No matter where you’re from or what holidays you celebrate, you probably have a tradition that you keep each winter. Maybe you make mochi with your friends and family for New Year's Day. Or maybe you watch movies in your pajamas with your family on Christmas Eve.  

Regardless of what they are, these traditions bring us comfort, joy and togetherness during the darkest days of the year.  

MPR News host Angela Davis talks with three guests about the many unique holiday traditions in our state, where they came from and why they are important to us.  

Guests:  

• Mee Vang is the president of The United Hmong Family Inc. 




• Anton Treuer is a professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University. He specializes in tribal sovereignty and history and Ojibwe language and culture.  




• Alex Weston is the program associate at the Minnesota Historical Society.