Hmong In America Journey From A Secret War
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Hmong In America Journey From A Secret War
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Author : Tim Pfaff
language : en
Publisher: Chippewa Valley Museum
Release Date : 1995
Hmong In America Journey From A Secret War written by Tim Pfaff and has been published by Chippewa Valley Museum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
"In 1961, U.S. President Kennedy sent CIA operatives into northern Laos to recruit a secret army to fight communist forces in Laos and Vietnam. For fifteen years, Hmong highlanders attacked the Ho Chi Minh Trail, guarded U.S. radar installations, and acted as the frontline defense of Laos. In 1975 the Americans withdrew. Thousands of Hmong families fled to Thailand. After months or years in refugee camps, most resettled in the United States. There they faced the imposing challenge of starting a new life in a highly industrialized, technology-driven society with radically different cultural values and practices."--Back cover.
Whispering Death Tuag Nco Ntsoov
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Author : Robert Curry
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2004
Whispering Death Tuag Nco Ntsoov written by Robert Curry and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Whispering Death is a shattering account of an eighteen-year-old aviator from the streets of America to Vietnam, into the Macomb world of a Secret War run by the CIA, fought with clandestine forces, the Hmong hill people, and a vast and varied air armada. "I highly recommend this book to be read for knowledge of how the Secret War in Laos was fought and why we owe the Hmong so much." Brigadier General Harry C. Aderholt, USAF, Ret. "A superb tale of aviation adventure in the combat skies of Southeast Asia woven with extraordinary skill. This is a gripping, personal story from a new perspective. A must-read for fans of military aviation during the Vietnam War era." Larry Sanborn-Raven FAC-call sign: Sandy "Whispering Death is one of the most comprehensive and fascinating books ever written about America's most covert war. It embodies the desperate fight for freedom these Americans and Hmong faced together, bound as eternal brothers and sisters. And in the end how an American government left my people to die alone." Yang Chee, President, Lao-Hmong American Coalition
The Making Of Hmong America
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Author : Kou Yang
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2017-10-05
The Making Of Hmong America written by Kou Yang and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-05 with Social Science categories.
This study documents Hmong’s involvement in the Secret War in Laos, their refugee exodus from Laos to the refugee camps in Thailand, and the challenges to find third countries to take Hmong refugees. At the time, Hmong and other highlander refugees from Laos were considered unsuitable to be resettled into the United States. He provides detailed research on the adaptation of Hmong Americans to their new lives in the United States, facing discrimination and prejudice, and the advancement of Hmong Americans over the past 40 years. He presents the Hmong American community as an uprooted refugee community that grew from a small population in 1975 to more than 300,000 by the year 2015; spreading to all 50 states while becoming a diverse and complex American ethnic community. To get better insight into their diversity, complexity, and adaptation to different localities, Kou Yang uses the Hmong communities in Montana, Fresno and Denver as case studies. The progress of Hmong Americans over the past 4 decades is highlighted with a list of many achievements in education, high-tech, academia, political participation, the military and other fields. Readers of this book will gain a deeper understanding of the challenges, complex and diverse experience of the Hmong American community. They will also obtain insight into the overall experience of the Hmong, an ethnic people of Diaspora, found in Asia, the Americas, Africa, Australia, and Europe. They are like bristle-cone pines on the rock that have been exposed to all types of weather, climate and conditions, but they won't die.
Hmong In America
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Author : Chippewa Valley Museum (Eau Claire, Wis.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Hmong In America written by Chippewa Valley Museum (Eau Claire, Wis.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Hmong (Asian people) categories.
Out Of Laos
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Author : Roger Warner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-10
Out Of Laos written by Roger Warner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10 with categories.
Out of Laos is the epic story of the Hmong tribe's key role in a secret American war on the other side of the world. It's a grand, sweeping saga, like a movie in book form, told through hundreds of previously-unpublished photos and masterpieces of tribal folk art. The Hmong, the CIA's most trusted allies in Laos during the Vietnam War era, were a hardy, highly spiritual people who lived in remote mountain villages, used shamans for healing, and lacked an alphabet -- but learned Western skills with astonishing speed. Young women became skilled hospital nurses, freeing them from the drudgery of farm work; and young men learned to fly propeller-driven warplanes. Valiant in combat, trusted by all the Americans they worked with, they came to the U.S. after their war ended the wrong way. The Hmong are U.S. citizens now, and their population is bigger than any Native American tribe except the Navajo. Produced and edited by a prize-winning historian of the Laos war (Roger Warner's Shooting At The Moon won the Overseas Press Club's book-of-the-year award) Out of Laos uses a documentary-like format. Gorgeously printed in full color, with a hard cover and sewn bindings that open easily, it is deliberately small in page size (to keep costs down) but 512 pages thick. Turn a page, and you typically see a carefully curated photograph or masterpiece of Hmong folk art filling up an entire spread, with just enough narrative text to provide insight and context. Carefully curated by a talented historian, Out of Laos is a mind-blowing origin story, as accessible as any graphic novel or adventure movie ? and it's true. This is a revelatory book, a slice of U.S. history that few Americans - except Hmong-Americans - knew anything about. Until now.
Hmong And American
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Author : Vincent K. Her
language : en
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Release Date : 2012
Hmong And American written by Vincent K. Her and has been published by Minnesota Historical Society Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Social Science categories.
Farmers in Laos, U.S. allies during the Vietnam War, refugees in Thailand, citizens of the Western world, the stories of the Hmong who now live in America have been told in detail through books and articles and oral histories over the past several decades. Like any immigrant group, members of the first generation may yearn for the past as they watch their children and grandchildren find their way in the dominant culture of their new home. For Hmong people born and educated in the United States, a definition of self often includes traditional practices and tight-knit family groups but also a distinctly Americanized point of view. How do Hmong Americans negotiate the expectations of these two very different cultures? This book contains a series of essays featuring a range of writing styles, leading scholars, educators, artists, and community activists who explore themes of history, culture, gender, class, family, and sexual orientation, weaving their own stories into depictions of a Hmong American community where people continue to develop complex identities that are collectively shared but deeply personal as they help to redefine the multicultural America of today.
Perilous Journey
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Author : Tou Her
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-02
Perilous Journey written by Tou Her and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02 with categories.
A Great Place To Have A War
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Author : Joshua Kurlantzick
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2017-01-24
A Great Place To Have A War written by Joshua Kurlantzick and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-24 with History categories.
The untold story of how America’s secret war in Laos in the 1960s transformed the CIA from a loose collection of spies into a military operation and a key player in American foreign policy. January, 1961: Laos, a tiny nation few Americans have heard of, is at risk of falling to communism and triggering a domino effect throughout Southeast Asia. This is what President Eisenhower believed when he approved the CIA’s Operation Momentum, creating an army of ethnic Hmong to fight communist forces there. Largely hidden from the American public—and most of Congress—Momentum became the largest CIA paramilitary operation in the history of the United States. The brutal war lasted more than a decade, left the ground littered with thousands of unexploded bombs, and changed the nature of the CIA forever. With “revelatory reporting” and “lucid prose” (The Economist), Kurlantzick provides the definitive account of the Laos war, focusing on the four key people who led the operation: the CIA operative whose idea it was, the Hmong general who led the proxy army in the field, the paramilitary specialist who trained the Hmong forces, and the State Department careerist who took control over the war as it grew. Using recently declassified records and extensive interviews, Kurlantzick shows for the first time how the CIA’s clandestine adventures in one small, Southeast Asian country became the template for how the United States has conducted war ever since—all the way to today’s war on terrorism.
Mai Ya S Long Journey
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Author : Sheila Terman Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
Release Date : 2013-11-26
Mai Ya S Long Journey written by Sheila Terman Cohen and has been published by Wisconsin Historical Society this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-26 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
The story of Mai Ya Xiong and her family and their journey from the Ban Vinai refugee camp in Thailand to a new life in Madison, Wisconsin, is extraordinary. Yet it is typical of the stories of the 200,000 Hmong people who now live in the United States and who struggle to adjust to American society while maintaining their own culture as a free people. Mai Ya's Long Journey follows Mai Ya Xiong, a young Hmong woman, from her childhood in Thailand's Ban Vinai Refugee Camp to her current home in Wisconsin. Mai Ya's parents fled Laos during the Vietnam War and were refugees in Thailand for several years before reaching the United States. But the story does not end there. Students will read the challenges Mai Ya faces in balancing her Hmong heritage and her adopted American culture as she grows into adulthood.
Hmong Americans In Michigan
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Author : Martha Aladjem Bloomfield
language : en
Publisher: MSU Press
Release Date : 2014-09-01
Hmong Americans In Michigan written by Martha Aladjem Bloomfield and has been published by MSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-01 with History categories.
The Hmong people, originating from the mountainous regions of China, Vietnam, Thailand, and Laos, are unique among American immigrants because of their extraordinary history of migration; loyalty to one another; prolonged abuse, trauma, and suffering at the hands of those who dominated them; profound loss; and independence, as well as their amazing capacity to adapt and remain resilient over centuries. This introduction to their experience in Michigan discusses Hmong American history, culture, and more specifically how they left homelands filled with brutality and warfare to come to the United States since the mid-1970s. More than five thousand Hmong Americans live in Michigan, and many of them have faced numerous challenges as they have settled in the Midwest. How did these brave and innovative people adapt to strange new lives thousands of miles away from their homelands? How have they preserved their past through time and place, advanced their goals, and cultivated plans for their children and education? What are their lives like in the diaspora? As this book documents via personal interviews and extensive research, despite the tremendous losses they have suffered for many years, the Hmong people in Michigan continue to demonstrate courage and profound resilience.