The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: Hmong Culture
Music and Dance
Hmong Language Radio Broadcasts
Hmong qeej players, St. Paul, MN (includes audio/video clips)
[Requires RealPlayer plug-in.]
Hmong Music in Vietnam by Hong Thao
The Journal of Vietnamese Music,Special Issue, vol. 4, no. 2, Fall 1995.
Arts and Crafts
Hmong Paj Ntaub Embroidery (QuiltEthnic.com)
Hmong Textiles (University of California-Irvine)
MacDowell, Marsha. Stories in Thread: Hmong Pictorial Embroidery. East Lansing, MI: Michigan Traditional Arts Program, Folk Arts Division, Michigan State University Museum, 1989.
Available in UL NonPrint Collection: 65-1653
Textile Art of Southeast Asia's Hmong People (Philip Courtenay, Director of James Cook University's Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies)
Ceremonial Skirt (The Minneapolis Institute of Arts)
Hmong Culture, Coloring, and Crafts
Survey of Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) Use by the Hmong (Miao) of the China/Vietnam Border Region by Robert C. Clarke and Wenfeng Gu
Stories and Literature
Traditional Songs and Stories of the Hua Miao of South West China. Compiled and translated by R. Keith Parsons.
Livo, Norma, and Dia Cha. Folk Stories of the Hmong: Peoples of Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1991.
Xiong, Blia. Nine-In-One Grr! Grr!; A Folktale from the Hmong People of Laos. San Francisco: Children's Book Press, 1989.
Giacchino-Baker, Rosalie. The Story of Mah: A Hmong "Romeo and Juliet" Folktale. El Monte, CA: Pacific Asia Press, 1997.
Foods and Food Preparation
Cultural Diversity: Eating in America -- Hmong (Ohio State University Extension Fact Sheet)
Hmong-style Spicy Carrot Salad
Chicken with Cucumber and Bitter Melon
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