The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father elders " particularly the dual notions

" particularly the dual notions of interiority/soul/spirit and physicality/body and an extended notion of personhood

was also the bearer of traditional ecological knowledge and Indigenous heritage

There he was in a position to absorb the culture and traditions of Western Europeans

healers are the connective cloth between the ancient past and the present

the excavation of Native remains is a practice fraught with injustice and simmering resentments

The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father elders " particularly the dual notionsIn the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and tragedies, joys and losses. He keeps the past alive, invokes the spirits and the homeland, and records courtships, births, weddings, and wishes. Following her award winning memoir The Latehomecomer, Kao Kalia Yang now retells the life of her father, Bee Yang, the song poet a Hmong refugee in Minnesota, driven from the mountains of Laos by America's Secret War.