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Family farm (ddr-densho-153-12)
img Family farm (ddr-densho-153-12)
Matsushita family with their farmhands. Front (L to R): Yasutaro, Kara, unknown. Back: Kyoko Matsushita, unknown, Amy, Marjorie, unknown.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-153-12/
Mother and daughters in garden (ddr-densho-153-6)
img Mother and daughters in garden (ddr-densho-153-6)
Kyoko Amitani Matsushita and daughters Marjorie and Kara.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-153-6/
Wapato Methodist Church group (ddr-densho-153-19)
img Wapato Methodist Church group (ddr-densho-153-19)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-153-19/
Funeral inside the Yakima Buddhist Church (ddr-densho-293-24)
img Funeral inside the Yakima Buddhist Church (ddr-densho-293-24)
Reverend Tesho Matsumoto presiding over Tora Migita's funeral. Reverend Matsumoto, leader of the Wapato Buddhist Church, spoke in defense of his community's loyalty to the United States and removed the swastika image that had formerly adorned the church facade. Prior to its appropriation by Adolph Hitler (1889-1945), the swastika was used by a wide variety of …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-293-24/
Funeral inside the Yakima Buddhist Church (ddr-densho-293-22)
img Funeral inside the Yakima Buddhist Church (ddr-densho-293-22)
Reverend Tesho Matsumoto presiding over the funeral. Reverend Matsumoto, leader of the Wapato Buddhist Church, spoke in defense of his community's loyalty to the United States and removed the swastika image that had formerly adorned the church facade. Prior to its appropriation by Adolph Hitler (1889-1945), the swastika was used by a wide variety of groups …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-293-22/
Funeral inside the Yakima Buddhist Church (ddr-densho-293-25)
img Funeral inside the Yakima Buddhist Church (ddr-densho-293-25)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-293-25/
Funeral inside the Yakima Buddhist Church (ddr-densho-293-23)
img Funeral inside the Yakima Buddhist Church (ddr-densho-293-23)
Reverend Tesho Matsumoto presiding over the funeral. Reverend Matsumoto, leader of the Wapato Buddhist Church, spoke in defense of his community's loyalty to the United States and removed the swastika image that had formerly adorned the church facade. Prior to its appropriation by Adolph Hitler (1889-1945), the swastika was used by a wide variety of groups …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-293-23/
Funeral attendees in front of the Yakima Buddhist Church (ddr-densho-293-26)
img Funeral attendees in front of the Yakima Buddhist Church (ddr-densho-293-26)
Reverend Tesho Matsumoto presiding over the funeral. Reverend Matsumoto, leader of the Wapato Buddhist Church, spoke in defense of his community's loyalty to the United States and removed the swastika image that had formerly adorned the church facade. Prior to its appropriation by Adolph Hitler (1889-1945), the swastika was used by a wide variety of groups …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-293-26/
Funeral inside the Yakima Buddhist Church (ddr-densho-293-21)
img Funeral inside the Yakima Buddhist Church (ddr-densho-293-21)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-293-21/
School children outside of the Yakima Buddhist School (ddr-densho-293-27)
img School children outside of the Yakima Buddhist School (ddr-densho-293-27)
Possibly Hisako Migita in portrait window.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-293-27/

Narrator Kara Kondo

Nisei female. Born May 24, 1916, in the Yakima valley, Washington, and spent childhood in Wapato, Washington. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed to the North Portland Assembly Center, Oregon, and then to the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. Was on the staff of the camp newspaper, the Heart Mountain Sentinel. Left camp for Chicago, …
https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/132/
Lon Inaba Interview Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-537-11)
vh Lon Inaba Interview Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-537-11)
Father's questioning of the exclusion orders
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-537-11/
Lon Inaba Interview Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-537-6)
vh Lon Inaba Interview Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-537-6)
The impact of the alien land laws on grandparents' farm
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-537-6/
Lon Inaba Interview Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-537-3)
vh Lon Inaba Interview Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-537-3)
Paternal family's immigration to the United States
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-537-3/
Lon Inaba Interview Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-537-8)
vh Lon Inaba Interview Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-537-8)
Grandparents' relationships with the Native Americans, leasing land
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-537-8/
Lon Inaba Interview Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-537-5)
vh Lon Inaba Interview Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-537-5)
Grandparents' early farming on the Yakama Reservation
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-537-5/
Lon Inaba Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-537-10)
vh Lon Inaba Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-537-10)
Still growing crops up until the mass removal
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-537-10/
Lon Inaba Interview Segment 15 (ddr-densho-1000-537-15)
vh Lon Inaba Interview Segment 15 (ddr-densho-1000-537-15)
Family members' activities in the immediate postwar
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-537-15/
Lon Inaba Interview Segment 21 (ddr-densho-1000-537-21)
vh Lon Inaba Interview Segment 21 (ddr-densho-1000-537-21)
Returning with brother to the family farm to help father
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-537-21/
Lon Inaba Interview Segment 19 (ddr-densho-1000-537-19)
vh Lon Inaba Interview Segment 19 (ddr-densho-1000-537-19)
Building up the farm
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-537-19/
Lon Inaba Interview Segment 23 (ddr-densho-1000-537-23)
vh Lon Inaba Interview Segment 23 (ddr-densho-1000-537-23)
The success of the farm over the years
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-537-23/
Lon Inaba Interview Segment 18 (ddr-densho-1000-537-18)
vh Lon Inaba Interview Segment 18 (ddr-densho-1000-537-18)
Growing up among non-Japanese American friends
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-537-18/
Lon Inaba Interview Segment 26 (ddr-densho-1000-537-26)
vh Lon Inaba Interview Segment 26 (ddr-densho-1000-537-26)
Reflections
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-537-26/
Lon Inaba Interview Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-537-9)
vh Lon Inaba Interview Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-537-9)
Hearing about a visit from the Ku Klux Klan
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-537-9/
Lon Inaba Interview Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-537-4)
vh Lon Inaba Interview Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-537-4)
Great grandfather's candy store and hotel
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-537-4/
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