by Admin | Oct 13, 2020 | Project Activity, Touched by Dispossession
Claim series 7 Kaitlin Findlay George Tamaki Continuing in our series of short essays relating to the four claims of Landscapes of Injustice. This essay explores claim # 3: Reasoning Wrong. In the 1940s, officials found ways to justify their actions. While racism was... 
by Admin | Oct 13, 2020 | Project Activity, Touched by Dispossession
Claim #4 Dispossession is Permanent. The internment era was far too long-seven years, most of them after WWII had ended. But dispossession lasts forever. The lands, possessions, and opportunities lost can never be fully restored. Here is a submission by Project... 
by Admin | Oct 13, 2020 | Project Activity, Touched by Dispossession
This article in our series on the four claims highlights Claim #2, Dispossession Required Sustained Work. It comes to us from Laura Saimoto from the Vancouver Japanese Language School, one of our partner institutions. Congratulations to the hard work to have their... 
by Admin | Oct 13, 2020 | Project Activity, Touched by Dispossession
Claim series 4 Kaitlin Findlay Eiko Henmi Continuing in our series of short essays relating to the four claims of Landscapes of Injustice, this one comes from Research Coordinator, Kaitlin Findlay Claim #2: Dispossession is hard work. In Canada, the dispossession... 
by Admin | Oct 13, 2020 | Project Activity, Touched by Dispossession
Claim series 3 Lorene Oikawa The Story of Oikawa Island Continuing with stories in our series about the four claims of the project, Lorene Oikawa relates her father’s story and the community that they created on Oikawa and Sato Islands. Claim #1 is the killing... 
by Admin | Oct 13, 2020 | Project Activity, Touched by Dispossession
Claim series 2 Josh van Es Gordon Robertson Continuing in our series of short essays relating to the four claims, this one comes from Josh van Es, an undergrad at UVic and a Landscapes of Injustice research assistant in the Narrative Website cluster. Claim #3 states...