When the wind was a river : Aleut evacuation in World War II
by
Kohlhoff, Dean.
Title
:
When the wind was a river : Aleut evacuation in World War II
Dean Kohlhoff.
Personal Author
:
Kohlhoff, Dean.
Publication Information
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Seattle, Wash. : University of Washington Press in association with Aleutian/Pribilof Islands Association, Anchorage, ©1995.
Physical Description
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xvi, 234 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN
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9780295974033
Abstract
:
World War II came to the North Pacific in June 1942. Alaska's Native people living on the Aleutian and Pribilof islands, the Aleuts, felt its impact as did no other American citizens in that region. Forty-two residents of Attu Island were captured and imprisoned in Japan and, in response to Japanese bombings of Dutch Harbor and invasions of Kiska Island, the American military evacuated the remaining 881 Aleuts from the islands to camps in southeastern Alaska. The story of the removal of the Aleuts is little known outside Alaska. Dean Kohlhoff delved extensively into civilian and government archives, as well as videotapes of Aleuts chronicling their wartime experiences, to compile this engrossing account of the evacuation.
Personal accounts tell of life in the temporary camps, in which the makeshift accommodations arranged by the Department of the Interior failed to reflect the good intentions of some Interior officials. One visitor to the Funter Bay camp wrote, "I have no language at my command which can adequately describe what I saw ... I have seen some tough places in my days in Alaska, but nothing to equal the situation in Funter." Upon their eventual return, the Aleuts found that their homes had been devastated by weather, fire, and both Japanese and American military operations, and they began the fight for reparation for loss of property and income that would affect them long after the war. Finally the Civil Rights Act of 1988, which awarded damage claims to Japanese Americans relocated during the war, led to restitution for the Aleuts, who Congress and the president agreed had been mistreated.
Bibliography Note
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-227) and index.
Subject Term
:
Aleuts.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Alaska.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
Variant Title
:
Aleut evacuation in World War two
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Anchorage Museum | D810 .A53 K64 1995 | Book | Non-Circulating Collection |
APL Eagle River | N 940.531503971 KOHLHOF | Book | Due 6/18/24 |
APL Loussac | AK-R 940.531503971 KOHLHOF | Reference Book | Non-Fiction Level 3 |
APL Loussac | N 940.531503971 KOHLHOF | Book | Non-Fiction Level 3 |
APL Loussac | N 940.531503971 KOHLHOF | Book | Alaska Collection Storage |
APL Loussac | N 940.531503971 KOHLHOF | Book | Non-Fiction Level 3 |
APL Muldoon | N 940.531503971 KOHLHOF | Book | General Collection |
ARLIS | D810.A53K64 1995 | Book | General Collection |
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Kenai Community | ALASKA 940.53 KOH | Book | Alaska Non-fiction |
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Petersburg Public | ALASKA HISTORY MILITARY | Book | Alaska |
Seward Community | AK 940.53 KOH | Book | Alaska |
SLN Mnt Edgecumbe High | AK 940.53 KOH | Book | Alaska |
SLN Sitka High | AK 940.53 KOH | Book | Alaska |
State Library Historical | D810.A53K64 1995 | Book | In Library Use Only |
State Library Juneau | D810.A53K64 1995 | Book | Circulating Collection |
Sutton Public | ALASKA 940.53 KOHLHOFF | Book | Alaska |
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UAA Kenai | D810 A53 K64 1995 | Book | Alaskana Collection |
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