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Read Part 3 >> The War A PROJECT FARM was being started at the camp, so Joe volunteered to drive a tractor, since he had …
Read Part 2 >> In a 1933 double wedding, Joe married Jean Nakata, and his sister Pauline married Jean’s brother, John Nakata, siblings from the Nakata …
I feel I have paid many times over for the position I took at Tule Lake.Certainly, you don’t go around telling people you spent time …
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Wayne Mortimer Collins is an important name for my family. I first learned about this heroic, brash and outspoken attorney nearly twenty years ago while …
You look at these pictures and they haunt you. Who were these people? What were they thinking and feeling when the photos were made? There …
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Takeshi Furumoto is an activist in Japanese American organizations and communities, a Vietnam War veteran awarded the Bronze Star, and a successful businessman. His upbringing, …
The Tule Lake-Butte Valley Fairgrounds Museum is miles from the Tule Lake camp site. It’s a small one-story building that feels almost like a portable …
Read Part 2 >> What is that story? He didn't have any papers, so I guess he got on the ship. But he worked on …
Read Part 1 >> So they're doing chicken farming and so I imagine for them they, they had to give up their farm when the war …
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It was a warm summer day in August 2022, but I could feel my feet and hands growing colder, a scratch in my throat developing. …
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