Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Summary
Lee Ann Roripaugh has been hailed by Ishmael Reed as "one of the brightest talents" writing poetry today. In this collection, she gives voice to the Japanese immigrants of the American West. In an unforgiving land of dirt and sagebrush, mothers labor to teach their children of the ocean, old men are displaced by geography and language, and the ghosts of Hiroshima clamor for peace. Lee Ann Roripaugh's exquisitely crafted poems rise from the pages of...
Author
Summary
Unlike too many social historians, Nelson never forgets the human beings who are the actors in the historical process. He shows us a picture of Americans operating under stress conditions in which some of the oppressed also become oppressors. Thus, despite its specific focus, Nelson's book illuminates one of the central phenomena of the twentieth century, the bureaucratic oppression and incarceration of human beings (excerpt from foreword).
Author
Summary
"This work records the history of the Heart Mountain Relocation Center beginning on December 7, 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, to April 22, 1953, when the Heart Mountain Post Office closed because nobody lived there anymore. Heart Mountain Relocation Center was of one of the ten prison camps built by the Government in the summer of 1942 to incarcerate persons of Japanese ancestry living along the West Coast after Pearl Harbor. At its peak,...
Author
Formats
Summary
As children, Shirley Ann Higuchi and her brothers knew Heart Mountain only as the place their parents met, imagining it as a great Stardust Ballroom in rural Wyoming. As they grew older, they would come to recognize the name as a source of great sadness and shame for their older family members, part of the generation of Japanese Americans forced into the hastily built concentration camp in the aftermath of Executive Order 9066.Only after a serious...
Author
Summary
A painstakingly researched account details the tragic and triumphant story of the Eagles, a high school football team from Cody, Wyoming's World War II Japanese-American incarceration camp.
Spring, 1942. The United States government forced 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes and sent them to incarceration camps across the West. Nearly 14,000 of them landed on the outskirts of Cody, Wyoming, at the base of Heart Mountain. They faced racism,...
Author
Summary
During World War II, Cheyenne, Wyoming native Alan O'Hashi and his family avoided life in internment camps such as Heart Mountain. Alan now documents the overt and quiet racism pervasive there and throughout the United States and relates his experiences to current struggles and the issue of civility within society.
Author
Summary
Heart Mountain beckons from her 8,000 foot perch, for fifty miles in every direction. The Crow people thought she looked like a buffalo heart, and have gathered here for centuries. My grandparents, and others, homesteaded on or near this mountain, since the early 1900's. This mountainous chunk of limestone sticking up in the center of Wyoming's Big Horn Basin is a geological marvel. Meart Mountain's story and history are further witnessed by brass...
Summary
pt.1. History of Heart Mountain Camp. Antoinette Noble, Oct.4, 1995 (ca. 90 min.) -- pt.2. Discussion of "Without due process". Roger Taylor, Dr. David Kathka, Oct.11, 1995 (ca. 30 min.) -- pt.3. Memories of the camp: inside and outside. Antoinette Noble, moderator with Kaoru Inouye, Velma Kessel, Frank Emi, Oct.18, 1995 (ca. 90 min.) -- pt.4. Panel on redress and reparation. Dr. Maggie Murdock, moderator with Dudley Gardner, Paul Tsuneishi, Christopher...
