[Interview of the Xiong family, Hmong immigrants from Laos]. [Part 1].

Hmong immigrant and Michigan resident Lian Xiong reminisces about growing up on her family's farm in Laos and her childhood experience of war. Xiong recounts her family's escape from Laos, focusing especially the uncertainty of trusting boaters to ferry them across the Mekong River. She also discuss...

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Bibliographic Details

Corporate Authors:	Hmong Americans in Michigan Oral History Project, Michigan State University Press (sponsoring body.)
Other Authors:	Xiong, Lian (Interviewee), Xiong, Kao (Speaker), Bloomfield, Martha Aladjem (Interviewer)
Language:	English
Subjects:	Hmong Americans > Michigan > Interviews. Farm life > Laos. Children and war > Laos. Evacuation of civilians. Refugee camps > Thailand. Oral histories. Sound recordings.
Genre:	Interviews. Oral histories. Sound recordings.
Online Access:	Listen to sound recording - All users (Michigan State University Libraries)
Local Note:	MSU: Gift of Martha Aladjem Bloomfield.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (1 audio file (48 min., 20 sec.))
Format:	Electronic Audio Software