The Aleut Internments of World War II

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This book, one of the first ever written on its subject, focuses on Russian America and American Alaska and their impact on the native population. From the closing years of the 17th century when the Russians first set foot on the shores of the far-flung Aleutian Islands, through the war years, to the reparations hearings of the late 1970s, it sheds light on the little-known story of the Aleut people and the events in war and peace that shaped their lives. The actions that led to the internments of the Aleuts are documented through official records, letters, and personal accounts that reveal the experiences of a native people who suffered and died in the camps while posing no threat to national security in time of war. In some cases native Alaskans were held in camps that were almost as bad as the Japanese POW camps. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword by Dimitri Philemonof Foreword by Blackhawk Walters Introduction 1. delete Clash of Cultures 2. delete The Russian American Company 3. delete American Century 4. delete Missionaries and Miners 5. delete Alaska, the Last Frontier 6. delete Prelude to War 7. delete War Comes to Alaska 80 8. delete Blood on the Sand 9. delete Prisoners in the Land of the Rising Sun 10. delete Aleuts in Japan 11. delete War and Evacuation 12. delete Atka 13. delete The Pribilofs 14. delete The Voyage of the Delarof 15. delete Strangers in a Strange Land 16. delete Burnett Inlet 17. delete Ward Lake 18. delete Funter Bay 19. delete Killisnoo 20. delete Employment Opportunities 21. delete Fur Seal Operations, 1943 22. delete Home Is Where the Heart Is 23. delete Homecoming 24. delete Restitution Appendix Notes Bibliography Index