At our Hmong celebration in Winona in 1995, some teenagers danced traditional Hmong dances and others did a street dance. We all felt so proud and we received many compliments. It's not easy to be a Hmong kid. The Hmong have a lot of folk tales. The Hmong stories tell about a long time ago when the first people were on the earth and they tell how everything got started.
Parents tell stories to the children.
They tell stories mostly to the young children. Sometimes they tell them when the children are yelling at each other. They tell the stories to make the children scared. Sometimes they tell stories when we go to sleep. Usually, they tell the stories in the bedroom.