Asians in Greater Minnesota Oral History Project: Interview with Vichita Ounchith

Titles: Asians in Greater Minnesota Oral History Project: Interview with Vichita Ounchith (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Vichita Ounchith was born in 1983 in Lafayette, Louisiana. His parents were immigrants from Laos. At the time of the interview he was a high school football coach in Warroad, Minnesota. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Early life in Louisiana and California; family history in Laos and coming to the United States; being a junior monk in a Cambodian temple; moving to Minnesota as a child; living in Warroad, and being accepted by the white children; comparing California to Minnesota; going to school and ESL (English as a Second Language) classes; playing sports; experience playing college football; how proud he is to have graduated from college; teaching Lao and being active in the community; traveling back to Laos and feeling like a foreigner; coaching sports in Warroad; being in a leadership role within the school; not being involved in the Lao community.

Dates

• 03/14/2012 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Ounchith, Vichita
• interviewer: Vongsay, Saymoukda

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 144
• Accession Number: AV2012.5.5

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Asians in Greater Minnesota Oral History Project' <OH 144>

Quantity: 1 hour compact disc 32 pages transcripts

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 01:02:35 running time

Subjects

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