Fb2 The Hood River Issei: An Oral History of Japanese Settlers in Oregon's Hood River Valley (Asian American Experience) ePub

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The Hood River Issei book. The Hood River Issei: An Oral History of Japanese Settlers in Oregon's Hood River Valley. Gathers oral histories from Japanese immigrants, most of them women, that discuss leaving Japan, life as farmers and orchard workers, and the World War II relocation.

Tamura is a third-generation, or sansei, Hood River Japanese whose eagerness to discover her roots led her to undertake this oral history of the original farmers and merchants. She does so faithfully and movingly, particularly in her portrait of xenophobia as World War II broke out and many of the issei were interned.

Hood River from HST 370 at California Polytechnic State University, Pomona Tamura, Americanization, Acculturation, and Ethnic Identity.

The Hood River Issei An Oral History of Japanese Settlers in Oregons Hood River from HST 370 at California Polytechnic State University, Pomona. 9. Compared to scholarship on the Issei, there are many more histories of second- generation Japanese Americans.

An Oral History of Japanese Settlers in Oregon's Hood River Valley

The Hood River Issei : An Oral History of Japanese Settlers in Oregon's Hood River Valley. An excellent, insightful collection of American stories gleaned from oral histories of the small-town community of Hood River, Oregon. Tamura herself has family from this area. The book peers into the lives of the extended "issei" community, who are now all but gone in the year 2006, but live on through stories such as those found in this book.

Those living in Hood River and southwest Oregon were moved to Tule Lake, just south of Klamath Falls in. .The Hood River Issei: An Oral History of Japansese Settlers in Oregon's Hood River Valley. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

Those living in Hood River and southwest Oregon were moved to Tule Lake, just south of Klamath Falls in northern California. Most of the people at the Portland Assembly Center were sent to Minidoka, Idaho, one of ten camps located in remote areas of the West. Ironically, by the time the camps were constructed, the United States had turned the tide of the war in the Pacific at the battle of Midway, eliminating the threat of a Japanese invasion of the West Coast.

Linda Tamura, who grew up in Hood River and whose father was a veteran of the war, conducted extensive oral . She is the author of The Hood River Issei: An Oral History of Japanese Settlers in Oregon's Hood River Valley.

Linda Tamura, who grew up in Hood River and whose father was a veteran of the war, conducted extensive oral histories with the veterans, their families, and members of the community. This book also includes the little known story of local Nisei veterans who spent 40 years appealing their convictions for insubordination.

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The Shinano River incised valley lies east of the bounding fault zone and runs seaward, approximately parallel to it. The incised valley deepens to more than 160 m below mean sea level near the coast, deeper than sea-level fall during the Last Glacial Maximum, because of subsidence governed by the fault zone. In this study, we examined the sediment stacking patterns of the incised-valley fill at 1000-year scale by analyzing sedimentary facies and radiocarbon ages from three sediment cores from the Echigo Plain. December 1994 · American Anthropologist.

Hood River, Oregon, United States Linda Tamura graduated from Oregon College of Education, receiving her Bachelor of Science in 1971.

Hood River, Oregon, United States. Mrs. Tamura was an elementary-school teacher at McMinnville Schools, McMinnville, OR, between 1971 and 1975. She worked as a professor of education at Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR, from 1977 to 1994. Linda Tamura graduated from Oregon College of Education, receiving her Bachelor of Science in 1971. In 1976 she obtained her Master of Education and in 1981 Doctor of Education degrees, both from Oregon State University.