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Hmong Women's Action Team Oral History Project

Hmong Women's Action Team Oral History Project

Titles: Hmong Women's Action Team Oral History Project (Supplied title)

Description: This oral history project chronicles the contributions and experiences of Hmong women with ties to Minnesota. Members of the Hmong Women’s Action Team, a group of Hmong women community leaders and activists, interviewed each other and their mothers and grandmothers, and in one case her daughter. They share their stories of life in Minnesota, Thailand, and Laos. Three generations from six different families are represented in this series of eighteen interviews. The interviews help provide a greater understanding of Hmong women’s roles in the home and community, challenges and successes in public and private realms, and across time and space. The elder women’s experiences included maintaining home and family while their husbands fought alongside American soldiers in the Vietnam War. They fled their farms and villages and crossed the Mekong River into Thailand where they lived in refugee camps before resettling in the United States. The experiences of the oldest members of the community are vastly different from those who came here as children and those who were born in this country. Today, Hmong women work as teachers, lawyers, and decision makers in their respective positions - opportunities not available to them in their homeland. The youngest never experienced war or resettlement and are unfamiliar with the privations of their elders.

Dates

  • 11/01/1999 - 01/27/2000 (Creation)

Interviews

Creation

Identifiers

  • Library Call Number: OH 86
  • Accession Number: AV2001.103

Holding Type: Oral History - Project

Quantity: 1 project 23 hour sound cassette 806 pages transcript

Format

  • Content Category: sound recordings
  • Content Category: text

Subjects

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