This Is Home: The Hmong in Minnesota - Hard Work

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March 8, 1999
Lynette Nyman - Reporter, Pakou - Interviewee, Yer Vue - Interviewee, Ilean Her - Interviewee, Jeremy Hein - Interviewee, Vu Xiong - Interviewee
Listen: This Is Home Part 1 - Hard Work, Hmong tragedies highlight community
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MPR’s Lynette Nyman presents a series titled “This Is Home: The Hmong in Minnesota.” In this part, Nyman profiles the history of the Hmong people, their journey to the United States, and the life of one Hmong American family in Saint Paul.

THE 150,000 HMONG PEOPLE living in the United States traveled thousands of difficult miles to get here. Many settled in St. Paul, Minnesota, giving it the largest urban Hmong population in the world. Today these Hmong are wrestling with issues of culture and identity, with maintaining ties to the past and seeking to thrive in modern urban America.

This is part one of four-part series "This Is Home: The Hmong in Minnesota"

Click links below for other parts of series:

part 2: https://archive.mpr.org/stories/1999/03/09/this-is-home-the-hmong-in-minnesota-leading-the-people

part 3: https://archive.mpr.org/stories/1999/03/10/this-is-home-the-hmong-in-minnesota-sew-it-right

part 4: https://archive.mpr.org/stories/1999/03/11/this-is-home-the-hmong-in-minnesota-going-home

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