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Cache Valley, Utah is the home of Burmese Muslim, Karen, and Eritrean refugees. Documenting and preserving their stories is an important goal of Utah State University’s Fife Folklore Archives (FFA). In May 2015, USU’s FFA and Folklore Program, with help from the Karen community, hosted a Library of Congress Field School for Cultural Documentation: “Voices: Refugees in Cache Valley.” Field school students worked to document Cache Valley’s recent refugee communities. This collection, Folk Coll 58: Cache Valley Refugee Oral History Project, houses the physical recordings and associated materials of the interviews which took place during this field school.

You can explore this collection in two ways:

View the Digital Exhibits:

• Voices: Burmese Muslims in Cache Valley, Utah
• Voices: Eritrean Refugees in Cache Valley, Utah
• Voices: Karen Refugees in Cache Valley, Utah

Or view the individual audio, transcript, and photographs for our interviewees:

Burmese Muslim Refugees:

• Har Be Bar
• Ka Mar
• Ka Sin
• Kaung Lay
• Sa Jan
• Ya He Ma

Eritrean Refugees:

• Afeworki Woldemichael
• Berhane Debesai Abraha
• Kahsay Berhe Gebremedhin
• Seltene Gebreselasie Gebretinsa

Karen Refugees:

• Aye Win
• Eh Htoo
• Kyaw Eh
• Pyo Nwe
• Snay Tun
• Tun Lay

Project Credits:

• Deanna Allred, Cami Dilg, David Giles, Meagan E. Gill, Bethany Hanks, Magen Olsen, Wes Van de Water, Hilary Warner-Evans, Heidi Williams: Fieldworkers (interviewers, recordists, photographers, transcriptionists, metadata creators, digital exhibit curators)
• Berhane Debesai Abraha, Chit Moe, Har Be Bar: Community scholars and interpretors
• Lisa Gabbert (Director, Folklore Program, USU): Field School faculty
• Alison Gardner (Digital Initiatives Assistant): Metadata instructor
• Susan Gross (Susan Gross Oral History Transcription Services): Transcriptionist
• Margaret Kruesi (Metadata Specialist, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress): Field School faculty
• Darcy Pumphrey (Digital Projects Coordinator, USU Library): Digital collection landing page supporter, image and audio converter, file naming reviewer
• Mikkel Robb (Graphic Designer, USU Library): Landing page graphic designer
• Guha Shankar (Program Specialist, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress): Field School faculty, recordist, photographer
• Sara Skindelien (Metadata Coordinator Special Collections, USU Library): Metadata manager
• Randy Williams (Fife Folklore Archives Curator and Oral History Program Director, Special Collections & Archives, USU Library): Field School faculty, landing page text writer, collection processor, digital collection project director
• Liz Woolcott (Metadata Librarian, USU Library): Metadata and platform manager