"To protect indigenous Alaskans from Japanese bombs, the U.S. gave them… internment and death
The internment of WWII-era Aleuts decimated 10 percent of the population."
From the petition:
This is no place for a living creature. We drink impure water and then get sick and the children’s [sic] get skin disease even the grownups are sick from cold. We ate from the mess house and it is near the toilet only a few yards away. We eat the filth that is flying around. We got no place to take a bath and no place to wash our clothes or dry them when it rains.
On Oct. 10, 1942 a petition was written by Aleut women in the Pribilof Islands Program citing their living conditions at the Funter Bay Evacuation Camp (a cannery) in southeastern Alaska during World War II.
Residents of many Alaskan islands had been relocated during early Japanese advances in the Pacific. The title of an article by Shoshi Parks sums up what happened, To protect Indigenous Alaskans from Japanese bombs, the U.S. gave them. . . internment and death: The internment of WWII-era Aleuts decimated 10 percent of the population.