Hmong milestones in America
Subtitle: citizens in a new world
By: by Susan Omoto.
Series: To know the land
Publisher: John Gordon Burke
Published: 2002
Place of publication: [Evanston, Ill.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Hmong Americans -- History.; Hmong Americans -- Biography.; Hmong Americans.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 60-61) and index.
Table of contents: title: Hmong history; title: Life in Laos; title: Celebrations; title: The war years; title: Leaving Laos for Thailand; title: Life in the camps; title: Dr. Xoua Thao, first Hmong medical doctor; title: Ying Vang, first Hmong Catholic priest in the United States; title: Choua Lee, first elected Hmong official in the United States; title: Rev. Bea Vue-Benson, first Hmong woman Lutheran minister; title: Christopher Thao, first Hmong attorney in the United States; title: Afterward: bridging two worlds; title: Hmong glossary.