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WUWM: Hmong American Experience

Hmong woman

Hmong woman in traditional dress attending a wedding.

Interview with Professor Chia Vang

Hmong people make up the largest group of Asians in Milwaukee. Wisconsin has the third largest population of Hmong in the United States, behind California and Minnesota. Listen to historian Chia Vang talk about how the Hmong came to settle in our state and their experience of living in our country.

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UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.