Solidarity as Public Memory
How are Native and Japanese American communities marking a shameful part of American history? Our guest, Satsuki Ina, shows us how to build solidarity from a national tragedy.
ABOUT THE GUEST
Satsuki Ina is a licensed psychotherapist who has spent her professional career seeking to understand the long-term impact of collective and historic trauma. She is co-organizer of Tsuru for Solidarity, a grassroots coalition formed to protest current policies that echo and reverberate the racism and hate so resonant of the historical Japanese American incarceration. She has produced two documentary films, Children of the Camps and From A Silk Cocoon, and is the author of a memoir, The Poet and the Silk Girl. Learn more about Satsuki on her website.
EPISODE NOTES
About Snow Country Prison
Japanese American Internment Memorial (United Tribes Technical College)
An Act of Mending: An Internment Memorial in North Dakota Honors Resilience (Arts Midwest)
About Denise Lajimodiere, the first Native American poet laureate of North Dakota:
About The Ireichō: Book of Names (The Irei Project and USC’s Duncan Ryuken Williams)
Connect with Tsuru for Solidarity, Densho, and TaikoArts Midwest
More on the Memorial dedication ceremony:
On Instagram: photos from Satsuki Ina and here and here from TaikoArts Midwest
"Snow Country Prison” Memorial Dedicated at UTTC to Honor Japanese American Incarceration at Fort Lincoln (Native News Online)
‘Act of dissidence’: Memorial dedicated to honor Japanese Americans incarcerated in ND (North Dakota Monitor)