2/27/2023 0 Comments Funter bay state marine![]() ![]() The living conditions were unsanitary, and there was inadequate food supply, no medical care, and no facilities for bathing, cooking or using the bathroom.įewer than 30 miles away in Excursion Inlet, 700 Nazi Afrika Korps officers were imprisoned at a prisoner-of-war camp. Entire families were sheltered in small cubicles that were separated sometimes only by blankets. The people were abandoned in old cannery bunk houses not meant to house so many people and not built for protection from winter’s harshness. They were given little notice, and the villagers could take only what they could carry. Some were sent to Killisnoo near Angoon, others were sent to Burnett Inlet, Ward Cove in Ketchikan, Wrangell, and the rest were sent to Funter Bay near Juneau. ![]() When the Japanese invaded the Aleutian Islands during WWII, the Unangax people were forcibly removed to Southeast Alaska. “After traveling to the cemetery and spending time with the survivors and descendants in my district, it’s impossible to overstate the cultural and emotional significance of this site,” added Rep. Sara Hannan (D-Juneau), the bill’s sponsor. “This bill represents a significant step in the effort to confront a dark chapter of Alaska’s history, when some of our own people were taken from their homes and placed in an abandoned cannery rather than treated with respect and welcomed into one of our communities as fellow Alaskans,” said Rep. House Bill 10 transfers a parcel of land from the Department of Natural Resources Land and Mining Water Division to the Division of Parks and Recreation, adding the land to the Funter Bay Marine Park to ensure Alaskans’ access to the site in perpetuity. Mike Dunleavy for consideration.JUNEAU – The House of Representatives today passed a bill to protect a cemetery in Southeast Alaska where Unangax people, taken from their homes on the Pribilof Islands during World War Two, were placed in an internment camp. There was no such opposition mounted from the Senate Republicans during today’s debate and the vote was ultimately unanimous with several Democrats and Republicans signing on as cross sponsors, a sign of support.īecause the Senate made no changes to the legislation, the bill does not need a concurrence vote and will head to Gov. The bill had faced some skepticism from House Republicans when it passed earlier in the session, where they argued that it was a sweetheart deal for the neighboring landowners because it may preclude a future mine project in the area (Several mining groups wrote in after the vote, noting there was no known mining opportunities and therefore didn’t oppose the legislation). It doesn’t include any funding for improvements or memorials to the cemetery as there’s a separate effort underway for those improvements. The legislation would transfer about 250 acres of state land from the state Division of Mining, Land and Water to the Division of Parks and Recreation. ![]() … The Alaska state Legislature can’t fix the history, we can’t change what was done, but we can protect the final resting place of more than 30 of our fellow Americans at Funter Bay.” They were treated vastly better than the Unangax̂ people-Americans-interred at Funter Bay More than 30 of those Americans at Funter Bay died before their internment ended. ![]() “Mostly Germans and some Italians at Excursion Inlet. federal government providing basic health care and adequate food to prisoners of war,” said Juneau Democratic Sen. “If you were to go about 23 miles west northwest of Funter Bay in those days, you would have found the U.S. They given few supplies for the hasty relocation and housed in abandoned buildings from an old mine and cannery. Many of the supporters note the inhumane treatment of the people was steeped in racism, noting that prisoners of war were treated much better at a neighboring camp. Some 30 to 40 people died at Funter Bay where they were given inadequate housing and supplies by the U.S. Sara Hannan, seeks to preserve and commemorate the Unangax̂ people who were forced to relocate from their homes in the Pribilof Islands to a camp 1,300 miles in Southeast Alaska. Legislation adding a cemetery that holds the graves the Unangax̂ people who died at a World War II-era forced relocation camp in Southeast Alaska to the Funter Bay Marine Park has cleared the Alaska Legislature. ![]()
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