Aleutian Sparrow
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0689861893
ISBN 13
9780689861895
Category
Historical Fiction
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Publication Year
2003
Publisher
Pages
156
Description
June, 1942, Japanese forces attacked the Aleutian Islands. Within days of the attack, the U.S. military removed the Native people of these islands to relocation centers in Alaska's southwest, supposedly for their own protection. Conditions in these camps were deplorable. The Aleuts were held for approximately three years, and many of them died. In a series of short, unrhymed verses, Hesse tells this moving story through the eyes and voice of a girl of Aleut and Caucasian heritage.
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