Lao-centered restaurants now stretch across the US from Morganton, North Carolina, to Wasilla, Alaska. The Lao Food Movement has become a way for Lao and Laotian Americans to shape their identity and presence in America since their resettlement in the late 1970s.
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The Asian American Studies Center acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin, So. Channel Islands) and pay our respects to the honuukvetam (ancestors), ‘ahiihirom (elders), and ‘eyoohiinkem (relatives/relations) past, present, and emerging.
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