Vivid Memories Of Tule Lake Internment Camp | The Daily 360 | The New York Times
A survivor of a maximum-security Japanese internment camp recalls his experience at Tule Lake in Northern California. See what remains of the camp in this 360 video.
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WORLD WAR II--TULE LAKE INTERNMENT CAMP AND POW CAMP
Tule Lake Internment Camp
Two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on December 7,1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order No. 9066, a proclamation that ultimately consigned 110,000 Japanese Americans to ten internment camps scattered throughout the United States.
Tule Lake was the largest of the internment camps with a peak population of 18,789 persons of Japanese descent. Tule Lake was the only camp turned into a high-security segregation center, ruled by martial law and occupied by the United States Army.
Stripped of their constitutional rights, Japanese American men, women and children were allowed one trunk per person and sent to camps around the country - leaving behind their homes, businesses and personal belongings built over a lifetime.
Tule Lake Prisoner of War Camp
Just a few miles north of the ancient lava flows of Lava Beds National Monument - nestled next to a high bluff -- lies a group of buildings weathered by more than sixty-years of extreme temperatures and the dry dust-filled winds of the Modoc Plateau.
These rustic buildings, scattered like unwanted tumbleweeds in the wind, once housed Japanese American internees, and both Italian and German prisoners-of-war.
The Tule Lake Branch Prisoner of War Camp (Camp Tulelake) was originally used as a Civilian Conservation Corps camp in the 1930's. (This camp should not be confused with the nearby Tule Lake War Relocation Center.) The camp, built between 1935 and 1938, contained some thirty structures - including administration, barracks, mess hall and hospital -- all grouped around a central courtyard.
Japanese Americans who were interned at the Tule Lake Relocation Center (five miles to the east) who refused to answer the WRA's loyalty questionnaire were arrested and temporarily held at the CCC camp. A second group of Japanese Americans arrived in October of 1943 when evacuee farm workers at the Tule Lake Relocation (Segregation) Center went on strike. To break the strike, 234 Japanese Americans from other relocation centers were brought in to harvest crops in the area. For their protection, the Japanese Americans were housed at the CCC camp.
As the war intensified in Europe, modifications were made to the CCC camp. A double fence was erected to form a compound around the barracks and mess hall. Four guard towers with searchlights were built at the corners; a patrol road, gate and sentry post were added as well.
Italian POWs lived at the camp first and then were replaced by German POWs in late 1944, after the Allied invasion of Normandy, France. The Italian and German POWs were brought in to help local farmers clear canals of moss and algae and to help in harvesting their crops. The Italian and German POWs were often paid more than the Japanese American internees to do the same type of work. Camp Tulelake reached its peak population of more than 800 POWs by the end of October 1944.
Today, only five of the original CCC buildings remain. The buildings, which include the mess hall and kitchen, a barracks, garage, paint shop, and pump house, are presently abandoned and in poor condition.
Camp Tulelake now resides on land within the Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge. A barbed wire fence prevents public access to the buildings and no signs are posted to indicate the structures' historical significance. The current plan for the CCC/World War II POW camp is the demolition and destruction of the remaining buildings.
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The Tulelake camp was a federal work facility and internment camp located in Siskiyou County, five miles west of Tulelake, California.It was established by the United States government in 1935 during the Great Depression for vocational training and work relief for young men, in a program known as the Civilian Conservation Corps.The camp was established initially for CCC enrollees to work on the Klamath Reclamation Project.During World War II, in 1942 the Tule Lake War Relocation Center was built next to the camp as one of ten concentration camps in the interior of the US for the incarceration of Japanese Americans who had been forcibly relocated from the West Coast, which was defined as an Exclusion Zone by the US military.
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Odd Fellows & The Tulelake, CA Segregation Center - Tracing Modern Nazi Codes & Ciphers
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Resistance at Tule Lake - Trailer - Third World Newsreel
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The dominant narrative of the World War II incarceration of Japanese-Americans has been that they behaved as a “model minority,” that they cooperated without protest and proved their patriotism by enlisting in the Army. Resistance at Tule Lake, a new feature-length documentary from Third World Newsreel and directed by Japanese American filmmaker Konrad Aderer, overturns that myth by telling the long-suppressed story of Tule Lake Segregation Center.
RESISTANCE AT TULE LAKE tells the long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government's program of mass incarceration during World War II. Branded as disloyals and re-imprisoned at Tule Lake Segregation Center, they continued to protest in the face of militarized violence, and thousands renounced their U.S. citizenship. Giving voice to experiences that have been marginalized for over 70 years, this documentary challenges the nationalist, one-sided ideal of wartime loyalty.
Konrad Aderer is available for speaking engagements, please contact twn@twn.org for more information.
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The film gives ample screen time to several of the most taboo topics within camp history: that of draft resistance, renunciation, sequestration within camp (at the infamous 'stockade' and 'bullpen'), the nationalist Hoshi Dan group, and physical torture.
- Discover Nikkei
“'Resistance at Tule Lake' is a potent piece of history at a time when the United States is once again feeling less than hospitable.
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Konrad Aderer's magnificent Resistance at Tule Lake tells a history that has long needed to be told, about the US government's foolish and panicked mistakes in dealing with those already incarcerated.
- IDA Documentary Magazine
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Bitter Memories: History of The Tule Lake Japanese Relocation Center #233 #146
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Tule Lake: 25 Cents Had Value
Living in Tule Lake Internment - Segregation Center meant you had a roof over your head and three meals a day in the mess halls. Everything else one had to but including toilet paper. Jimi Yamaichi shares the fact that Tule Lake had the lowest employment rate of all the camps at 37%. Some of the other camps had employment rates as high as 55%. If one was being paid 16 dollars a month it meant they were being paid 7 cents an hour. Toilet paper might cost nearly an hour's pay. 25 cents was worth something for many internees at the Tule Lake Internment - Segregation Center.
Filmed and edited by Anders Tomlinson. Produced by Anders Tomlinson and Jimi Yamaichi. ©2013 Anders Tomlinson and Jimi Yamaichi, all rights reserved.
Tule Lake: Kibei In Stockade
Jimi Yamaichi, standing inside the stockade, begins to answer the big question what did people do to be placed in the stockade. This is the first of a three part series. Jimi introduces us to the Kibei - A person born in the United States of Japanese immigrant parents and educated chiefly in Japan. Many in the stockade were Kibei. Many Kibei did not speak english which meant they could have jobs. Scenes include Pilgrimage people visiting the stockade and surrounding grounds behind a perimeter fence.
Filmed and edited by Anders Tomlinson. Produced by Anders Tomlinson and Jimi Yamaichi. ©2013 Anders Tomlinson and Jimi Yamaichi, all rights reserved.
Tulelake-Butte Valley Fair 2018
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Experience the food, fun, livestock, exhibits and much more from the 2018 Tulelake-Butte Valley Fair in Tulelake, Calif., Sept. 6-9, 2018.
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Tule Lake: Loyalty Oath
Jimi Yamaichi, standing inside the stockade, continues to answer the big question - what did people do to be placed in the stockade? He introduces us to the Hoshi-Dan, a pro-Japan faction in camp that resisted and harassed the government camp administration. Jimi also talks about the No - No folks who decided to return to Japan after the war. No - No refers to answering no to two question on a loyalty questionnaire created in February 1943 by the U.S War Department and the War Relocation Authority. Question #27 asked: Are you willing to serve in the armed forces of the United States on combat duty, wherever ordered? Question #28 asked: Will you swear unqualified allegiance to the United States of America and faithfully defend the United States from any and all attack by foreign or domestic forces, and forswear any form of allegiance to the Japanese Emperor or any other foreign government, power, or organization?
Tule Lake : Visiting Manzanar
Jimi Yamaichi and Hiroshi Shimizu visit Manzanar National Historic Site managed by the National Park Service. They have come to see how others have presented their World War II internment experiences. Manzanar is at the foot of the Sierra Nevada in California's Owens Valley between the towns of Lone Pine to the south and Independence to the north. It is approximately 230 miles (370 km) northeast of Los Angeles. Manzanar (which means apple orchard in Spanish) was identified by the United States National Park Service as the best-preserved of the former camp sites, and is now the Manzanar National Historic Site, which preserves and interprets the legacy of Japanese American incarceration in the United States.
Filmed and edited by Anders Tomlinson. Music by Denver Clay. Produced by Anders Tomlinson and Jimi Yamaichi. ©2013 Anders Tomlinson and Jimi Yamaichi, all rights reserved.
Tule Lake: Dust
The site of Tule Lake Internment - Segregation Center was a recently reclaimed Tule Lake by the Klamath Reclamation Project starting in the 1900's. Jimi Yamaichi accepted dust as a way as life. There was little that internees could do about the dust. It was everywhere, no crack was too small, no clothes were too clean. Today the winds still blow and dust can fly but not like it was in the Tule Lake Interment - Segregation Center back when.
Filmed and edited by Anders Tomlinson. Music by Denver Clay. Produced by Anders Tomlinson and Jimi Yamaichi. ©2013 Anders Tomlinson and Jimi Yamaichi, all rights reserved.
Tule Lake: Yamaichi Family of Eleven
Jimi Yamaichi was one of eleven family members that arrived at Tule Lake Segregation Center from Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Jimi did not want to come to Tule Lake but he did because his father felt the family must stay together. They lived in barracks 2704 - rooms C, D and E. 20' x 25' rooms were intended for seven, 20' x 20' rooms were for five and 20' x 16' rooms were for four. His sisters lived in one room, his parents in the middle room and the boys lived in the other room.
Filmed and edited by Anders Tomlinson. Produced by Anders Tomlinson and Jimi Yamaichi. ©2013 Anders Tomlinson and Jimi Yamaichi, all rights reserved.
Tule Lake: What Can Be
National Park Service Pacific West Regional Director Jonathan Jarvis lends his advise as what can happen at the now Tule Lake National Historic Landmark. During his 2006 Tule Lake Pilgrimage speech at the Ross Ragland Theater in Klamath Falls, Oregon he mentions options, partnerships and studies. He recommends folks to visit Manzanar and see what they did to interpret the World War II Manzanar Relocation Center.
Filmed and edited by Anders Tomlinson. Music by Denver Clay. Produced by Anders Tomlinson and Tule Lake Committee. ©2013 Anders Tomlinson and Tule Lake Committee, all rights reserved.
California - Lava Beds National Monument
From my visit on 6/2/09
Lava Beds National Monument, located in Siskiyou and Modoc Counties, California, is the site of the largest concentration of lava tube caves in North America. It was established as a United States National Monument on November 21, 1925, occupying over 46,000 acres. Lava Beds National Monument also includes Petroglyph Point, one of the largest panels of Native American rock art in the United States. The monument offers about ten trails through the high desert. Approximately 25 of the lava tube caves have been developed for public use with marked entrances and developed trails.
The monument lies on the northeast flank of the Medicine Lake Volcano, the largest volcano (total area covered) in the Cascade Range. The region in and around the monument is unique because it lies on the junction of the Sierra-Klamath, Cascade, and Great Basin physiographic provinces. In addition, the monument is geologically outstanding because of its great variety of textbook volcanic formations; i.e., lava tube caves, fumaroles, cinder cones, spatter cones, maars, and lava flows.
The war between the U.S. Army and the Modoc Indians took place here from 1872-1873.
During the Modoc War of 1872-1873, the Modoc Indians used these tortuous lava flows to their advantage. Under the leadership of Captain Jack, the Modocs took refuge in Captain Jack's Stronghold, a natural lava fortress. From this base a group of 53 fighting men and their families held off US Army forces numbering up to ten times their strength for five months. Gen E. R. S. Canby was killed here by Captain Jack at a peace meeting on April 11, 1873.
Following the end of the Civil War in 1865, settlement of the West increased rapidly, and the mass movement of settlers soon led to conflict with the Native Americans. The previous U.S. government policy of moving tribes west of the national boundary no longer applied, so beginning in the 1860s the government began moving Native Americans onto reservations. Nowhere was this influx of settlers greater than in California, where the wave of migrants brought by the Gold Rush heightened the call to end the migratory lifestyles of the Native Americans and restrict them to reservations. The impact of the huge rush of non-Indian people into California in just a few years was catastrophic to the Native American tribes. About sixty per cent of the Native American people died of disease, many others were killed, and the rest dispossessed.
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Part of a former World War II internment camp for Japanese Americans has been officially designated a National Historical Landmark.
The 42-acre landmark was part of the Tule Lake Relocation-Segregation Camp in a remote area of Northern California near the Lava Beds National Monument just south of the Oregon border.
More than 120,000 Japanese Americans were displaced from their homes across the West and put in 10 relocation camps during the war. Tule Lake was the largest center, with a peak population of 18,789 detainees.
A National Park Service advisory board unanimously recommended the designation for the area that was part of the 7,400-acre camp. It was designated as a relocation center in 1942 and converted to the nation's only segregation center in 1943.
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Bases 57 Part 7 Nazi POWs in America Tulelake Merrill
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Tule Lake: Fences and Towers
Jimi Yamaichi stands outside an existing perimeter fence on the east side of the camp. From here we can see the width of the camp all the way across the airport and to a stand of trees with Newell houses and businesses near Hwy 39. There were 28 towers guarding the main camp,11 surrounding the farm fields, and 100 miles of barb wire strung around the camp. Video and editing by Anders Tomlinson. Produced by Anders Tomlinson and Jimi Yamaichi. Filmed in 2004.
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Tule Lake: 16 or 19 Dollars
Jimi Yamaichi discusses the pay for internees at the Tule Lake Internment - Segregation Center. At first there were three pay scales. Professional received $19 a month. Average workers were paid $16 and laborers toiled for $ 12 a month. This was unpopular in camp and a subject of unrest - the change was made to all average workers and laborers were paid $16 a month. In the hospital internee surgeons were paid $19 a month working next to caucasian doctors earning $400 a month. this was the way it was. Anglos school teachers taught for $200 a month and their Japanese-American counterparts received $16. There were not many Japanese-Americans with teaching degrees because in the 1930'3 they were not hired so many with college degrees, teaching, engineering, law went back to work on the family farms and businesses. In camp these folks would teach their specialties without a teachers certificate because this was the way it was.
Filmed and edited by Anders Tomlinson. Produced by Anders Tomlinson and Jimi Yamaichi. ©2013 Anders Tomlinson and Jimi Yamaichi, all rights reserved.
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