World War II in the Aleutian Islands: When Indigenous Alaskans were interned.
“We'd see our first star and make a wish. And the wish was to go home.”
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“We'd see our first star and make a wish. And the wish was to go home.”
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A bill that protects the graves of Unangax people in southeast Alaska awaits a signature from Gov. Mike Dunleavy after both chambers of the Alaska Legislature approved the measure.
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) —
Bill protecting Alaska Native cemetery advances to governor May 28, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A bill that protects the graves of Unangax people in southeast Alaska awaits a signature from Gov. Mike Dunleavy after both chambers of the Alaska Legislature approved the measure. The Unangax cemetery holds more than 30 graves of people who died at Funter Bay during World War II. They were relocated to two internment camps there from the Aleutian islands by U.S. forces after the Japanese military invaded. They spent much of the war at the remote spot on the western side of Ad...