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Maplewood – Learning from Place: HmongTown Marketplace & Beyond

Learning from Place: HmongTown Marketplace & Beyond offers a rare opportunity to witness the becoming of place through an inspiring vision of founder and CEO of HmongTown Marketplace and Pan Asian Center, Toua Xiong. Read More

Women’s History Month: Cultural Preservation and Celebrating HERstory

March 17, 2026 - By MayKao Fredericks

As we celebrate Women’s History Month and reflect on this year’s theme of “Leading the Change: Women Shaping a Sustainable Future”, I’m honored to share this blog on culture sustainability through Minnesota Humanities Center’s program From Mountains to Lakes.

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St. Paul – From Mountains to Lakes: Celebrate HERstory

Join the Minnesota Humanities Center and Hnub Tshiab: Hmong Women Achieving Together (HWAT) as we celebrate with Kaohly Vang Her a defining moment in St. Paul and Hmong history, the election of Her as St. Paul’s first women and first Hmong mayor. Read More

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St. Paul – From Mountains to Lakes: The Museums We Carry

From Mountains to Lakes: The Museums We Carry is a daylong retreat that brings together Hmong cultural bearers, educators, and community leaders to examine the dangers of cultural extinction and explore collective ways to preserve identity. Read More

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Minneapolis – 50th Anniversary Joint Commemoration Immersive Digital Experience

Walk through a history of the shared – similar yet very different – journeys of the Cambodian, Hmong, Lao, and Vietnamese communities, and Minnesota’s U.S. Vietnam Veterans, as they navigated war, refugee camps, and their eventual new lives in the United States. Read More

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St. Paul – 50th Joint Commemoration Community Events

Enjoy food concessions, craft vendors, entertainment, exhibits, artifacts, and much more, representing Minnesota’s vibrant Cambodian, Hmong, Lao, and Vietnamese communities, and Vietnam War era Veterans from their experiences in 1970s Southeast Asia to refugee camps and their harrowing journeys to Minnesota. Read More

America’s Secret War: A Multimedia Workshop Designed by and for Educators

November 7, 2019 - By Katie Carpenter

In the shadows of the Vietnam War, the CIA conducted a secret war in Laos that relied on Hmong soldiers to prevent the threat of communism from spreading deeper into Southeast Asia. Tens of thousands died, both in the fight and in the escape.

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