Kammala wannan magana: Mutanen Hmong sun fara zuwa yankin Midwest a 1975 ko 1976 bayan janyewar Amurka daga Yaƙin Vietnam. Suna neman mafaka a Amurka, kamar yadda da yawa suka yi aiki ko kuma suka yi aiki a cikin fada don sojojin Amurka a Laos a lokacin "
asirin yaƙi". A shekara ta 1980 akwai Hmong 408 a jihar. Da farko dai tsoffin sojan Hmong ne kawai aka ba su izinin yin ƙaura.