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News Release: WILBUR SATO. Family # 4655. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 9-1-2 and 29-8-1. My father came to the US in the early 1900’s when he was a teen. His father was in the nursery business in Pasadena and produced one of the first floral floats for the Rose Parade. His father was also an early pioneer photographer...
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Knife River Villages
News Release: ROBERT KATSUMASA OKAZAKI. Prisoner of War # 1444. POW Camp 33, Petawawa, Ontario, Canada. POW Camp 101, Angler, Ontario, Canada. My father Nobutaro Okazaki and my mother Natsu Koyama, both were born in Okayama Prefecture, Japan. At 19, Nobutaro immigrated to Victoria, British Columbia. He worked as a houseboy...
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Dearman: New SIPI president has inspired ‘Indigenous students for more than 40 years’
A member of the Navajo Nation who pledged to serve and build Tribal communities is the new president of Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute in Albuquerque, N.M.
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Rosa Winters
News Release: General Description. Splash! What’s that? You look but only see water rings. Upon closer inspection there’s a cluster of black and white eggs at the shallow edge of a pond. You hear five faint chucking sounds and a low pitched grating noise. There it is! It’s a frog sitting on a partially submerged rock.
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Lillian Malcolm
News Release: Quick Facts. Significance: Alabama Homesteader. Place of Birth: North Carolina. Date of Birth: Between 1939 and 1842. Date of Death: unknown. Place of Burial: unknown. Willis Kyles was 38 when enumerated on the 1880 Census. He was living in Uchee, Russell County, Alabama, and was listed as a farmer born in...
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Assessing Nitrogen in Sierra Nevada Lakes
News Release: LAWRENCE KIYOSHI SHINODA. Family # 20983. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 29-7-4. Written by Grace Shinoda Nakamura, Larry’s sister. My father, Kiyoshi Shinoda, came to the USA from Japan when he was 12, and my mother, Hide Watanabe, was one. Our father died when I was three and my sister Grace was six.
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Sarah Dilley Bennett
News Release: Who are you?. What is your favorite color?. What is the name of your best friend?. What is the farthest place from home you've ever visited?. What is one crazy thing you can do that no one else can?. All these things make up the you that is you - an amazing, fabulous, beautiful person. For this activity...
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Mary Liddecoat
News Release: El Sistema Nacional de Senderos invita a su familia a completar los Programas de Guardaparques Juveniles creados por los senderos nacionales. Al explorar estos senderos panorámicos e históricos nacionales a través del Programa Junior Ranger, los jóvenes aprenderán sobre algunos de los senderos que componen...
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The Transcontinental Telegraph
News Release: HIKOJI TAKEUCHI. Family # 9096. Camps: Manzanar, CA (Address: 20-14-4) and Tule Lake, CA. Written using Hikoji Takeuchi’s oral history interviews. I was born on Dec. 18, 1921 in Little Tokyo in Los Angeles. My parents were from Hiroshima, Japan. I had an older brother and sister who lived in Japan...
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Towpath Talk
News Release: SAM H. ONO. Family # 2964. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 35-12-2. Most of us relating our experience in these ID cards are Nisei or the first native-born Americans of Japanese ancestry. We are all about the same age, therefore, most of our parents had entered the United States at about the same time and...
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Juliet Brier
News Release: GRACE SHINODA NAKAMURA. Family # 2083. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 29-7-4. My father, Kiyoshi, came to the USA when he was 12. My father graduated form UC Berkeley as an electrical engineer. My mother Hide Watanabe came with her mother and father, who was a librarian, when she was one. My mother graduated...
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Cora Vernon Lee
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Davis Bayou, MS. In front of you is the CCC outlook, originally put at the end of this trail to give visitors a view of the bayou. This view is now somewhat obscured by vegetation, as the National Park Service values allowing nature to blossom as much as possible. However, the water...
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Sacagawea’s Story
News Release: JOYCE OKAZAKI. Family # 1240. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 12-9-4. My grandfather came to the United States in 1897 as a 17 year old from Odawara, Japan. My grandmother came from the same village to marry him in 1906. They lived in Pasadena where my mother was born. My father was born in Kyoto, Japan and...
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Mount Rainier National Park to move to cashless fee collection starting May 26
News Release: CLAIRE AYAKO HARADA NAKASHIMA. Family # 18359. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 29-9-3. My father Sumajiro Harada came to the United States from Japan in 1905. My mother Kimino Komatsu arrived here in 1919. Their marriage was arranged. My father was in business for 20 years, running the Los Angeles Farmers...
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Matilda and Elizabeth Sager
News Release: DAISY UYEDA SATODA. Family # 20195. Camp: Topaz, UT. Address: 9-10-A-B-C. My father Mitsuzo Uyeda was 20 when he arrived in Hawaii from Kumamoto, Japan in 1899. My mother Matsuye Moriyama was born in Oahu, HI in 1892. Her parents had left Kumamto the year before with the 17th wave of Japanese immigrants...
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Edna Brush Perkins
News Release: Gund Brewery, Wisconsin. Solar panels were installed on a new addition as part of the rehabilitation of this historic brewery. Although visible from a parking area on the site, the panels are appropriately located on top of a compatible new addition at the back of the historic property. The installation...
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Rosie Weed
News Release: Gothic Revival House, Vermont. This is another example of a minimally intrusive installation of a solar hot water system. The solar collectors are located on a new roof sheltering an access ramp added to the rear of the residence. In some instances, new additions may provide opportunities to incorporate...
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Grand Canyon National Park Announces Tips for Spring Break Travel and Shuttle Bus Schedule
News Release: An angler is a person who fishes using a rod and a line.
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