22-05-2017 08:24 via ktoo.org

Revisiting internment camp near Juneau promotes healing

As the raven flies, Funter Bay is less than twenty miles from downtown Juneau. The bay is nooked into the northwest corner of Admiralty Island–if you’ve traveled by boat to Hoonah or Gustavus you’ve passed it.
But did you know that was where the U.S. Government interned hundreds of Aleuts, or Unangan people, to protect them from Japanese invasion during World War II?
The internees, from St. Paul and St. George in the Pribolof Islands, were moved about 1,300 miles against their
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