Tag: Oral History
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Experience Hmong Storytelling in its Original Tongue: An Interview with Ma Lee Lor
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Oral storytelling serves as a connection to the past, present, and future while preserving history, culture, and traditions. In Hmong culture, stories are classified as neej neeg, stories of the living, or dab neeg, stories of the dead. Neej neeg are stories that encapsulate life experiences; some are filled with grief, some serve to empower,…
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Launched! A Portrait of Grief and Courage: Hmong Oral Histories and Folktales
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One of the most moving events we could hope for was our December 2023 launch of Sandra Shackelford’s A Portrait of Grief and Courage: Hmong Oral Histories and Folktales, translated and transcribed by May Lee Lor and Ma Lee Lor, and with an introduction by Pao Lor. Feel free to peruse our photo gallery here,…
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Who is Pa Lee?
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Pa Lee was born in a village called Khang Kay. She got married and had two children in Longcheng, living under a cruel communist regime for 14 years. Pa Lee’s family feared retribution from the Viet Cong because her husband had worked with the U.S. military, so they decided it would be safer to live…