When my son was born almost two years ago, we held a small hu plig or “soul-calling” ceremony to welcome his spirit to the ...

I knew straight away that this had to be my thesis film. The prospect of meeting a Hmong shaman who would share his life on camera was exhilarating. Immediately, I began filming different families ...

Kao Kalia Yang, a Hmong-American writer who lives in St. Paul, made Minnesota Book Award history Tuesday when she won awards in three categories at the 2025 Minnesota Book Awards ceremony at the ...

The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library has announced the winners of the 2025 Minnesota Book Awards, presented this year by sponsor Education Minnesota. In addition to winners in ten categories, ...

We don't have our own country. We have our own language. Hmong, I guess the best way I can say it is we're not a place. We are a people. A lot of Hmong history, you know, they were written in ...

But she didn’t know much about her culture’s history: the Hmong culture. Hmong people helped the United States in the fight against communism during the Vietnam War. After the war ended ...

At museums in the Twin Cities, where Hmong families settled after a Vietnam proxy war in Laos, story cloths and other artifacts recount their history. By Alex V. Cipolle Reporting from Minneapolis ...

Manvir Singh’s new Shamanism: The Timeless Religion ranges widely, introducing us to all sorts of shamans and neo-shamans and proto-shamans. We meet the cigarette-loving tribal healers among the ...

NEENAH (WLUK) -- Students in the Fox Valley are immersing themselves in Hmong music as part of a cultural exchange activity. It's in honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage ...

MADISON (WKOW) -- Wisconsin's new Legislative Asian Caucus is honoring Hmong-Lao Veterans Day on the 50th anniversary of when refugees began fleeing Laos and emigrating to the U.S. State legislators ...