Hmong Women's Action Team Oral History Project: Interview with Maykeu V. Lyfoung

Titles: Hmong Women's Action Team Oral History Project: Interview with Maykeu V. Lyfoung (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Maykeu V. Lyfoung is the mother of Pacyinz Lyfoung. Born into the Vang clan, Maykeu is forty-nine years old. She has five children-two boys and three girls, and has completed two years of college. She has been married since she was seventeen and lives with her husband in Fresno, California. She was born in Xieng Khouang province, Laos, emigrated first to France and then came to the U.S. fifteen years ago. She is a White Hmong. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Biographical information and religious affiliation. Childhood-school attendance, duties at home, community service, skills taught, social activities as a child, aspirations as a child. Hmong women's roles-decision making inside and outside of home and clan, women in leadership roles and how they are seen in the community, what women do to support their families, family planning, when women feel respected or disrespected. The war and living in refugee camps-memories of fleeing Laos, of refugee camps, difference in treatment of men and women in the camps. Adjustments since coming to the U.S.-skills needed to adjust, learning English, skills from Laos and Thailand that are adaptable or useable in the U.S., citizenship, leadership roles for women in the U.S. versus Laos, public contributions by Hmong women. COMMENTS ON INTERVIEW: The interview was conducted predominantly in Hmong. The Hmong transcript and an English translation are bound together for this interview.

Dates

• 01/27/2000 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Lyfoung, Maykeu Vang
• interviewer: Lyfoung, Pacyinz

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 86
• Accession Number: AV2001.103.14

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Hmong Women's Action Team Oral History Project' <OH 86>

Quantity: 1 hour sound cassette 15 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 00:28:41 running time

Subjects

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