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Green said the story of the Aleut internment camps and the culture and people’s gradual recovery from the experience is a rich history. “I think it’s something that everybody can learn from ...
From isolated internment camps in Southeast Alaska to Congress and the White House, this is the incredible, untold story of Aleut Americans' decades-long struggle for human and civil rights. In ...
Seventy-five years ago, the U.S. government sent 885 Alaska Natives from the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands to internment camps in Southeast Alaska. Left to virtually fend for themselves, seventy ...
During the Russian-American Period (1733 to 1867), when Alaska was a colonial possession of Russia, Russian fur-seekers decimated Aleut populations through warfare, disease, and slavery.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Mary Bourdukofsky was at home on rugged St. Paul Island one Sunday in the summer of 1942, when her husband rushed breathlessly through the door from his ...
German soldiers never set foot on the speck of land at the far end of the Aleutian Islands during World War II, but the name ...
KETCHIKAN, Alaska — John Radzilowski stood in front of a group of some 50 people Wednesday at the University of Alaska Southeast library in Ketchikan and asked for the survivors ...