Blia Xiong, Nancy Hom (illus), Nine-In-One: Grrr! Grrr! (Hmong)
Dolly Brittan, The People of Laos
For adults
Grant Evans, A Short History of Laos: The Land in Between
Brett Dakin, Another Quiet American: Stories of Life in Laos
Stephen Mansfield, Culture Shock! Laos (Culture Shock! Guides)
Martin Stuart-Fox, A History of Laos
Bnounyavong Outhine, Mother's Beloved: Stories from Laos
Mai Neng Moua, Bamboo Among the Oaks: Contemporary Writing by Hmong Americans
Pegi Deitz Shea, The Whispering Cloth: A Refugee's Story
Lillian Faderman, I Begin My Life All Over: The Hmong and the American Immigrant Experience
Connors, Mary, Lao Textiles and Traditions. Images of Asia Series. Oxford University Press, 1996.
Cooper, Robert. The Hmong, A Guide to Traditional Lifestyles. Times Editions, Ltd., 1998.
Fadiman, Anne. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988.
Kanlaya, Dara. Legends in the Weaving. Group for Promotion of Art and Lao Textiles and the Japan Foundation Asia Center, 2001.
Mansfield, Stephen. Lao Hill Tribes: Traditions and Patterns of Existence. Oxford University Press, 2000 (2002).
Articles and Print
Bacthi, Siang, InNgeun Baccam Soulinthavong, Jack Lufkin, 'So We Stayed Together': The Tai Dam Immigrate to Iowa. Palimpsest 69:4 (1988): 163-172.
Koltyk, Jo Ann. 1993. Self-Documentation of Life in the Old and New Country. Journal of American Folklore 106:422(Autumn 1993): 435-449.
Peterson, Sally Nina. Translating Experience and the Reading of a Story Cloth. Journal of American Folklore 101:399(March 1988): 6-22.
Saltzman, Rachelle H. Lao. Encyclopedia of American Folklife. Simon J. Bronner, ed. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe: 2006.
Iowa Asian Alliance, Iowa Asian Resource Directory, '04-'05