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The 2018 Tule Lake Pilgrimage: Connecting Across Generations
My Experience with Nikkei Children at the 2018 Tule Lake Pilgrimage
This year was my third Tule Lake Pilgrimage and it was extra special for me. An important event at the pilgrimage is an “Intergenerational Group Discussion,” where attendees are assigned to be a member of a group. Our group had 12 people in it, including two facilitators and me. The youngest members of our group were eight and eleven years old. Sansei adults made up the rest of the group. I was designated as the group’s “Resource Person.” According to the pilgrimage organizers, a Resource person is someone who was incarcerated in a U.S. Concentration Camp during …
