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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Historical Museum at Fort Missoula & Northern Rockies Heritage Center Co-Hosts
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Footlight MT Light",serif">Bend with the Wind: A Book Talk & Discussion
<i>with Author Naomi Shibata</i><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Tuesday, June 18<sup>th</sup> at 7:00pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">At Heritage Hall on the Fort Missoula Campus<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Naomi Shibata presents on her family’s history, including her grandfather’s internment at Fort Missoula.
</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">Naomi Shibata is a third generation American of Japanese Ancestry (Nikkei), born and raised in California. Her grandfather was among the Japanese immigrants interned at Fort
Missoula during World War II. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">As docent and writing workshop leader with the National Japanese American Historical Society in San Francisco, Naomi delivers guest lectures on the Nikkei experience for a variety
of institutions. Naomi is a University of California graduate and a high technology industry veteran.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">Bend with the Wind – The Life, Family, and Writings of Grace Eto Shibata
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">is the story of two families’ pursuit of the American Dream. This 20th century narrative highlights Grace's family's struggle to achieve business ownership and tracks
the growth of modest, but stable, Japanese communities. It describes how an entire racial ethnic community, most of whose members were American citizens, were disenfranchised during World War II.
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<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">It discusses Grace’s father’s internment by the Department of Justice, the family’s incarceration, exile, service in the United States Armed Forces, postwar resettlement, and speaks
of Grace’s life as wife, mother, businesswoman, author, and activist. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">This event is free to the public and will include light appetizers and refreshments.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">Naomi Shibata will available for Q & A and book signing. C</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">opies of the book will be available for sale. For more information contact
Kristjana Eyjólfsson at </span><a href="mailto:keyjolfsson@missoulacounty.us"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">keyjolfsson@missoulacounty.us</span></a><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"> or (406) 258-3473.
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<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">More information on Facebook (Historical Museum at Fort Missoula)
</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/185340895705049/">https://www.facebook.com/events/185340895705049/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background:white">Sláinte (To Health!)</span>,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jessie<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jessie Rogers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Development & Communications Director <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Historical Museum at Fort Missoula</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">406-258-3479<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><i><span style="color:#333333;background:white">“While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.</span></i><i>”
</i><i><span style="color:#333333"> --- <span style="background:white">Mattie Stepanek</span></span></i><i><br>
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