Xow Yang at work in Discovery Park, Seattle, 1982

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Xow Yang at work in Discovery Park, Seattle, 1982

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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 had come to Washington and mostly settled in King County.

In September 1982, a group of 12 Hmong youth, refugees from Laos, worked to maintain and build trails at Discovery Park under the federally funded summer Youth Employment Program. Here, Xow Yang uses loppers to clear brush at Discovery Park.

Caption information source: Photo caption, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 4, 1982, p. C13.

ID Number: 2000.107.110.16.02

Date: 1982

Creator(s): Smith, Kurt, Photographer

Physical Description: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 10 x 8 in.

Credit: MOHAI, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, 2000.107.110.16.02, photo by Kurt Smith

Subjects: Indigenous Peoples, Immigration, Southeast Asian Immigrants, Asian American, Vietnam War, 1955-1975, Labor and Labor Unions