LOS ANGELES — On May 8, President Bush signed into law Senate Bill 2739, the Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008, which expanded the boundaries of the Minidoka Internment National Monument to include the Nidoto Nai Yoni Memorial commemorating the Japanese Americans of Bainbridge Island, Washington, who were the first to be forcibly removed from... Continue Reading →
Manzanar Pilgrimage: A Diversity of Faces…And Much More
MANZANAR NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE, NEAR LONE PINE, CA — For thirty-nine years, the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage has brought a diversity of faces and voices together at the site of one of ten concentration camps that imprisoned over 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II in what is commonly acknowledged as a gross violation... Continue Reading →
