Asians in Greater Minnesota Oral History Project: Interview with Bounlorm Soumetho

Titles: Asians in Greater Minnesota Oral History Project: Interview with Bounlorm Soumetho (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Bounlorm Soumetho grew up in Laos but escaped to Thailand after his land was taken from him at the end of the Vietnam War. He was a former president of Lao Community of Worthington, Minnesota, and at the time of the interview was chairman of the Lao Buddhist Organization of Southwest Minnesota. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Family, marriage, financial struggles, education, unemployment, immigration to Thailand and the United States, Vietnam War, Minnesota's Lao community.

Dates

• 09/22/2012 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Soumetho, Bounlorm
• interviewer: Yang, Pa

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 144
• Accession Number: AV2012.5.13

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

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

Quantity: 1.5 hours compact disc 32 pages transcripts

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 01:34:59 running time

Subjects

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