
- Created:
- 2015-04
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- Sengchanh (Tony) Manivanh 1960 was born in Vientiane, Laos in 1960. As a young man, he worked across Laos but was ultimately forced to leave his village, so he crossed the Mekong River into Thailand, where he lived in a refugee camp for two years. He resettled in the United States with the help of a sponsor in Michigan, but he resettled in Minne...
- Creator:
- Manivanh, Molly
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- Vongsay is an award-winning poet and playwright. Her critically acclaimed play Kung Fu Zombies vs Cannibals was named “Best Production of 2013” by L’etoile Magazine. Her work has been made possible with support from organizations as the Jerome Foundation, the Joyce foundation, MRAC, and MSAB. She has a show on MPR called “The Interpretor”.
- Creator:
- Vongsay, Saymoukda
- Contributor:
- Yang, Mai (Editor)
- Created:
- 2015
- 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:
- His family became refugees after the civil war in Laos. They spent two and a half years in refugee camps in Thailand, undergoing countless medical exams, before finally being resettled in the United States in 1986. He lived in Sacramento, CA and College Park, GA before moving to Minnesota, where he grew up. He holds a B.A. in Anthropology and...
- Creator:
- Ratsabout, Saengmany
- Created:
- 2013
- 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:
- 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:
- Maia Lee was born in Laos, in the city of Long Cheng in November 1965. In May of 1975, Maia’s father had decided it was time to leave because of the imminent danger to their family. In August of 1978, Maia and her family arrived in the United States via airplane. They flew into the Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport. She was 12 at that time and spoke ...
- Creator:
- Jacques, David
- Created:
- 2017-12-07
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- Lue was born in 1945 in Xiangnan, Zieng Khouang, Laos. He fought against the communists in the "Secret War" in Laos. When the communists took over the country, he left and came to the United States in 1979.
- Creator:
- Lee, Lue
- 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:
- Kaochi Pha’s family was forced to flee Laos because of the Secret War. Her parents met in Ban Vinai refugee camp in Thailand and married in 1988. Her parents moved from Ban Vinai to Wisconsin, where her uncle lived, in 1993. Kaochi was the first US-born child in her family. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota and is a student at the University o...
- Creator:
- Pha, Kaochi
- Created:
- 2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
- Description:
- Jonathan Shia Yang (Jonathan Siab Yaj) was born in Fresno, CA in 1991 and moved to St. Paul, Minnesota in 1996, where he grew up. He graduated from Bethel University in 2014 with a degree in Reconciliation.
- Creator:
- Yang, Jonathan
- Contributor:
- Venditto, Elizabeth (Editor)
- Created:
- 2015-05
- Contributed By:
- University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
- Last Updated:
- 2021-01-26
