Behind her, the shaman struck his gong repeatedly, unfurling a wall of sound. If she had spirit guides, they would confirm her calling as a tvix neeb, or Hmong shaman, by causing her body to shake ...

ST. PAUL, Minn.ST. PAUL, Minn. — For the annual fall renewal of her shaman spirit, Mee Vang Yang will soon ritually redecorate the tall altar in her living room where she keeps her father’s ...

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL--In the largest study of its kind, researchers from the University of Minnesota, Creative Theatre Unlimited and UCare Minnesota (UCare) have found that Hmong cultural attitudes ...

Merced County experienced a significant influx of Hmong residents in the mid-1970s, when refugees from Laos relocated to the county after fleeing in fear of persecution at the end of the Vietnam War.

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The majority of the approximately 300,000 Hmong in the United States believe that spirits live throughout the physical world. ST. PAUL, Minn. — For the annual fall renewal of her shaman spirit, Mee ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — For the annual fall renewal of her shaman spirit, Mee Vang Yang will soon ritually redecorate the tall altar in her living room where she keeps her father’s ring-shaped shaman bells.