107 results for: Southeast Asian Immigrants
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Saechao family, Burien, June 16, 1983
The 15-member Saechao family, shown here, arrived in Seattle in early 1983. They had fled from the Vietnamese army in Laos in 1975, leaving the Mien village where they were prosperous farmers, to walk for 15 days to Thailand. The family spent six years in Thai camps before being sponsored to come to Burien, Washington. There, the large family lived…
ID Number:2000.107.110.15.01
Date:1983
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Soukasone and Vilae family at table, Bellevue, July 19, 1981
Approximately 4,500 Southeast Asian refugees settled in King County in 1981, of whom nearly half were from Laos. They were among the 24,000 Southeast Asians to come to Washington State between 1975 and 1981, in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.The Vilai and Sousakone families were among those who fled Laos and arrived in Washington in 1981. Here, Silioth, 4,…
ID Number:2000.107.110.15.02
Date:1981
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Mey Seng Saechao, Seattle, August 6, 1981
Mien and Hmong women from Laos learn needlework at an early age, and use their skills to make the traditional embroidered clothing and accessories worn by their people. The women continued to embroider while in refugee camps after fleeing Laos in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and Laotian Civil War, and after emigrating to the US.Mien and Hmong women…
ID Number:2000.107.110.15.03
Date:1981
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Hmong refugees waiting for meeting, Seattle, March 27, 1982
The Hmong are a people whose historical homeland is in Southeast Asia and southern China. Hmong people came to Washington as refugees after the Vietnam War and the Laotian Civil War. Many Hmong were recruited by the US to fight in these conflicts and were forced to flee after the North Vietnamese victory in 1975. By 1982, about 8,000 Hmong…
ID Number:2000.107.110.16.01
Date:1982
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Xow Yang at work in Discovery Park, Seattle, 1982
The Hmong are a people whose historical homeland is in Southeast Asia and southern China. Hmong people came to Washington as refugees after the Vietnam War and the Laotian Civil War. Many Hmong were recruited by the US to fight in these conflicts and were forced to flee after the North Vietnamese victory in 1975. By 1982, about 8,000 Hmong…
ID Number:2000.107.110.16.02
Date:1982
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Somvilay family reunion at SeaTac airport, Seattle, January 13, 1983
The Somvilay family of Laos was living in a refugee camp in Thailand in 1980 when their 16-year-old daughter, Manichanh, was kidnapped and brought to Bangkok. Manichanh eventually escaped and returned to the camp, but her family had already emigrated to Seattle. The Somvilays learned their daughter was alive in late 1981, and the process to rescue her from the…
ID Number:2000.107.110.16.03
Date:1983
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Yao Unaf Saeturn farming near Woodinville, July 21, 1982
The Indochinese Farm Project began in 1982 with 18 acres of land along the Sammamish River. Funded in part by King County and the Pike Place Market Preservation and Development Authority (Market PDA), the Indochinese Farm project was a joint project of the Washington State Commission on Asian American Affairs and Bethany Presbyterian Church. Through the project, refugees from Laos,…
ID Number:2000.107.110.16.04
Date:1982
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Shoua Chang working on her farm near Woodinville, 1984
The Indochinese Farm Project began in 1982 with 18 acres of land along the Sammamish River. Funded in part by King County and the Pike Place Market Preservation and Development Authority (Market PDA), the Indochinese Farm project was a joint project of the Washington State Commission on Asian American Affairs and Bethany Presbyterian church. Through the project, refugees from Laos…
ID Number:2000.107.110.16.05
Date:1984
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Da C. Le, editor of the Vietnam Times, in his office, Seattle, January 1992
In 1992, Da Le was editor of the Vietnam Times, a Vietnamese language newspaper based in Seattle. Le's paper advocated for normalizing relations between Vietnam and the US and for the end of a trade embargo imposed by the US against Vietnam. In response, a group called the Movement Against Assistance to Communist Vietnam distributed a leaflet among Seattle's Vietnamese…
ID Number:2000.107.111.17.02
Date:1992
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Terri Mast and daughter Kalayaan Domingo, August 5, 1982
Terri Mast is an activist and labor leader from Seattle. She was involved in the antiwar and women’s rights movements, and was an important figure in the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP). She helped start the Committee for Justice for Domingo and Viernes (CJDV) and led the International Longshore & Warehouse Union Local 37. As of 2022, Mast is secretary-treasurer…
ID Number:2000.107.119.32.01
Date:1982