A review by axmed
Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present by Adrienne Keene

emotional hopeful informative

5.0

Many Americans know about the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, but few know about the Aleut evacuation and incarceration—of which Sergie was a survivor. In 1943, the U.S. government forced more than eight hundred Aleut people to leave their villages over fears of Japanese invasion. The evacuees lived in internment camps throughout southeast Alaska, thousands of miles from home, for the duration of the war. These camps were often located in abandoned canneries, where conditions were grim, and it was impossible to practice traditional Aleut lifeways. Many died in the camps, and after the war, many of the villages were never reestablished. Sergie and his family eventually were able to return to Nikolski, where Sergie lived until his passing.