Lucky Fish Face is a Hmong cultural magazine dedicated to the preservation, celebration, and reunion of our history, language, and identity.
The Secret War displaced hundreds of thousands of Hmong villagers. After resettling into their new homes, they sent cassette letters to each other across rivers and oceans. It was the only way they could hear each other's voices again.
Today, those 50-year-old tapes are falling apart. Some of the elders whose voices are on them are already gone. When the tapes go and the elders go, there's nothing left.
That's why Lucky Fish Face built The Migration Tapes. It's a free, public archive of cassette letters Hmong families sent across the world after the Secret War. Organized by clan name and village of origin, once digitized, the tapes will live permanently at luckyfishface.com/themigrationtapes.
The Migration Tapes is the heart of Lucky Fish Face, and we launch in September 2026.
Learn More: https://www.luckyfishface.com