Mayka, born in 1952, grew up as one of 10 children in east-central Laos, where they carried water from the well every day after school and foraged for vegetables and bamboo shoots to help their ...
At museums in the Twin Cities, where Hmong families settled after a Vietnam proxy war in Laos, story cloths and other artifacts recount their history. By Alex V. Cipolle Reporting from Minneapolis ...