Paul Hillmer
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Paul Hillmer is a professor of American history and the director of the Hmong Oral History Project at Concordia University. His six-part History Channel-funded documentary, From Strangers to Neighbors, examines Hmong people and their resettlement in the Twin Cities. He is also the author of the new book A People’s History of the Hmong published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press.

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Abandoning the Hmong Again?

Posted January 5, 2010 | 17:31:27 (EST)

On Tuesday, December 22, at an event celebrating his 80th birthday, Hmong leader and former general Vang Pao announced he was returning to Laos. Claiming support from high-ranking officials in Thailand and Laos, he insisted, "We have to make a change right now . . . We should put something...

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