The cover of the August 2013 issue of Hmong Times. The issue featured details on the funeral of May Song Vang, also known to the Hmong people as Niam Maiv Ntxhoo or Niam Nais Phoo Vaj Pov. Vang, the youngest wife of General Vang Pao, had died on August 1, 2013. Photograph by Cheu Lee; used with the permission of Cheu Lee.
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The March 2011 issue of Hmong Times, which featured a story about the life and death of General Vang Pao. General Vang had died on January 6, 2011. Photograph by Cheu Lee; used with the permission of Cheu Lee.

The cover of the first issue of Hmong Pages, published on July 1, 2010. Photograph by Cheu Lee; used with the permission of Cheu Lee.

Originally published in 1931, “Tony Passes” was published by multiple newspapers following Peterson’s death from complications of tuberculosis a year later. Moe, Lawrence. “The Poetry of Colorado Pete.” Shevlin, MN: Clearwater County Historical Society, 2008.

Arthur Peterson weaving with a peg loom during one of his convalescent periods, ca. early 1930s. Moe, Lawrence. “The Poetry of Colorado Pete.” Shevlin, MN: Clearwater County Historical Society, 2008.

Originally published in March of 1930, “Nothing Will Matter” displays Peterson’s frequent themes of lost love and melancholy. Moe, Lawrence. “The Poetry of Colorado Pete.” Shevlin, MN: Clearwater County Historical Society, 2008.

Peterson wrote this poem from a hospital in Arizona for his mother while she was gravely ill in Minnesota in hopes that she would see it in the Chicago Tribune. She didn’t live to see “Memory Quilt;” it was coincidentally published on the day of her funeral. Moe, Lawrence. “The Poetry of Colorado Pete.” Shevlin, MN: Clearwater County Historical Society, 2008.

Originally published December 8, 1926. Moe, Lawrence. “The Poetry of Colorado Pete.” Shevlin, MN: Clearwater County Historical Society, 2008.

Moe, Lawrence. “The Poetry of Colorado Pete.” Shevlin, MN: Clearwater County Historical Society, 2008.