U.S. and Japanese forces fought over the Aleutian Islands during World War II. Relics of this conflict can still be found on seafloor today, and the Indigenous people who used to call the islands home ...
Attu Island is the most westerly of Alaska ... historical trauma endured by the Attuan people during and after World War II” and that it was aware of Atux Forever’s call for reparations.
Helena Pagano’s great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia than North America. He died starving as a prisoner of war after Japanese ...
Helena Pagano's great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering ... war after Japanese troops invaded during World War II, wresting the few dozen residents ...
He died starving as a prisoner of war after Japanese troops invaded during ... island. She went alongside Japanese officials who, as part of a redoubled effort to recover the remains of World War ...