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Organizations | Special Projects found on Social Media | Publishers & Authors | Artists | Curriculum & Resource Materials | Dissertations & Thesis | Writings | Podcasts | Conferences & Professional Developments

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Hmong Organizations in MN 

Center for Hmong Arts and Talent - CHAT exists to nurture, explore & illuminate the Hmong American experience through artistic expressions

Hmong American Farmers Association - Through collective farm business development, education and advocacy, we are building paths to wealth creation, not just income generation, toward a sustainable, fair food economy for all.

Hmong Archives - An organization to research, collect, preserve, interpret, and disseminate materials in all formats about or by Hmong.

Hmong Cultural Center - An organization that provides community outreach activities related to multicultural education for the purposes of promoting positive race relations in the Twin Cities community. 

Hmong Museum - Hmong Museum is the first and currently only museum dedicated to the preservation and education of Hmong culture, history, stories, and arts.

Hmong Woman Today - Hmong Women Today (HWT)​ is a community benefit organization of women empowering women aiming to create opportunities for women to connect, empower and thrive. 

The SEAD Project - Growing social empowerment through language and storytelling in Southeast Asian diaspora communities, locally and globally. They offer virtual Southeast language classes.

Street Stops and Mountain Tops - Street Stops and Mountain Tops bridges diasporic Hmong communities through artistic exchange and education to deepen cultural identities.

Hmong Resource Center Library  - The Hmong Resource Center Library has unique and important newspaper article collections focused on Human Rights issues experienced by the Hmong diaspora across the world and Race Relations issues experienced by the Hmong population in the U.S.

MN Zej Zog - The mission is to empower the Hmong community by nurturing the Hmong language, healing through the arts and wellness, and becoming more powerful through education across the generations. Look for us on Facebook starting in January of 2021.

Givers’ Dreams - Givers of Dreams Organization creates educational opportunities, hopes, and the means to keep dreams alive for all children.

Found on Social Media 

Hmong Mental Health Care Coalition on FB - The Hmong Health Care Professionals Coalition (HHCPC) is a partnership of Hmong public health experts based in St. Paul. 

Project Tshav Ntuj on FB - A movement to destigmatize mental health, prevent suicide and promote wellness in the Hmong Community

Ncais Literature on FB - Encourage new moms to stay back in shape and stay healthy both mental and physical to educate nutrition knowledge about food and diseases, teach new vocabulary for students, and tips for parenting

Fresno Unified School District (FUSD) Hmong Dual Language Immersion on FB - A place where Hmong language educators, Hmong librarians, and parents can embrace digital books and resources in the Hmong language.

Hmong American Experience - An online organization dedicated to share the latest news and stories about Hmong Americans

Publishers & Authors

Hmong Educational Resource Publisher - HER provides publishing services for Hmong students, writers, educators, researchers, and graphic artists to envision a future led by Hmong voices.

Hmong ABC Bookstore - The First Hmong Bookstore dedicated to preserving and promoting the Hmong people through our large collections of Hmong arts, books and crafts.

Hmong Baby - Hmong Flashcards and baby books

Ge Xiong - Author of A World Without Boundaries

Kao Kalia Yang - Author of A Map Into the World, The Song Poet, and many more

Mai Neng Moua - Author of Bamboo Amongst the Oaks, The Price Bride, and many more

May Yang - Author of Leaving Laos 

Peb Yog Hmong - Author Patrick Vang of Sacramento, California - High school Hmong novels

Reading Karma - A collection of multicultural children’s literature where the Hmong culture, history, and language are preserved and sustained for future generations.

St. Paul Public School - MLL Publication and Online Store - Books and resources for classrooms

YaKao Yang - Author of Nkauj Hmoob Nplog Teb, A Hmong Boys Story

Dr. Yang Dao - Author of Hmong at the Turning Point and many more

Artists

Duachaka Her - Cartoon and Illustrator in Wisconsin

Hmong Thrills - A variety of different Hmong artists

Oskar Ly - Oskar Ly is a queer Hmong French American multi-disciplinary artist, organizer and creative cultural producer based in the Twin Cities, MN.

Curriculum & Resources

Hmoobasics - A great resource with many tools created by Art & Hmong Language teacher Gwen Kong

ESL and Culture Resources - Created by the University of California, San Diego

MN Humanities Absent Narrative Resource - Find lesson plans

PBS - Hmong and The Secret War - video to use in the classroom

PBS - Americas Secret War - video to use in the classroom

Your Story, Our Story - Tenement Museum - features objects that tells personal stories of American immigrants and migration - publish your students stories

Quizlet - Hmong flashcards

The Story Cloth Shop - Learn how to Speak Hmong activities, blogs, and more 

Hmong Oral History Project - transcriptions and translations of 28 oral history interviews, as well as overview of themes from the oral history project 

Hmong Contemporary Issues - A resource of contemporary issues by Dr. Kao Ly Yang

Refugee Educator’s Network - Collection of books, videos, magazines, and artifacts, have sponsored 14 conferences, and have published books and 22 volumes of Context: Newcomers in California’s Classrooms.

Refugee Studies Center Book Collection at the IHRC Archives - one of the first and largest of repositories of information on Hmong in the U.S.

Dissertations and Thesis

Hmong Studies Journal - The Hmong Studies Journal is a unique and established peer-reviewed Internet-based academic publication devoted to the scholarly discussion of Hmong history, Hmong culture, Hmong people, and other facets of the Hmong experience in the U.S., Asia and around the world.

Papers on Hmong LInguistics - A collection of papers on Hmong Linguistics

Do you have a dissertation or a thesis
that you would like to share on our page? Email us at hmonglanguageresourcehub@gmail.com with your inquiry

Writings

Hmong Prints - A blog about the Hmong American Experience

The Story Cloth Shop - Shop and blog about Hmong American stories

Medium.com - Mai Mai - A writing platform for Hmong authors and artists to share their work

Hmong, Shamanism, Spirituality - Writings on shamanism and spirituality 

Podcasts

Hmong Men Talk - Changing the narrative of our Hmong men with new, open, encouraging, mind opening dialogues!

SBS Hmong in Australia - a Hmong radio station in Australia 

Tub Ntxhais Hluas Hmoob Nation Podcast - Students from Park Center High School speak about topics that interests them

Conferences & Professional Development on Hmong and Languages 

MCTLC - MN Council on Teaching Language and Culture - advancing the teaching of languages and cultures in Minnesota.

Central States - The Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages serves the fourteen states of: Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

ACTFL - The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) is dedicated to the improvement and expansion of the teaching and learning of all languages at all levels of instruction. 

ATDLE - Association of Two-Way and Dual Language/Bilingual Immersion Education

CARLA Institute - Center for Advance Research on Language Acquisitions

JNCL - National Council for Languages and International Studies - Language Advocacy Day on the Hill

NNELL -  National Network for Early Language Learning

CAL - Center for Applied Linguistics