[OR_Archaeology] Priscilla Wegars talk and book signing event

[John Pouley]

There will be a talk on, and a book signing for, "Imprisoned in 
Paradise: Japanese Internee  Road Workers at the World War II Kooskia 
Internment Camp,"  by Priscilla Wegars (AACC, 2010), Paperback, $19.95.

Portland, OR, Thursday, May 12, 2011, 5:00 p.m., for the Oregon Nikkei 
Legacy Center; program will take place at the Northwest Evaluation 
Association, 121 NW Everett. Hosted by the Oregon Nikkei Endowment and 
sponsored by Oregon Humanities.

Idaho's Kooskia Internment Camp was located on Highway 12 on the Lochsa 
River in north central Idaho. Between mid-1943 and mid-1945 the camp 
held an all-male contingent totaling some 265 so-called "enemy aliens" 
of Japanese ancestry. Most came from 21 states and 2 territories, but 
others were from Mexico; some were even kidnapped from Panama and Peru. 
Eight of the internees were from Oregon, and this illustrated PowerPoint 
presentation will include images of them, and of materials recovered 
during the 2010 archaeological excavations at the Kooskia Internment 
Camp site.

All author's royalties benefit the University of Idaho's Asian American 
Comparative Collection, <http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/LS/AACC/>.

For more information on the Kooskia Internment Camp, please visit 
http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/LS/AACC/KOOSKIA.HTM 

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Announcing IMPRISONED IN PARADISE: JAPANESE INTERNEE ROAD WORKERS AT THE 
WORLD WAR II KOOSKIA INTERNMENT CAMP (AACC, 2010). Distributed by Caxton 
Press, Caldwell, Idaho, 1-800-657-6465.


Priscilla Wegars, Ph.D., Research Associate and Volunteer Curator, Asian 
American Comparative Collection (AACC), Laboratory of Anthropology, 
University of Idaho, P. O. Box 441111, Moscow, ID 83844-1111, 
208-885-7075, e-mail, pwegars at uidaho.edu 


Oregon SHPO
Assistant State Archaeologist
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Salem, OR 97301
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john.pouley at state.or.us
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