Bamboo Among the Oaks: Contemporary Writing by Hmong Americans BISAC-OCC023000 a struggle that transcends through

a struggle that transcends through every layer of society

Paul's Summit Avenue

he is most at home in the wilderness

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The Baljuna Covenant tells stories of a poor boy's rise to the heights of world power

Bamboo Among the Oaks: Contemporary Writing by Hmong Americans BISAC-OCC023000 a struggle that transcends throughOf an estimated twelve million ethnic Hmong in the world, more than 160,000 live in the United States today, most of them refugees of the Vietnam War and the civil war in Laos. Their numbers make them one of the largest recent immigrant groups in our nation. Today, significant Hmong populations can be found in California, Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Michigan, and Colorado, and St. Paul boasts the largest concentration of Hmong residents of