Social Studies
Published on Nov 20, 2015
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CHAPTER 2 LIFE BEFORE WAR
A FARMING PEOPLE
As you may know the Hmong are good at farming, making rice, beans, and potatoes. Well did you also know they live in huts and those huts are made close to their parents or grandparents hut. Also huts were often crowded.
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Planting Rice
If you did not know, rice is the main food in Hmong culture, children would weed and clear the fields before they could poke holes in the soil to drop in seeds of rice.
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Farming On The Mountainside
There is a lot of fields in Laos, where the Hmong would plant rice and beans to sell. They would also make woven baskets by hand.
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Everyone Must Work
Did you know that Hmong men, women and children had to work in the fields and around there home, and all the work was done by hand.
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Little Time For School
At times kids did get to go to school, because of all the work around there house or community. Also before the war, Hmong children attended school.
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The Fruits Of War
During the war the Hmong fled to the nearest jungle to prevent getting harmed or even killed.
Photo by John Pavelka
