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• 1999: This is Home | Hmong in Minnesota
  In a four-part documentary in 1999, MPR News reporter Lynette Nyman explored the ways members of St. Paul's Hmong community wrestled with issues of culture and identity, with maintaining ties to the past and seeking to thrive in modern urban America.March 12, 1999
• 1992: "We are Hmong," a play for the generations
  MPR News reporter Chris Roberts talks to the playwright and cast behind "We are Hmong," an original play collaboratively produced in St. Paul in 1992.November 6, 1992
• 1992: Mai Vang, supporting her family as an entrepreneur
  MPR News reporter Kate Smith talks to Mai Vang, a woman who is working to support her parents and siblings in Rosemount, Minn.April 6, 1992
• 1987: Hmong families meet arriving relatives at airport
  MPR News reporter Tom Meersman reports from Twin Cities International Airport as Northwest flight 128 arrives from Bangkok. Among its passengers are nearly three dozen Hmong refugees planning to resettle in Minnesota.September 18, 1987
• 1986: Visiting Ban Vinai refugee camp
  MPR News reporter Tom Meersman reports from Ban Vinai, "a refugee camp in a picturesque valley in northern Thailand," as Hmong craftspeople, American doctors and U.N. officials live and work and navigate the artificial constructs life inside its boundaries.October 7, 1986
• 1981: The challenges of housing
  MPR News reporter Tom Meersman reports on the housing challenges — practical, cultural, governmental and social — refugee families face after arriving in Minneapolis.March 23, 1981
• 1980: Laotian immigrants arrive in Minnesota
  In a report broadcast May 2, 1980, MPR News reporter Tom Meersman tells the story of 60 Laotian refugees who arrived on a flight from San Francisco to Minnesota the day before.May 2, 1980
• 1979: 'Trampled Grass' documentary
  In 1979, MPR News reporter Greg Barron accompanied a team of medical doctors and nurses from Minnesota who were working in Cambodian refugee camps along the Thailand/Kampuchea border. This documentary reports on the sights, the sounds, the people and the suffering.December 29, 1979
• 1979: After touring refugee camps, Minn. Gov. Quie pledges support
  MPR News reporter Pat Kessler reported on Minnesota Gov. Al Quie's visit to refugee camps along Thailand's border with Cambodia. "The governor was clearly moved by what he saw," Kessler reports.October 30, 1979
• 1979: Minnesota Gov. Quie tours refugee camps in Thailand
  MPR News reporter Pat Kessler talked to Minnesota Gov. Al Quie about a trip he made to Asia in the fall of 1979.October 30, 1979

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