Asian Pacific Heritage Month, National Park Service

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Sail a Chinese Shrimp Junk on the San Francisco Bay

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Celebrate Asian Pacific Heritage Month!

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Asian Reflections on the American Landscape: Identifying and Interpreting Asian Heritage

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Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites

historic photo of Japanese Americans picking cotton

People

	Past... George Masa - photographer and integral in the establishment of Great Smoky Mountains National Park
	Present... Jun Kinoshita - fire archeologist
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	Stories A History of Japanese Americans in California A History of Chinese Americans in California 1906 Earthquake: Chinese Displacement
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	For Teachers Manzanar Education Resource Box Locke and Walnut Grove: Havens for Early Asian Immigrants in California The War Relocations Centers of World War II: When Fear was Stronger than Justice
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	Collections Chinese and Japanese Photographs at Longfellow National Historic Site Photographs of Micronesia
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	Places Uncertain Path to the Promised Land, Angel Island Immigration Center Garnier Building (Chinese American Museum)
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	Preservation Preservation through Visual Anthropology and Training: Case Study from American Somoa The Navy and the Protection of Pacific Cultural Resources Japanese American Confinement Sites Preservation Grants Restoration of the Angel Island Immigration Station
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Guam Congress Building. Under foreign military rule since 1668, the people of Guam are used to a government far from home - until the U.S. erected this Legislature building in 1946. Here, in 1950, the Chamorro people voted to end U.S. Naval rule.