Hmong History
What is Hmong?
Primary job of Hmong people small villages in the mountains of Laos.
What is farming? or What are farmers?
What skill do young girls learn from their mothers and grandmothers that is an important part of their culture?
What is sewing or embroidery?
Black Hawk Middle School Bilingual Resource Teacher for Hmong language and culture classes.
Who is Ms Maivue Thao?
The war that Hmong people joined and worked with the American CIA.
What is the Vietnam War?
The spiritual leader in Hmong culture whose job it is to communicate with the spiritual world.
What is the Hmong Shaman?
True or False: Traditional Hmong clothing is mostly black and white with very little color sewn into it.
False: Hmong embroidery includes bright colors such as pinks, reds, greens, and blues. They are used to contrast with the colors of yellow and brown overlaid with white.
The first Hmong-American to compete and earn a medal(s) in the Olympics. She won 3 medals at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo!
Sunisa Lee
Name the country that many Hmong people fled to for refuge after they were forced to leave Laos and Vietnam when the Communists won and the governments were treating them badly for working for the US during the war.
What is Thailand?
Which farming tool is used to pull weeds and dig holes for planting, a txua or a hlau?
What is a hlau?
Name 2 special occasions when traditional Hmong clothing is worn in the present day.
Black Hawk Middle School's Bilingual Resource Specialist who connects Hmong families with our school and events, translates documents, and so much more!
Mr. Lincoln Vang
Name 2 countries that many Hmong people moved to after Thailand.
What is Australia, US, Canada, France and/or Germany?
Name 2 staples in traditional Hmong food.
What is steamed rice, herbs, red chili, vegetables and/or meat?
What is November or December?
MMSD has approximately 25,557 full time students across schools in the city as of 2025! Of that number, 26% - 28% speak at least two languages with English as their second language (6,644 - 7,155 students) What percentage of English Language Learners do you think speak Hmong as their first language?
2%, 7% or 9%?
Roughly 9% of students with English as their second language in Madison speak Hmong at home. (~600+ students!) Hmong is the second most common language in the district.
Wisconsin has the second highest population of Hmong-speaking students in the country! (Minnesota is the highest)
The river that Hmong people had to cross to escape the persecutions from Laos and Vietnam governments after the Vietnam War.
What is the Mekong River?
Write or say "Hello" in Hmong.
Nyob zoo
The traditional Hmong embroidery that is unique and colorful and often made of geometric shapes. This artskill has existed for over a thousand years!
What is paj ntaub? (close in pronunciation or wrote it down)
Hmong-Lao Veterans Day in Wisconsin is a day when flags fly at half-staff to recognize Hmong veterans who were recruited during the Vietnam War to help fight the North Vietnamese. What day of the year is Hmong-Lao Veterans Day?