Huron School District
Bridge generation: Children of southeast Asian refugees carve out niche in Huron
HURON — Until age 6, Kler Hae roamed the highlands of southern Thailand after school with his friends, hunting birds with slingshots and stones. If they got lucky, they’d bring home dinner. Now he’s a real estate agent in Huron, an eastern South Dakota town of about 14,000. At age 12, Pywe Der moved to […]
Desperation and renewal: How Huron embraced new Americans and thrived
That Huron came to be a major hub of Karen culture in the Midwest was at least partially a side effect of desperation. What began as desperation for workers morphed into desperation for a school system struggling to manage its migrant population and the community’s response to it. Today, about a decade after the dust settled […]