CULTURES - HMONG

General Information Websites

Hmong WWW Homepage:
http://www.hmongnet.org/
This site provides information about Hmong history, culture, traditions, current events, organizations, special projects, and publications.

Hmong Cultural Center:
http://site.yahoo.com/hmongcultural/titlesdh.html
Includes a list of books touching many concerns of Hmong students.

Websites For Teachers

Resources about the Hmong for Teachers
http://www.uwsuper.edu/library/hmong/hmong.html
This site provides articles, books, videos, pedagogical resources, available on the ERIC database, and additional websites.

Additional Reading

Bliatout, B.T., Downing, B.T., Lewis, J. & Yang, D. (1988). Handbook for Teaching Hmong Speaking Students. Available on line at http://www.seacrc.org/media/pdfiles/HmongBk.pdf

Chan, Sucheng. Hmong Means Free: Life in Laos and America.

Faderman, Lillian and Xiong, Ghia. I Begin My Life all Over: The Hmong and the American Immigrant Experience

Fadiman, Anne, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Hamilton-Merritt, Jane. Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992.

Moua, M.N. (Editor). Bamboo Among the Oaks: Contemporary Writing by Hmong Americans.

Paoze, T. (1999). Mong Education at the Crossroads. Rowman & Littlefield

Shea, P. D. (1996). The Whispering Cloth: A Refugee's Story.

Worth Viewing

Becoming America. (USD Media Center: VC 4442).