Tribal President Amos Philemonof holds stones from an Internment Camp to be placed at the memorial at St. Paul Island.

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Lisa Hupp/USFWS
Date Shot/Created
11/30/2021
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Public Domain
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Tribal President Amos Philemonof holds stones carried from the site of the Funter Bay Internment Camp to be placed at a memorial on St. Paul Island, part of Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. At the outset of the Aleutian Islands campaign in World War II, 800 native Unangan were removed and interned in squalid camps from 1942 through 1945.
Ecosystem
Coastal
Marine
Recreational Activity
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American Indians
Coasts
Cultural resources
History
Military
Rocks
Villages