Galen Beery Collection

We recently partnered with California State University - Fresno in creating the Galen Beery Digital Repository.

VINAI Exhibit

Vinai: The Hmong Refugee Experience was a community effort to showcase the refugee experience in Thailand from 1975-1992.

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"It's a long and very uncomfortable history. The plight of the Hmong shows how much people will resist oppression and I can only rejoice in that so many of them were able to do so and come to the United States."

The People Beneath a Moon Before the River

Pos L. Moua

After long months of wandering without knowing how the river will unfold for them, they are people beneath a moon before the river, preparing to settle for the night and to pray to their ancestors for a safe crossing, like a crossing over a bridge into the clouds.

Momentum

Soul Vang

My Hmong brothers and sisters, I know sometimes you feel powerless, don’t know what to do…
You’re stuck in place with nowhere to go. Then I want you to remember this word: MOMENTUM.

Hmong and the French during WWII

Soul Vang

During World War II, Japanese soldiers who occupied Laos and Indochina let the French administrators and soldiers rule as they had for fifty years. These local French administrators were working for the French government of Marshal Petain, a puppet government of Japan’s ally, Germany.