Your Stories

Part of Hennepin History Museum's mission is to collect oral histories that represent Minnesota's recent immigrants; currently HHM does not have any data or personal stories that reflect the Bhutanese refugee community.  Helping shed light to this untold story of our current residents is vital to understanding the people who make up our community.  

The primary goal of this project was to collect 10 oral histories concerning resettlement experiences and life in Minnesota.
Click on the links below to get to our Transcriptions page, Voice recordings of interviews, and Participant's photographs section. 
For additional information, don't hesitate to contact us via our contact page or from any of our other websites.

Transcriptions 

Transcriptions are available in PDF and JPEG formats. Each interview is transcribed according to the  best practices of the American Society of Archivists. 

You can download transcriptions as individual files or as an aggregated file with all the interviews.

Recordings

All interviews are recorded and available for download or playback.

The files are in MP3 format  that can be played on most digital devices and computers.

You can also find the recordings on our YouTube channel. 

Photographs

During the research and development of the project, we will try to accumulate photographs and documents that are relevant to the Bhutanese refugee communities in Minnesota.

The documents will be scanned and will be available in our Gallery and for download in JPEG format.

Methodology

The documentation of the project, interview summaries and  presentations are available in PDF format.

Additional research information is also provided in our Articles Section for further background about the Bhutanese refugees.