5/30/2023 0 Comments Funter boyThis place is no place for a living creature…” ~Petition from group of Unangax women interned at Funtner Bay. The Aleut peoples’ internment at Funter Bay lasted two years under the supervision of the Fish and Wildlife Service, and many did not make it back. “We the people of this place wants a better place than this to live. There were 477 Aleuts and 19 Fish and Wildlife Service agents evacuated from the Pribilof Islands that day.Ī petition letter from Unangax women of the Pribolof Islands citing their living conditions at the Funter Bay Evacuation Camp in southeastern Alaska. National Archives Paul Island were given one hour to pack one bag each, and were ordered to board the overcrowded Deralof Army transport vessel, not yet knowing the arduous and deplorable conditions that would meet them at their internment site at Funter Bay in Southeast Alaska. authorities would hastily order villagers to grab one suitcase, board a ship, and watch as their homes and churches go up in flames. A tragically similar story would play out through nine Unangax villages in which U.S. While the Attu residents would be the only Unangax sent overseas as prisoners of the Japanese, other Unangax villagers would find themselves victims of circumstance, indecision, and racism–issued by those that had come to “protect” these citizens. Lots of children and babies die because they hungry and nothing but rice.” ~ Alex Prossof (From Attu Boy, by Nick Golodoff) Our chief, Mike Hodikoff and his son, George, eat from garbage can and get poison food. But there is no heat and very little food so she died. She got TB and Japs take her to kind of hospital.
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