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1. Interview with Tenzin Tsering
- Creator:
- Tsering, Tenzin
- Date Created:
- 2005-08-26
- Description:
- Tenzin Tsering was born in Dharamsala, India. He attended school in Mussoorie, India before moving to Minnesota in 1998 to attend DeLaSalle High School. He is pursuing his undergraduate degree at Hamline University. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Parents, family, wanting to come to the United States, first impressions of school in Minnesota, differences and similarities between schools in India and the U.S., English, future career, Chinese language, selecting a college, college experiences, Students for a Free Tibet (SFT), activism, including youth and college, Hamline University, attending college with other Tibetan students, starting a political organization, community, preserving culture, Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota (TAFM), citizenship, challenges of being an international student, race, Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), Westerners and the Tibetan cause, China, roots, identity, Middle-Way, differences and similarities between Tibetan and American culture, Tibetan politics, religion.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
2. Interview with Tenzin Yangdon
- Creator:
- Yangdon, Tenzin
- Date Created:
- 2005-09-24
- Description:
- Tenzin Yangdon was born in Rajpur, India. She moved to Minnesota in 1996. Yangdon graduated from high school in Minnesota and is pursuing her undergraduate degree at Hamline University. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Parents, family, being sent to boarding school, differences and similarities between schools in India and the United States, family separation, coming to Minnesota, initial reaction to Minnesota, making friends, deciding to go to college, selecting a college, selecting a career, Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), Middle-Way, autonomy, independence, Tibetan politics, Students for a Free Tibet (SFT), Westerners and the Tibetan cause, community, college experiences, Tibetan Cultural Center, preserving culture, differences and similarities between Tibetan, Indian, and American culture, working on the Minnesota Tibetan Oral History Project.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
3. Interview with Kim Sueoka
- Creator:
- Sueoka, Kim
- Date Created:
- 2012-03-09
- Description:
- Kim Sueoka was born in Kaua'i, Hawaii. She was a trained musician and singer. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Early life in Hawaii and family history - picture brides and how her family came to Hawaii - education - singing and music - traditional Hawaiian music - coming to the Evansville, Indiana to study music therapy - coming to Minnesota - identifying herself as a Japanese American - working as a freelance singer and as part of the Rose Ensemble as a story teller and performer - religion - going back to Hawaii - comparing living in Minnesota to Hawaii - controversy around singing ancient Hawaiian songs - goals for the future, to be and making her career in the arts work financially.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
4. Interview with John Choi
- Creator:
- Choi, John
- Date Created:
- 2011-01-17
- Description:
- John Choi was born in Seoul, South Korea but immigrated to St. Paul, Minnesota with his parents at the age of 3. He received his bachelor's degree from Marquette University and his law degree from Hamline University. John was the Saint Paul City Attorney from 2006-2010, and is currently the Ramsey County Attorney. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Early life - family - the importance of education to Korean immigrant families - embracing American culture as a child - college - practicing law - becoming socially and politically active - becoming St. Paul Attorney and his achievements at the job - getting more Koreans active in society and politics - campaign for Ramsey County Attorney - similarities between all immigrants to the United States.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
5. Interview with Frank Fernandez
- Creator:
- Fernandez, Frank
- Date Created:
- 2011-01-17
- Description:
- Frank Fernandez was born in Las Vegas, Nevada. Fernandez attended Arizona State University majoring in political science. He later moved to Minnesota and attended Hamline University School of Law. He held several positions including executive director of the Nevada Association of Health Plans. Fernandez is currently the vice president of government programs for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota, president and CEO of Blue Plus, and co-chair to the Diversity Council. He is married with two children. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Jobs held - family background - childhood - Latino community - diversity - playing soccer - religion - bilingual in Spanish and English - folkloric dance and traditions - racism - relationships - friendships - Minnesota weather - Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio - Latino Law Student Association - Hispanic Bar Association - Latino businesses - citizenship - Jovenes de Salud - working with high risk Latino youth - translating - National Society of Hispanic MBAs - fundraising - law school - and community involvement.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
6. Interview with Chitra Subrahmanian
- Creator:
- Subrahmanian, Chitra
- Date Created:
- 2001-11-11
- Description:
- Chitra Subrahmanian was born in India and immigrated with her parents to the U.S. She attended SILC as an older student and now serves as the principal of SILC. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Personal background; participation in SILC; carpooling; experiences as a student; social connections; SILC Achievement Project; SILC Day; Festival of Nations; visits to India; benefits of attendance; experiences as an administrator; comparing and contrasting professional and volunteer administration; focus groups; facilitating knowledge transfer; school board; committee work; preschool program; outreach to adopted children; vision for future.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
7. Interview with Stella Alvo
- Creator:
- Alvo, Stella
- Date Created:
- 1975-07-24
- Description:
- The main interest of this interview was Ms. Alvo's organization of Mi Cultura, a bilingual and bicultural day care center for children in St. Paul. Subjects discussed include: Mi Cultura Day Care Center - the human resources to be found in St. Paul's West Side community.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
8. Interview with Lisalan Thai
- Creator:
- Thai, Lisalan
- Date Created:
- 2010-12-22
- Description:
- Lisalan Thai was born in Da Lat, Vietnam. After experiencing the Fall of Da Lat and Saigon she left Vietnam with her son. She settled in Minnesota with the help of four Catholic churches and an adoptive family. She is a real estate agent. Subjects discussed include: Childhood - family - Fall of Da Lat - Fall of Saigon - immigrating - being "adopted" - divorce - going back to school - real estate - the American dream.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
9. Interview with Rajiv Shah
- Creator:
- Shah, Rajiv
- Date Created:
- 1997-08-22
- Description:
- Rajiv Shah was born in Uganda. He and his parents came to the United States, where he attended school in Minnesota and college in Massachusetts. Presently, he is the director of a nonprofit program and is attending medical school. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Parents' background - familiarity with parents' language - childhood memories of Africa, United Kingdom, and Canada - discrimination - family's values - volunteering experiences - future plans - travels to India - advantages and disadvantages of being a child of first generation immigrants.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
10. Interview with Hector Garcia
- Creator:
- Garcia, Hector
- Date Created:
- 2011-02-14
- Description:
- Hector Garcia was born in Mexico and raised in Mexico City. Garcfa graduated from the Instituto Tecnol=gico Aut=nomo de Mexico studying business administration. He moved to Minnesota in 1973 and later created MEX-US, a consulting company. Garcia worked as executive director for the Spanish Speaking Affairs Council and the National Conference for Community and Justice. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Family background - campesino movement - childhood - pollution in Mexico City - poverty - racism - education - Latino culture - lack of diversity in Hawthorne, California - Minnesota weather - jobs held - businesses opportunities explored - North American Free Trade Agreement - decline of Mexican peso - anti-Semitism - wanting to help the lower class - organizations - Latino community - and the Legacy Fund.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
11. Interview with Emiliano Chagil
- Creator:
- Chagil, Emiliano; United States
- Date Created:
- 4/7/2010
- Description:
- Emiliano Chagil was born in Guatemala in the city of San Lucas Tolimn. Chagil went to college in the city of Solol where he completed his bachelor's degree and later received his engineering degree at the University of San Carlos. He moved to Minnesota in 1980 because of the civil war in Guatemala. He later proved to be an influential leader for Latin communities in Minnesota and Guatemala. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Family - Guatemalan community and culture - financial struggles - Mayan and Christian religions - civil unrest - identity - landscape differences of Minnesota and Guatemala - Latino community in Minnesota - immigration - education - and refugees.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
12. Interview with Joyce Yu
- Creator:
- Yu, Joyce
- Date Created:
- 1979-06-04
- Description:
- Joyce Yu was born in 1946 in Washington, D.C., where her father was employed as a Chinese area specialist by the U.S. Department of Agriculture during World War II. Her parents, Robert and Victoria Yu, arrived in the United States from China in about 1939. They lived in southeast Minneapolis from the time of their arrival until 1941, while Robert Yu was a graduate student in agricultural economics at the University of Minnesota. Two sons, Robert and Victor, were born to the family during this period. The elder Yu completed his degree in 1941, but the family could not return to China because of war conditions in the Pacific, and they moved to Washington. In 1947, after Joyce's birth and the war's end, the family returned to China, where Robert Yu accepted a job as vice-president of the Farmers' Bank of China in Shanghai. Postwar conditions in China grew increasingly unstable, however, and the family returned to the United States in 1949, when Joyce was two and a half years old. The Yus settled in southeast Minneapolis again, and Joyce spent most of her childhood and youth in this neighborhood. She attended University High School and the University of Minnesota, from which she received a bachelor of arts degree in sociology in 1968. After graduation she was employed by the university's Office of Student Affairs from 1968 to 1973, and she also completed a year of graduate study in educational psychology. From 1973 to 1975 she worked for VISTA on the West Bank in Minneapolis. In the fall of 1975 she went to Taiwan for a year of study in Chinese language and tai chi (martial arts). Upon her return to the United States, Yu worked as student internship coordinator at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, and in August of 1977 she took a job with the Otto Bremer Foundation in St. Paul, working as a program officer, reviewing and evaluating grant proposals. In 1979 she left the Bremer Foundation to become the director of the Women's Funding Assistance Project for the Ms. Foundation, and in 1981 she was appointed executive director of the Ms. Foundation. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Family background - class and regional differences within the Chinese community in Minnesota - family structure and child rearing in the state's Chinese settlement - and the developing ethnic consciousness of young Asian Americans at the University of Minnesota during the 1960s. COMMENTS ON INTERVIEW: This interview provides valuable information on the northern intellectuals (Mandarin speakers) in the Chinese community in Minnesota, the subgroup in which Yu grew up. It also provides insight into the experience of Chinese families who have settled in the state since World War II, and of Asian students at the University of Minnesota in the 1960s.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
13. Interview with Mohamed Jama
- Creator:
- Jama, Mohammed M.
- Date Created:
- 2004-06-21
- Description:
- Mohamed Jama was born in Nairobi, Kenya but grew up in Somalia. Jama moved to Minnesota in 1992 with his immediate family and currently works as a teen outreach worker for the Street Works program. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Growing up in Somalia; traveling conditions when coming to the United States; first impressions of the United States; cultural differences; hearing stories about the United States from his father; expectations of Minnesota; life in Minnesota; the language barrier; lack of resettlement support networks in the early 1990s; gang issues in Minneapolis; positives of moving to the United States; working with AmeriCorps; the importance of the Brian Coyle Community Center; advice for future Somali immigrants; preserving Somali and Islamic culture; cultural importance of women; losing culture; negative aspects of the hip-hop" culture; evolution of Somali music; obstacles and opportunities for Somali teens; Somali involvement in politics.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
14. Interview with Mario Duarte
- Creator:
- Duarte, Mario
- Date Created:
- 2010-09-17
- Description:
- Mario Duarte was born in El Salvador, to Raul Bustamante and Maria Luisa Duarte. He attended the Dale Carnegie Institute and the National University of El Salvador for sociology. Duarte later married Esperanza Quesada and together raised four children. Due to the Civil War in El Salvador Duarte and his family escaped to the United States in 1982. He would serve as a prominent figure for the Latino community in Minnesota. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Family - financial hardships - education - community organizations - social injustice - Civil War - learning the English language - Chicano community - travel - media and radio - and identity.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
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