"Send 20,000 Japanese to Indian Reservation" (AP, Washington, March 27, 1942)

SUMMARY"Send 20,000 Japanese to Indian Reservation" (AP, Washington, March 27, 1942) (Nov 4, 2026). Clipping via TikTok @big.yuchi, shared by Tito.
RECORD, the clipping's words: "The War Relocation Authority announces 20,000 Japanese would be moved to the Colorado river Indian reservation at Parker, Ariz.... A colonization plan has been worked out by the authority, the Indian service, Indian owners of the land and the war department... four or five temporary, self-sustaining colonies, with the purpose of furnishing homes and useful employment to the evacuated Japanese and of preparing the land for use after the war."
RECORD, what happened: the Poston War Relocation Center (1942–1945) was built on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, and at its peak held about 17,800 Japanese Americans, most of them US citizens. The Office of Indian Affairs (under Commissioner John Collier) ran it at first. The tribal council objected to the camp being placed on its land. Internees cleared land and dug irrigation canals. A second camp, Gila River, was built on the Gila River Indian Community's land, also over tribal objections. After the war the reservation was opened to "colonists" from the Hopi and Navajo nations (from 1945), on the land the internees had prepared

PATTERNin 1942 the government used one imprisoned people to prepare another nation's land for "colonization," and it called it that in the press

LENS (WW9)the colonization plan, said out loud, in 1942

OPENthe original newspaper and page for the clipping; the CRIT council's own records of its objection; who was meant to farm the land "after the war." Needs deep research.