Reflections is a Hmong Band from Morganton, North Carolina. The band was formed back in 1996 by a group of brothers, Meng, Nai, Kory, Chai Lor. Before the recording of their first album entitled, "Nkauj Hmong", they recruited guitarist and vocal Kudo Vue and two other brothers Pao & Long Her to join the band. After a year of hard work "Nkauj Reflections is a Hmong Band from Morganton, North Carolina. The band was formed back in 1996 by a group of brothers, Meng, Nai, Kory, Chai Lor. Before the recording of their first album entitled, "Nkauj Hmong", they recruited guitarist and vocal Kudo Vue and two other brothers Pao & Long Her to join the band. After a year of hard work "Nkauj Hmong" was released locally in the summer of 2000. The album quickly became a success and the band’s popularity grew within the Hmong Community. Due to the different lifestyle of the members, the band parted and went on to pursue their careers.

Band Homepage: Reflections-Band.com

By Kao Kalia Yang
Coffee House Press

Nov yog Peb Hmoob ib tug ntxhias phau ntawv uas nws muaj tsab peev xwm sau los tawm nws tus kheej coj los rau neeg thoob ntiaj teb tau nyeem txog Hmoob. "It is currently the only published Hmong memoir to make an impact in the literary world."

For anyone who is unfamiliar with the specifics of America’s most controversial military campaign prior to Iraq, Kao Kalia Yang’s splendorous debut, The Latehomecomer, should be required reading. Yang goes where few history books dare to, tracing the heartbreaking history of her Hmong family from the bomb-infested forests of Laos to the treacherous territory as a first generation Hmong family in America. Like the intricate embroidered stories that Hmong women wove when their language was outlawed, Yang resourcefully laces together narratives from her family, using her late grandmother’s stories as the thread that binds them together.

Review by : Lizzy Shramko
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"Nkauj Kab Lia Yaj yog peb Hmoob li ib tug ntxhais sau ntawv uas yog sau npau ntawv hu ua "The Latehomecomer". Nws yog ib yam zoo heev rau peb cov Hmoob txhua leej txhua tus, vim yog tau los lawm 30 tawm lub xyoo no muab xam tau tias yog thawj thawj pau ntawv uas muaj muag thoob plaws lub teb chaws America no thiab lwm teb chaws. Nws yog ib qho qauv rau peb tsoom Hmoob kom nyiam los mus sib tw xyaum sau ntawv tseg cia rau hauv Ntiaj Teb li chaw khaws ntawv. Vim yog txawm tsawg tiam tom ntej no los peb thiaj tseem khaws tau peb li Hmoob tej txuj ci, keeb kwm, teej tug tseg cia."

Together, my father and my mother and I planted treasures for me to find in the world. In the wamth of their hold, I saw how the sky was open for everyone. My life has been a series of stops on the way to finding. The sky captivates me. I stop to look. I like how the light from cars streak the wet pavement in the early dark of a rainy morning. I am swept by the lyric ideas of love. I am caught in the demands of daily life. Then: I see a spark of something on the horizon, an emotion grows inside of me, and the idea of an eruption surfaces on my consciousness, scares me, and then I set to writing.

Kao Kalia Yang Homepage: KaoKaliaYang.com

Contributed by: ccvnct.

If you want to support and free General Vang Pao, please stop! stop! saying to the news reporter that you are there to support General Vang Pao because he brought you to America, that is a totally different story, not even related to the case, and even if it is related it will not free Vang Pao. If you don't know what to say, just don't say. I, myself was there to support Vang Pao because I believed he has done nothing wrong, and he is and always will be my leader.

Look at the news reporter, they want all the community to hear the bad about Vang Pao, like you guys were saying that you were there to support Vang Pao because he brought you to America. That is just an excuse that not even related to the case, that just make him look more terrible. Remember, Vang Pao can not be free because he brought you guys to America, he can only be free if he has done nothing wrong.

Mim Tsab (I am HmongTV) yog peb Hmoob ib tug ntxhais zoo nkauj thiab tham lus hauv TV nrog cov neeg ua yeeb yam saib lawv lub hom phiaj rau yav neej pem suab yuav zoo mus npaum li cas. Nej ho soj qab mloog Mim Tsab yuav nrog cov neeg film makers (ua movie) tham saib lawv teb li cas rau peb ib tsoom Hmoob tau pom thiab hnov txog peb Hmoob tej txuj ci saib lawv teb li cas ...( Tujtaws)

Hmoob txhua leej txhua tus muaj lub hom phiaj zoo, peb Hmoob txoj kev vam meej tseeb lawm tiag yuav yog pib tej no ib qho zuj zus tuaj mus.  Peb Hmoob Freedom thov muab kev txhawb nqa thiab foom kom sawv daws tsuas muaj ua tau mus raws li sawv daws lub siab nyiam thiab siab ntshaw. (Kevin)