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CULTURES - LAOTIAN

General Information Websites

Let's Learn Lao
http://www.lao.i8.com/
This website maintained by Bounhong Khommarath is a Lao learning Online program through the Internet

Southeast Asian Refugee Experience:
http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/collections/sea/seaexhibit/
This site offers a visual experience through pictures of refugees, excerpts from letters, and information regarding the Southeast Asian immigration into the United States (including Hmong and Vietnamese immigration as well).

Lao U.S. Embassy:
http://www.laoembassy.com
This site offers general information about Lao regarding culture, geography, religion, and news.

Websites for Teachers

Lao Language and Culture Learning Resources:
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/lao/LaoLanguage/Lao_language_fp.htm
The web page of Northern Illinois Universities Center for Southeast Asian Studies. This site offers on-line language learning resources with language lessons, literature, folklore, references, and products.

Lao Vision Magazine:
http://www.laovision.net/
An online national magazine that discusses important issues affecting Lao refugees.

 

Children's Books

Coburn, Jewell. Encircled Kingdom: Legends and Folktales of Laos.

Lao Folktales, Retold by Steve Epstein, Xieng Mieng: The Cleverest Man in the Kingdom.

Luangpraseut, Khamchong. Laos and the Laotians.

Additional Books

Bounkeo, S., Inthavong, O., Luangpraseut, K. Soukbandith, B., Phommasouvanh, B. & Compton, C. First Phase Development. (1980). Second Phase Development Lewis, J. & Luangprasuet, K. (1989). Handbook for Teaching Lao-Speaking Students. Avaliable online at http://www.seacrc.org/

Dakin, B. (2003). Another Quiet American: Stories of Life in Laos.

Evans, G. (1998). The Politics of Ritual and Remembrance: Laos Since 1975. Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press.

Huo, T.C. Land of Smiles. (2000). New York : Plume

Proudfoot, Robert. Even the Birds Don't Sound the Same Here: The Laotian Refugees Search for Heart in American Culture.

Scott, J.C. (1989). Indochina's Refugees: Oral Histories from Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. McFarland & Company.

 


  
 
 
 
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