News and reports from the Department of the Interior.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

News Release: San Juan Island National Historical Park, Washington.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...