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The Hmong New Year is celebrated in Fresno. The celebrations are held outdoors and collectively it is the largest Hmong New Year celebration in the United States. As of 2013 there are two separate celebrations, the Hmong International New Year at the Fresno Fairgrounds and another at Calwa Park in southeast Fresno. Col.
One festive holiday the Hmong culture celebrates is the Hmong New Year celebration, which is a cultural tradition that takes place annually in selected areas where Hmong communities exist and in a modified form where smaller communities come together. During the New Year's celebration, Hmong dress in traditional clothing and enjoy traditional ...
The Fresno Center CEO Pao Yang, center, with councilperson Mike Karbassi, left, and Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer, right, laugh together as they have photos taken at the 2023 Hmong American Day ...
Hmong Americans ( RPA: Hmoob Mes Kas, Pahawh Hmong: " 𖬌𖬣𖬵 𖬉𖬲𖬦 𖬗𖬲 ") are Americans of Hmong ancestry. Many Hmong Americans immigrated to the United States as refugees in the late 1970s. Over half of the Hmong population from Laos left the country, or attempted to leave, in 1975, at the culmination of the Laotian Civil War .
Of Fresno’s Asian-Pacific Islander population of about 78,000, more than half (35,000) are Hmong, Lee said. Fresno has the nation’s second-largest Hmong population , behind only Minneapolis.
There are 32,000 Hmong community members in the capital — the second-largest population outside of Fresno. And for the 18th year in a row, many of them gathered this weekend to celebrate their ...
The Fresno Home and Garden Show is held in the spring, The Fresno Home Remodeling and Decorating Show in the summer and The Fresno Fall Home Improvement Show in the fall. Hmong International New Year - The annual Hmong New Year celebration at the Fresno Fairgrounds brings more than 100,000 people from all over the world. Awards
“If history isn’t documented, then it’s forgotten,” a librarian involved in creating Fresno State’s Hmong history repository said. Hmong culture in 1960s war-torn Laos documented by ...