What Next - One Year 1942: When Internment Came to Alaska
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🗓️ 28 December 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
As we catch our breath over the holidays, enjoy this episode of Slate's One Year podcast. What Next returns next week.
Six months after Pearl Harbor, Japan launched another attack on the United States. This time, Axis forces actually invaded, turning the Aleutian Islands into a battleground. What the country did next, in the name of “protecting” Alaska’s Indigenous people, is a shameful chapter of the war. And it’s one the nation has never fully reckoned with.
This episode of One Year was produced by Evan Chung, Sophie Summergrad, Sam Kim, Sol Werthan, and Josh Levin.
Derek John is senior supervising producer of narrative podcasts and Merritt Jacob is senior technical director.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what next, Lissner? |
| 0:03.3 | I've got something special for you today, while we all catch our breath over the holidays. |
| 0:07.5 | It is an episode of One Year, one of my favorite slate podcasts, which looks at the people |
| 0:12.0 | and struggles that changed America. |
| 0:14.3 | One year at a time. |
| 0:16.0 | Their latest season goes all the way back to 1942, when World War II was raging. |
| 0:22.0 | It turns out six months after Pearl Harbor, Japan launched another attack on the US. |
| 0:27.0 | This time, Axis forces actually invaded, turning some Alaskan islands into a battleground. |
| 0:33.0 | The US military claimed it was protecting indigenous Alaskans by forcibly moving them. |
| 0:38.5 | The real story is darker than that. |
| 0:41.3 | We're going to be back with new episodes of What Next Next Week. |
| 0:44.3 | In the meantime, I hope you will subscribe to One Year wherever you listen. |
| 0:47.7 | Now here's host Josh Levine with the episode When the Internment Came to Alaska. |
| 0:56.2 | Her truce of Arnie was raised on the Aleutian Islands off the Alaskan mainland. |
| 1:01.2 | She's still there today in the tiny city of Analaska. |
| 1:05.0 | She lives in the house her parents bought in 1934. |
| 1:07.9 | That's a long time ago. |
| 1:13.0 | Back then we were very busy, subsisting, gathering berries, digging clams, fishing. |
| 1:18.2 | I had a very happy childhood. |
| 1:21.1 | Gert is 92 now. When she was growing up back in the 30s, there were just 300 people in |
| 1:26.9 | Analaska. |
| 1:28.4 | About half were white, including Gert's father. |
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