Our Oral History and Storytelling Project is an ongoing effort. Please continue to check this page. We will be adding stories as we receive and complete them.
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Chloe - Iu Mien Community
Muey Luang Saeteurn was born in the small upland Iu Mien village of Long San in northern Laos…..
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Edison - Khmer Community
“That’s why I survived. Because they didn’t get a chance to kill me. But they were going to kill me,” Chanty……
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Benjamin - Lao Community
Tousai was born in Laos in the mid 1950s. This period of Laos history is rather tumultuous…..
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Arya - Lao Community
“I go to the temple for peace of mind,” Betsy says softly. “It makes me happy. my husband and daughter passed…
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Hannah - Iu Mien Community
“My only worry is about my culture,” Fou Poo Saechao warns us regarding the preservation…..
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Maddox - IU Mien Community
Kaochiem Saephan was born in a small Iu Mien village in the mountains of northern Laos…..
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Sachin - Hmong Community
COMING SOON
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Megan - Lao Community
“We were so scared that something might happen to us and we would never be together again,”
Our Stories
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Our Stories -
OUR STORIES, OUR HISTORY
“Every time an elder passes, they take a piece of the culture with them.”