Middle school students in Oklahoma City are being taught how to gather oral histories from Asian Americans, reports the Oklahoman.
You can watch a brief video of a lesson being taught to the students below.
The Oklahoma History Center received a grant of $2,500 from the Smithsonian Institution for the project and is facilitating the lessons.
The first Asians arrived in Oklahoma in 1889 and today the state is home to 3 million Asian Americans.
“I want to know what brought them to the United States during the land run,” 12-year-old Sam Wishon said. “I was thinking about how they must have felt coming here and looking for a better life for themselves and for their children. Here their children could go to college or get jobs.”
You can read more about the project in the Oklahoman.
