Wikipedia:WikiProject Minnesota/List of wanted pages by topic

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Lists

Missing articles from a list of MNopedia topics

General

List of James Beard Award nominees and awardees in Minnesota

Art

Ta-coumba Aiken, St. Paul painter and muralist^[1]
Maurice Carlton (artist), sculptor^[1]
Kat Corrigan^[2]

Mia

Collection

Vincenzo Coaci^[3]

Asian American

Ananya Dance Theatre, contemporary Indian-Native American fusion dance studio in Frogtown^[4]
Asia Mall
Kathy Mouacheupao^[5]
Iris Shiraishi, taiko drummer^[5]
Cheng-Khee Chee, Chinese American watercolorist, University of Minnesota Duluth professor^[5]
Little Laos on the Prairie^[5]
Refuge of the InvisibLao, art exhibition^[5]
Chùa Niệm Phật/Niem Phat Buddhist Temple
Chùa Phat-An Temple/Phat-An Temple
Karen Buddhist Society Temple
Little Mekong Cultural District/Little Mekong

Hmong

Hmong people in Minnesota

Dai Thao
Toua Xiong, Nou Xiong (neé Vang) of Hmongtown Marketplace
Diane Moua (pastry chef) of Diane's Place^[6]
Nengher Vang/Nengher N Vang (previously Her Vang or Neng Her Vang)
Vang Xiong^[7]
Pao Lee^[7]
Neal Thao^[7]
Zha B. Xiong^[7]
Pa Der Vang^[7]
Shou Vang^[7]
Pao Vue^[7]
Marc Heu, French pastry chef^[6]
Thony Yang, chef de cuisine at Four Seasons Hotel, Minneapolis^[6]
Oskar Ly^[1]
Yang Dao^[8]
Choua Lee, elected to Saint Paul Public Schools Board of Education in 1991, which was the start of Hmong America's "Transitional Period" (1992–1999) described by Kou Yang^[9]^[5]^[10]^[11]
Xeexeng Lee/Xeeseng Lee, artist^[12]^[13]
Lee Yang (businessman), vice president of Kaiser Permanente^[14]
Chong K. Moua, financial businessman^[15]
Thy Yang, academic^[16]
Lee Pao Xiong, academic^[16]
Kao Choua Vue, founded Qhia Dab Neeg Film Festival, the first Hmong film festival^[17]
T. Christopher Thao, first Hmong lawyer and founder of Hmong American Partnership^[18]^[19]
Louansee Moua, political campaign manager^[20]^[21]
Gia Vang, news anchor^[22]
Boua Xiong, news anchor^[22]
May Kao Hang, Wilder Foundation president^[23]
Chao R. Lee, congressional staff^[23]
Tou Ger Xiong, activist^[23]
Neal Thao, politician^[24]
Kazoua Kong-Thao, politician^[24]
Bao Vang (businessperson), ran for office^[24], president/CEO/executive director of Hmong American Partnership^[25]
Toumoua Lee, ran for office^[24]
Pao Yang, ran for office^[26]
Christopher Moua, first Hmong candidate to run as Republican^[26]
Yang Dao, first Hmong person to earn a PhD^[27]^[25]
Shong Yang, entrepreneur^[28]
Yer Moua-Lor, first Hmong American female chiropractor^[29]
Mao Heu Thao, founder of Hmong Health Care Professionals Coalition^[30]
Sy Vang Lo of Hmong Folk Art Center^[31]
Zou Vang, reporter^[32]
Phua Xiong^[33]
Tiffany Vang^[34]^[35]

Hmong culture in Minnesota

Hmong Museum
Hmong Cultural Center, which runs Hmong Cultural Center Museum and the Hmong Resource Center Library
Koob Moo Spiritual Center
Hmong media (Hmong generate a decent amount of media globally and locally)
Hmong in media (how Hmong are portrayed), e.g. Gran Torino
"Hmong means free" - popular Hmong motto
WWW Hmong Homepage
Hmong American Partnership^[5]
Shades of Yellow, Hmong LGBTQ organization^[1]
Center for Hmong Studies at Concordia University, St. Paul^[36]
Hmong Open Partnerships in Education (HOPE) Community Academy, Hmong charter school^[37]
Prairie Seeds Academy, Hmong charter school^[37]
Hmong Academy, Hmong charter school^[37]
New Millennium Academy, Hmong charter school^[37]
World Hmong People’s Congress (1998–2008)/World Hmong Congress (2008~2009)^[38]
Congress of World Hmong People (2008)^[39]
Hmoob Mojthem Foundation/Hmoob Mojthem Radio (2006)^[40]
Association for the Advancement of Hmong Women in Minnesota^[41]^[42]
Women’s Association of Hmong and Lao^[41]

Hmong art and literature in Minnesota

The Latehomecomer by Kao Kalia Yang^[43]
The Good Hmong Girl Eats Raw Laab by Ka Vang^[43]
Cooking from the Heart (relevent draft)
Hmongland^[44]

Hmong business in Minnesota

Hmong American history

Nam Phong refugee camp, in Nam Phong district at a US military base^[50], these refugees were eventually sent to Ban Vinai Refugee Camp^[51]
Nong Khai refugee camp^[52]
Nan refugee camp in Nan province^[52]
Chiang Rai refugee camp in Chiang Rai province^[52]
Udorn refugee camp in Udon Thani ("Udorn")^[52]
Bangkok refugee camp^[52]
NaPho refugee camp in Nakhon Phanom province^[53]
Hmong Special Guerilla Units, US government–supported military in Laos^[51]
Expanded Parole Program, US State Department program to resettle Hmong refugees in the US^[51]
The Hmong Resettlement Study

History

LGBTQ

LGBTQ Minnesota

Native American

Diane Wilson (author), a Minnesota Native American author^[1]

Dakota

Dakota 38+2/Dakota 38/38+2
Mahkato Wacipi/Mankato Reconciliation Powwow
Dakota 38+2 Wokiksuye Ride/Dakota 38+2 Memorial Ride/38+2 Memorial Ride (2002–2023), Mahkato Reconciliation and Healing Ride (2024–)

Boarding schools

Somali

Karmel Mall

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Wikipedia:Meetup/Minnesota/Loft Literary Center
^ Wikipedia:Meetup/Minnesota/ArtAndFeminism (April 26, 2014)
^ Wikipedia:Meetup/Minneapolis/To Wikipedia, With Love/Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia)
^ Williams, Alessandra Lebea (2024). "Contemporary Dance on Native Land: Indigenous Solidarity in the Choreography of Ananya Dance Theatre". Dance Research Journal. 56 (1): 36–55. doi:10.1017/S014976772400007X. ISSN 0149-7677.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Wikipedia:Meetup/Wikipedia APA/Loft
^ ^a ^b ^c Vang, Ka (February 1, 2025). "Vang: Hmong cuisine is having a moment — make that a movement — thanks to these three Minnesota chefs". The Minnesota Star Tribune. Retrieved February 2, 2025.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Yang 2017, pp. 96, Table 5.2 American Tenured and Tenure-Track Professors of Hmong Descent.
^ Yang 2017, p. 22.
^ Yang 2017, p. 156.
^ Vang 2009, p. 73.
^ Pfeifer 2013, p. 16.
^ Yang 2017, p. 187.
^ Vang 2009, p. 85.
^ Yang 2017, p. 195–198.
^ Yang 2017, p. 198.
^ ^a ^b Yang 2017, p. 202.
^ Yang 2017, p. 212–213.
^ Yang 2017, p. 213–214.
^ Pfeifer 2013, p. 15–16.
^ Yang 2017, p. 222.
^ Pfeifer 2013, p. 27.
^ ^a ^b Yang 2017, p. 230.
^ ^a ^b ^c Yang 2017, p. 231.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Vang 2009, p. 77.
^ ^a ^b Aslanian, Sasha (March 2, 2015). "'We are Hmong Minnesota': A 40-year journey, remembered". MPR News. Retrieved February 16, 2025.
^ ^a ^b Vang 2009, p. 78.
^ Vang 2009, p. 79.
^ Vang 2009, p. 83.
^ Vang 2009, p. 84.
^ Vang 2009, p. 96–97.
^ User:Pingnova/sandbox/Hmong sources#Sy Vang Lo, Hmong Folk Art Center
^ Pfeifer 2013, p. 39.
^ Pfeifer 2013, p. 175.
^ "Tiffany Vang". MNopedia. November 4, 2008. Retrieved March 22, 2025.
^ Turck, Mary (December 29, 2013). "Tiffany Vang: A strong voice from St. Paul's Frogtown neighborhood". Twin Cities Daily Planet. Retrieved March 22, 2025.
^ Yang 2017, p. 34.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Vang 2009, p. 81.
^ Vang 2010, p. 319.
^ Vang 2010, p. 324.
^ Vang 2010, p. 326.
^ ^a ^b Vang 2010, p. 297.
^ Pfeifer 2012, p. 10–11.
^ ^a ^b Greasley 2016, p. 80.
^ Vang 2010, p. 365.
^ Greasley 2016, p. 507.
^ Yang 2017, p. 190–195.
^ Pfeifer 2013, p. 29.
^ Vang 2009, p. 82.
^ Pfeifer 2013, p. 44.
^ Yang 2017, p. 17-18.
^ ^a ^b ^c Yang 2017, p. 24.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Yang 2017, p. 21.
^ Yang 2017, p. 29.
^ ^a ^b Wikipedia:Meetup/Minnesota/Willmar/West-Central Minnesota History Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Pride/2017/Minnesota

Citations

Yang, Kou (October 5, 2017). The Making of Hmong America. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. ISBN 978-1-4985-4646-1.
Vang, Chia Youyee (2009). Hmong in Minnesota. Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-87351-598-6.
Vang, Her (2010). Dreaming of home, dreaming of land: displacements and Hmong transnational politics, 1975-2010. hdl:11299/95816. ISBN 978-1-124-16634-6. OCLC 676731782.
Greasley, Philip A., ed. (2016-08-08). Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume Two. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-02116-8. OCLC 964656874. Project MUSE 49193.
Pfeifer, Mark Edward; Chiu, Monica; Yang, Kou (January 31, 2013). Diversity in Diaspora: Hmong Americans in the Twenty-First Century. University of Hawai'i Press. doi:10.21313/hawaii/9780824835972.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-8248-3597-2. OCLC 846459026. Project MUSE 21545. Diversity in Diaspora at Google Books

[Loft_Lit-1] Wikipedia:Meetup/Minnesota/Loft Literary Center

[2] Wikipedia:Meetup/Minnesota/ArtAndFeminism (April 26, 2014)

[3] Wikipedia:Meetup/Minneapolis/To Wikipedia, With Love/Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia)

[4] Williams, Alessandra Lebea (2024). "Contemporary Dance on Native Land: Indigenous Solidarity in the Choreography of Ananya Dance Theatre". Dance Research Journal. 56 (1): 36–55. doi:10.1017/S014976772400007X. ISSN 0149-7677.

[APA_Loft-5] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Wikipedia:Meetup/Wikipedia APA/Loft

[Ka_Vang-6] Vang, Ka (February 1, 2025). "Vang: Hmong cuisine is having a moment — make that a movement — thanks to these three Minnesota chefs". The Minnesota Star Tribune. Retrieved February 2, 2025.

[FOOTNOTEYang201796Table_5.2_American_Tenured_and_Tenure-Track_Professors_of_Hmong_Descent-7] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Yang 2017, pp. 96, Table 5.2 American Tenured and Tenure-Track Professors of Hmong Descent.

[FOOTNOTEYang201722-8] Yang 2017, p. 22.

[FOOTNOTEYang2017156-9] Yang 2017, p. 156.

[FOOTNOTEVang200973-10] Vang 2009, p. 73.

[FOOTNOTEPfeifer201316-11] Pfeifer 2013, p. 16.

[FOOTNOTEYang2017187-12] Yang 2017, p. 187.

[FOOTNOTEVang200985-13] Vang 2009, p. 85.

[FOOTNOTEYang2017195–198-14] Yang 2017, p. 195–198.

[FOOTNOTEYang2017198-15] Yang 2017, p. 198.

[FOOTNOTEYang2017202-16] Yang 2017, p. 202.

[FOOTNOTEYang2017212–213-17] Yang 2017, p. 212–213.

[FOOTNOTEYang2017213–214-18] Yang 2017, p. 213–214.

[FOOTNOTEPfeifer201315–16-19] Pfeifer 2013, p. 15–16.

[FOOTNOTEYang2017222-20] Yang 2017, p. 222.

[FOOTNOTEPfeifer201327-21] Pfeifer 2013, p. 27.

[FOOTNOTEYang2017230-22] Yang 2017, p. 230.

[FOOTNOTEYang2017231-23] Yang 2017, p. 231.

[FOOTNOTEVang200977-24] Vang 2009, p. 77.

[We_are_Hmong_Minnesota-25] Aslanian, Sasha (March 2, 2015). "'We are Hmong Minnesota': A 40-year journey, remembered". MPR News. Retrieved February 16, 2025.

[FOOTNOTEVang200978-26] Vang 2009, p. 78.

[FOOTNOTEVang200979-27] Vang 2009, p. 79.

[FOOTNOTEVang200983-28] Vang 2009, p. 83.

[FOOTNOTEVang200984-29] Vang 2009, p. 84.

[FOOTNOTEVang200996–97-30] Vang 2009, p. 96–97.

[31] User:Pingnova/sandbox/Hmong sources#Sy Vang Lo, Hmong Folk Art Center

[FOOTNOTEPfeifer201339-32] Pfeifer 2013, p. 39.

[FOOTNOTEPfeifer2013175-33] Pfeifer 2013, p. 175.

[34] "Tiffany Vang". MNopedia. November 4, 2008. Retrieved March 22, 2025.

[35] Turck, Mary (December 29, 2013). "Tiffany Vang: A strong voice from St. Paul's Frogtown neighborhood". Twin Cities Daily Planet. Retrieved March 22, 2025.

[FOOTNOTEYang201734-36] Yang 2017, p. 34.

[FOOTNOTEVang200981-37] Vang 2009, p. 81.

[FOOTNOTEVang2010319-38] Vang 2010, p. 319.

[FOOTNOTEVang2010324-39] Vang 2010, p. 324.

[FOOTNOTEVang2010326-40] Vang 2010, p. 326.

[FOOTNOTEVang2010297-41] Vang 2010, p. 297.

[FOOTNOTEPfeifer201210–11-42] Pfeifer 2012, p. 10–11.

[FOOTNOTEGreasley201680-43] Greasley 2016, p. 80.

[FOOTNOTEVang2010365-44] Vang 2010, p. 365.

[FOOTNOTEGreasley2016507-45] Greasley 2016, p. 507.

[FOOTNOTEYang2017190–195-46] Yang 2017, p. 190–195.

[FOOTNOTEPfeifer201329-47] Pfeifer 2013, p. 29.

[FOOTNOTEVang200982-48] Vang 2009, p. 82.

[FOOTNOTEPfeifer201344-49] Pfeifer 2013, p. 44.

[FOOTNOTEYang201717-18-50] Yang 2017, p. 17-18.

[FOOTNOTEYang201724-51] Yang 2017, p. 24.

[FOOTNOTEYang201721-52] Yang 2017, p. 21.

[FOOTNOTEYang201729-53] Yang 2017, p. 29.

[Willmar-54] Wikipedia:Meetup/Minnesota/Willmar/West-Central Minnesota History Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

[WLP_2017_MN-55] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Pride/2017/Minnesota

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