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Interview With Pa Sher Yang, Peter Chou Vang
Interview With Pa Sher Yang, Peter Chou Vang
Hmong Oral History Project
Interview with Pa Sher Yang discussing his experiences during the "Secret War" in Laos in the mid-1960s to early 1970s as well as refugee resettlement in Thailand and the United States.
Interview conducted by student interviewer, Peter Chou Vang; translated and transcribed by Mai Vang.
Interview With Kao Kalia Yang, Paul Hillmer
Interview With Kao Kalia Yang, Paul Hillmer
Hmong Oral History Project
Kao Kalia Yang was born in Ban Vinai refugee camp and came with her family to Minnesota in July 1987, when she was six years old. Attending school in St. Paul and graduating from Harding High School, Yang was accepted at Carleton College in Northfield, MN, and went on to earn an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia University. In 2008 Coffee House Press published her memoir, The Latehomecomer, which tells the story of her family in Laos, the refugee camps of Thailand, and their new life in Minnesota. Central to this story is Yang’s grandmother, who embodies the …