RL.2.3

"Children as young as 8-years-old would participate in story cloth making."

Dia’s Journey: A Story of Survival and Resistance of the Hmong People

Students will trace a Hmong individual’s recollection of her family's migration story to the United States from Laos and intersecting identities as a daughter, refugee, American, storyteller, and cultural historian. The complicated history of war and displacement is able to be seen and discussed with students using the powerful cultural artifacts of the Hmong story cloths.

Story Cloth depicting Hmong life across Laos from Hmongstory Legacy Collection.

Tracing Stories of Home

HSS 2.1.1, W.2.3, SL.2.1, RL.2.3

Students will trace the character Mai’s family story in the “The Whispering Cloth” and understand how the Secret War contributed to the Hmong diaspora and affected what their concept of home is. This will allow students to create a story cloth to narrate their own family story of when the family moved to the local community and how and why they made the trip.

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