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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 ...
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 ...
FAIRBANKS — Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and subsequent efforts to invade the Aleutian Islands, the U.S. government organized the forced relocation of indigenous Aleuts from ...
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 ...
There's another tragic and untold story of American citizens who were also interned during the war. They are the 881 Aleuts from Alaska who were held for three years.