The Exchange: WWII Relocation of Unangan Villagers
Wednesday, April 03 2013
After the bombing of Unalaska in 1942, the military relocated the entire civilian population of the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands. In many cases, people were given just a few hours to pack their belongings before being loaded on transport ships and sent off to camps in Southeast Alaska.
Anthropologist and archaeologist Charles M. Mobley recently published a book in conjunction with the National Park Service that explores the camps and their histories.
In the segment of The Exchange, he talks with KUCB's Stephanie Joyce about the book, and what he discovered.
lewis moses on Thursday, April 04 2013:
the entire civilian of the aleutians was not relocated....unimak and sanak islands were not reclocsated