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THE ROOT & THE FRUIT: HMONG IDENTITY
Author: Dr. Pao Saykao
The Root & the Fruit is one of the very first books to
address Hmong identity, especially written by a Hmong.
This book is a revision of Dr. Pao Saykao's keynote
presentation at the 2002 Hmong National Development
Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
LONG ROAD TO FREEDOM: JOURNEY OF THE HMONG
Author: Linda
Barr
Journey of the Hmong is a brief and simple history book
for young children. It has many colorful photos of the
Hmong in Southeast Asia and here in the United States.
It tells the history of the Hmong from China to America.
Table of Contents are Caught in a War, Life before the
War, From the Jungle to the Camps, Moving to America,
and Going Home. It also provides glossary to help its
readers to understand important words. It is strongly
recommended for young readers or those who have minimal
knowledge of Hmong history and culture.
Tragic Mountains: The
Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos,
1942-1992
By: Jane Hamilton
The Hmong, a mountain people of Laos, were U.S. allies
during the Vietnam war. A noble, friendly folk with a
4000-year-old culture, they are the object of a
genocidal campaign by the communist Laotian and
Vietnamese governments. In this bitter, tragic and
disturbing saga, Asian scholar/journalist/photographer
Hamilton-Merritt documents the horrible suffering
endured by the Hmong since they were abandoned by the
U.S. in 1975. Her collection of eyewitness testimonies
establishes that the Laotian-Vietnamese forces have
field-tested chemical and biological toxins by using
Hmong villages as targets (the "yellow rain" dismissed
by the Western media as bee dung). The situation is
especially urgent because those thousands of Hmong who
succeeded in escaping to Thailand are now being forcibly
repatriated to their homeland, where they face
extermination as a despised minority and former "running
dogs of the imperialist." Hamilton-Merritt's impressive
study, one hopes, will lead to the belated U.S.
recognition of responsibility for the plight of the
Hmong. Photos.
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