Books
For children, 4-8 years

• Dia Cha, Dia's Storycloth (Hmong)
• Steve Epstein, Lao Folktales: Xieng Mieng: The Cleverest Man in the Kingdom
• Steve Epstein, Lao Folktales: Tesles of Turtles, Tigers and Toads
• Lowland Lao/Lao Lum (four downloadable storybooks)
• 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

Film/Video

• SEAsite Laos Multimedia

Music

• "The Bamboo Street Musician: Thai and Laos Remix" (CD)

Web Sites

• Interviews with Khampheng Manirath
• Somphong Baccam
• Houng Baccam
• Culture for Kids
• Iowa Asian Alliance
• SEAsite
• Lao Culture
• Tai Dam Textiles
• Hmong Studies