Nelis R. Kampenga University Archives & Area Research Center

Hmong Community of Portage County

This timeline was created by Maiko Lor in 2013. It's updated and maintained by the UWSP Archives & Area Research Center.

Using the Timeline

  • This keyword searchable database consists of a timeline based on newspaper articles found in the Stevens Point Journal and The Pointer.
  • Click on the title of the article in the timeline for the name of the newspaper, date of publication, page number, and description of the article. To read the entire article, please visit the UWSP Archives.

Related Material

Related material includes the documentary film, Finding the Middle Way: The Hmong Experience in Portage County, Wisconsin = Nhriav txoj kev hauv nraub nrab: yeeb yaj duab qhia txog Hmoob lub neej, 2014 (approximately 74 minutes). The film is available on YouTube and in the UWSP Library Video Collection (IMC 3rd floor, F590.H55 F56 2014).

Film credits: Tori Jennings, producer; Kristy SeBlonka, co-producer; Matthew Brown, director; Maysee Yang Herr, cultural consultant and humanities expert; Pa Thao, cultural consultant and lead project assistant; and Song Cheng, cultural consultant and co-editor.

A PDF version of the timeline was also created for this project.

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