Hmong American farmer Tou Lee (left) of Lee’s One Fortune Farm in North Carolina, with his wife Chue, described how important farming is not only economically but emotionally. “It’s better than having money in a jar somewhere. This is life.”
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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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