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A painstakingly researched account details the tragic and triumphant story of the Eagles, a high school football team from Cody, Wyoming's World War II Japanese-American incarceration camp.
Spring, 1942. The United States government forced 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes and sent them to incarceration camps across the West. Nearly 14,000 of them landed on the outskirts of Cody, Wyoming, at the base of Heart Mountain. They faced racism,...
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Wyoming's nineteen prisoner of war camps held several thousand incarcerated Italian and German prisoners during World War II. Historical records, photographs and personal stories shared by camp residents reveal details about this little-known part of the state's history. Local agricultural and timber industries utilized POW labor, while positive relationships developed between the camp's civilian residents and prisoners. Author Cheryl O'Brien recounts...
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Lee Ann Roripaugh has been hailed by Ishmael Reed as "one of the brightest talents" writing poetry today. In this collection, she gives voice to the Japanese immigrants of the American West. In an unforgiving land of dirt and sagebrush, mothers labor to teach their children of the ocean, old men are displaced by geography and language, and the ghosts of Hiroshima clamor for peace. Lee Ann Roripaugh's exquisitely crafted poems rise from the pages of...
10) Hello Maggie!
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The author tells about his and his family's experiences as Japanese American internees at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming from 1942 to the end of World War II. During that time, he made friends with a magpie whom he named Maggie.
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Poignant documentary about an extraordinary woman, artist Estelle Ishigo, one of the few Caucasians to be interned with 110,000 Japanese Americans in 1942. When internment came, Ishigo refused to be separated from her Japanese-American husband, and lived with him for four years behind barbed wire in the desolate Heart Mountain camp in Wyoming. During internment, the artist recorded the rigors of camp life with unusual insight, depicting the internees'...
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These stories were written primarily for my nephews and nieces and other members of the family because they have no clue about our history and what had happened during the Second World War. There are 120,000 different stories from 120,000 of Japanese Americans who were put in the concentration camp and my story is just one of many. Many have suppressed the past and forgot about them. I feel the story must be told. This is just my story and how I remembered...
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"This is a story about the United States Government's abrogation of a people's civil rights, labeling them as undesirable for military service, then asking them to volunteer for the Army, and eventually drafting them out of concentration camps and sending those who resisted from the prison they inhabited to federal penitentiaries at Leavenworth, Kansas and McNeil Island, Washington."--Introduction.
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pt.1. History of Heart Mountain Camp. Antoinette Noble, Oct.4, 1995 (ca. 90 min.) -- pt.2. Discussion of "Without due process". Roger Taylor, Dr. David Kathka, Oct.11, 1995 (ca. 30 min.) -- pt.3. Memories of the camp: inside and outside. Antoinette Noble, moderator with Kaoru Inouye, Velma Kessel, Frank Emi, Oct.18, 1995 (ca. 90 min.) -- pt.4. Panel on redress and reparation. Dr. Maggie Murdock, moderator with Dudley Gardner, Paul Tsuneishi, Christopher...