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History, Culture, and Life in Laos

The Refugee Experience

Hmong in the West

Language, Literacy, and Education

Web Sites

Bibliography

This bibliography includes both sources that were used to prepare the guide and additional resources for the reader who wants to learn more about the Hmong.

History, Culture, and Life in Laos

Adams, N. S., & McCoy, A. W. (Eds.). (1970). Laos: War and revolution. New York: Harper and Row.

Cha, D. (2002). Dia's story cloth. Hmong/English Bilingual Edition. (children’s storybook). St. Paul: Minnesota Humanities Commission.

Dommen, A. J. (1970). Conflict in Laos: The politics of neutralization. New York: Praeger.

Evans, G. (2004). Laos: Situation analysis and trend. Report commissioned by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Geneva: UNHCR. Available from http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home

Geddes, W. R. (1976). Migrants of the mountains: The cultural ecology of the Blue Miao (Hmong Njua) of Thailand. Oxford: Clarendon.

Halpern, J., & Kunstadter, P. (1967). Laos: Introduction. In Peter Kunstadter (Ed.), Southeast Asian tribes, minorities and nations (pp 233–258). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Hamilton-Merritt, J. (1992). Tragic mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the secret wars for Laos, 1942–1992. Bloomington: Indiana University.

Johnson, C. (1982). Hmong myths, legends and folktales: A resource for understanding. In B. T. Downing & D. P. Olney (Eds.), The Hmong in the West: Observations and reports (pp. 86–98). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs.

Johnson, C. (Ed.). (1983). Dab neeg Hmoob: Hmong myths, legends, and folktales from the Hmong of Laos. St. Paul, MN: Macalester College.

Lee, G. Y. (1982). Minority policies and the Hmong. In M. Stuart-Fox (Ed.), Contemporary Laos (pp. 199–219). Queensland, Australia: University of Queensland.

Lee, G. Y. (1996). Cultural identity in post-modern society: Reflections on what is a Hmong? Hmong Studies Journal, 1(1). Available from http://members.aol.com/hmongstudiesjrnl/HSJv1n1_LeeFr.html

Library of Congress. (1995). Laos: A country study. Washington, DC: Author.

Morrison, G. (1999). Sky is falling: An oral history of the CIA's evacuation of the Hmong from Laos. Jefferson, NC: McFarland.

Quincy, K. (1988). Hmong: History of a people. Spokane: Eastern Washington University.

Quincy, K. (2000). Harvesting Pa Chay’s wheat: The Hmong and America’s secret war in Laos. Spokane: Eastern Washington University.

Robbins, C. (1987). The Ravens: The men who flew in America’s secret war in Laos. New York: Crown.

Stuart-Fox, M. (1997). A History of Laos. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University.

Tapp, N., Michaud, J., Culas, C., & Lee, G. Y. (2004). Hmong/Miao in Asia. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books. (Distributed in the United States by University of Washington Press).

Warner, R. (1995). Shooting at the moon: The story of America’s clandestine war in Laos. South Royalton, VT: Steerforth.

Yang, D. (1982). Why did the Hmong leave Laos? In B. T. Downing & D. P. Olney (Eds.), The Hmong in the West: Observations and reports (pp. 3-18). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs.

Yang, D. (1993). Hmong at the turning point. Minneapolis, MN: WorldBridge Associates.

The Refugee Experience

Chan, S. (1994). Hmong means free: Life in Laos and America. Philadelphia: Temple University.

Lee, G. Y. (1990). Refugees from Laos: Historical background and causes. Available at http://www.truenorth.net.au/userdir/yeulee/History/Refugees_from_Laos.html

Lee, G. Y. (2004). Dust of life: A true Ban Vinai love story (novel). St. Paul, MN: Hmongland Publishing.

Long, L. D. (1993). Ban Vinai: The refugee camp. New York: Columbia University.

Ranard, D. A. (1987, October). The last bus. The Atlantic Monthly, 26-28, 30, 32, 34.

Hmong in the West

Cha, D. (2003). Hmong American concepts of health, healing, and conventional medicine. New York: Routledge.

Donnelly, N. D. (1995). Changing lives of refugee Hmong women. Seattle: University of Washington.

Downing, B. T., & Olney, D. P. (Eds.). (1982). The Hmong in the West: Observations and reports. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs.

Faderman, L. (1998). I begin my life all over: The Hmong and the American immigrant experience. Boston: Beacon Press.

Fadiman, A. (1997). The spirit catches you and you fall down: A Hmong child, her doctors, and the collision of two cultures. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.

Hendricks, G. L., Downing, B. T., & Deinard, A. S. (Eds.). (1986). The Hmong in transition. Staten Island, NY: Center for Migration Studies.

Office of Refugee Resettlement. (1980). Report to the Congress. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Thao, C. (1982). Hmong migration and leadership in Laos and in the United States. In B. T. Downing & D. P. Olney (Eds.), The Hmong in the West: Observations and reports (pp. 99–121). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs.

Warner, M. E., & Mochel, M. (1998). The Hmong and health care in Merced, California. Hmong Studies Journal, 2(2). Available at http://members.aol.com/hmongstudiesjrnl/HSJ-v2n2_Warner_Frames.html

Yang, K. (2003). Hmong Americans: A review of felt needs, problems, and community development. Hmong Studies Journal, 4, 1–23. Available at http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/collections/sea/Hmong-Americans-Needs-Yang.pdf

Yang, K. (2003). Hmong diaspora of the post-war period. Asian Pacific Migration Journal, 12(3), 271–300.

Language, Literacy, and Education

Bliatout, B., Downing, B., Lewis, J., & Yang, D. (1988). Handbook for teaching Hmong-speaking students. Folsom, CA: Folsom Cordova Unified School District, Southeast Asia Community Resource Center.

Cha, D., & Livo, N. (2000). Teaching with folk stories of the Hmong: An activity book. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited.

Duffy, J. (2000). Literacy and l’armée clandestine: The writings of the Hmong military scribes. Hmong Studies Journal, 3. Available from http://members.aol.com/hmongstudies/HSJv3_DuffyFr.html

Duffy, J. (2000). Never hold a pencil: Rhetoric and relations in the concept of “preliteracy.” Written Communication 17 (2), 224–257.

Duffy, J. (in press). Letters from the fair city: A rhetorical conception of literacy. College Composition and Communication.

Green, K. R., and Reder, S. (1986). Factors in individual acquisition of English: A longitudinal study of Hmong adults. In G. L. Hendricks, B. T. Downing, & A. S. Deinard (Eds.), The Hmong in transition (pp. 299–329). Staten Island, NY: Center for Migration Studies.

Heimbach, E. E. (1979). White Hmong-English dictionary (Data Paper 75, Linguistic Series IV). Ithaca, New York: Cornell University, Southeast Asia Program.

Lyman, T. A. (1974). Dictionary of Mong Njua (Green Miao), a Miao (Meo) language of Southeast Asia. The Hague: Mouton.

Ratliff, M. (1986). Two-word expressives in White Hmong. In G. L. Hendricks, B. T. Downing, & A. S. Deinard (Eds.), The Hmong in transition (pp. 219–236). Staten Island, NY: Center for Migration Studies.

Ratliff, M. (2003). Hmong secret languages: Themes and variations. In D. Bradley, R. LaPolla, B. Michailovsky, and G. Thurgood (Eds.), Language variation: Papers on variation and change in the Sinosphere and in the Indosphere in honour of James A. Matisoff (pp.1–18). Melbourne, Australia: Pacific Linguistics.

Smalley, W. A., Vang, C. K., & Yang, G. Y. (1990). Mother of writing: The origin and development of a Hmong messianic script. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Thao, P. (1999). Mong education at the crossroads. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

Thao, P. (1999). Mong linguistic awareness for classroom teachers. In C. C. Park & M. M. Y. Chi (Eds.), Asian-American education: Prospects and challenges (pp. 237–262). Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey.

Um, K. (2003). A dream denied: Educational experiences of Southeast Asian American youth, issues, and recommendations. Washington, DC: Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC).

Vang, A. T. (1999). Hmong-American students: Challenges and opportunities. In C. C. Park & M. M. Y. Chi (Eds.), Asian-American education: Prospects and challenges (pp. 219–236). Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey.

Yang, K. Y. (2003, June 17). Southeast Asian Americans and Higher Education. Report prepared by Southeast Asia Resource Action Center for the Congressional Forum: Evaluation of Asian Pacific Americans in Education, Washington, DC. Available at http://www.searac.org/kytest6-17-03.html

Web Sites

The following Web sites are sources of information on the Hmong:

Gary Yia Lee Web site: http://www.truenorth.net.au/userdir/yeulee/

Information on Hmong people, history, culture, and resettlement experiences by a a leading scholar on the Hmong.

 

Lao Family Community of Minnesota, http://www.laofamily.org/

Information about the Hmong in Minnesota along with historical and cultural data about the Hmong people.

 

Hmong National Development, Inc.: http://www.hndlink.org

A source of information on Hmong community activities throughout the United States; also includes information on Hmong culture and history.

 

Hmong Studies Internet Resource Center: http://www.hmongstudies.org/

A source of information about studies of Hmong history, culture, and adaptation in Hmong communities around the world.

 

Hmong Studies Journal: http://members.aol.com/hmongstudies/hsj.html

Electronic publication devoted to the scholarly discussion of the Hmong people, history, culture, and other facets of the Hmong experience in the United States, Asia, and around the world.

 

WWW Hmong Homepage: http://www.hmongnet.org/

A collection of resources relating to Hmong history, culture, language, and current events.

The Cultural Orientation Project--http://www.culturalorientation.net, for more information contact sanja@cal.org
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