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“The Hmong people are primarily a farming ethnic group traditionally from China, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam. We do not have a country of our own. However, that doesn’t inhibit us from cultivating our home anywhere, wherever, we are.”

For Michelle, a first-generation Hmong American, home is in her family. ‘Tsev’ literally means home and ‘neeg’ means people.

“Hmomg people have fairly large families, so I grew up with my aunts, my uncles, their spouses, my cousins. We became these really huge communities supporting one another. That was how I was raised. That was my home, my ‘tsev neeg.’”

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