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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><img width="531" height="247" style="width:5.5312in;height:2.5729in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D644C0.726E5010"><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:#202020;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Historical Museum at Fort Missoula Joins the Japanese American Memorial Pilgrimages (JAMP) & the National Park
Service’s 9-week Virtual Community Pilgrimage: Tadaima!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Release Date: 6/17/2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">We are very honored to announce The Historical Museum at Fort Missoula is part of the Japanese American Memorial Pilgrimages (JAMP) 9-week,
<b>Tadaima! A Community Virtual Pilgrimage event.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#202020">Each year, pilgrimages take place across the United States at the various War Relocation Authority Sites that incarcerated over 120,000 Japanese American’s during WWII. In the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic,
each of the annual pilgrimages to sites of wartime Japanese American incarceration have been canceled. These pilgrimages provide important educational and community-building opportunities for descendants of the camps, the Japanese American community, and the
wider public.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#202020">Spread across nine themed weeks, "Tadaima!" will feature pre-recorded and live-streamed content, as well as opportunities to engage with presenters and gather, virtually, as a community.
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#202020">Each week will focus on a theme, from immigration in the 1800s to redress in the 1980s. In addition to the ten War Relocation Authority sites, the virtual pilgrimage will also explore the incarceration
of the Japanese diaspora under different types of detention in the United States, Canada, and across the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#202020">Recognizing the ongoing significance of these pilgrimages, we are excited to invite you to: Tadaima! A Community Virtual Pilgrimage, which will take place from June 13th – August 16th, hosted on the Japanese American
Memorial Pilgrimages (JAMP) website <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Register today. </span></i><a href="http://www.jampilgrimages.com"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">www.jampilgrimages.com</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> Registration is free and open to the public. Tune
in on your own schedule to watch, listen, and learn. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#202020">Pilgrimage schedule <o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1C1E21;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Week 1 - June 14 - 20: Immigration & Settlement</span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1C1E21;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Week 2 - June 21 - 27: Pre-war & Forced Removal</span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1C1E21;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Week 3, June 28 - July 4: Sites of Incarceration</span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1C1E21;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Week 4 - July 5 - 11: A Question of Loyalty</span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="circle">
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1C1E21;background:white;mso-highlight:white">The Historical Museum will be sharing our award-winning documentary, An Alien Place, and virtual tours of the Alien Detention Center grounds, including WWII Barracks, Loyalty
Hearing Courtroom, Detention Camp exhibit, and much more. </span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1C1E21;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Week 5 - July 12 - 18: What is Citizenship</span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1C1E21;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Week 6 - July 19 - 25: Resettlement</span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1C1E21;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Week 7 - July 26 - Aug 1: Nikkei Incarceration Abroad</span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1C1E21;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Week 8 - Aug 2 - 8: End of War to Redress</span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1C1E21;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Week 9 - Aug 9 - 15: Reconciliation & Identity</span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#202020;margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1C1E21;background:white;mso-highlight:white">Aug 16: Closing Ceremony</span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#202020">This robust program is a collaborative effort between 40 Japanese American organizations nationwide, as well as international partners, and other institutions.
<i>The Historical Museum at Fort Missoula is honored to be part of the Tadaima Virtual pilgrimage and to bring awareness to this part of our shared history to the wider world.
</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#202020">This pilgrimage is unique in its endeavor to connect such a widespread coalition to the Japanese community, and will provide a space for scholars, artists, educators, and other representatives to collaborate in deepening
the understanding of the Japanese American incarceration experience. We invite the general public to participate in this community driven event and look forward to sharing this historic experience with all participants!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#202020">Fort Missoula as a DOJ Center during WWII<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#202020">During World War II, Fort Missoula was turned over to the Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service, for use as an Alien Detention Center. Between 1941 and 1944, the ADC held 1,200 non-military
Italian men, 1,000 Japanese resident aliens, 23 German resident aliens, and 123 Japanese Latin and South Americans.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#202020">Fort Missoula’s ADC was established to hold foreign nationals and resident aliens, to distinguish it from the 10 better known War Relocation Act camps that held 120,000 Japanese Americans.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#202020">Fort Missoula is currently the largest intact WWII internment site with most major buildings of the era still in use, including the Post Headquarters with its courtroom, the hospital, commissary, officer and staff
housing, barracks and other support structures. The Historical Museum has an exhibit on internment housed in an original barrack and is working on restoring the rest of the Post Headquarters building and two WWII era barracks.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#202020">To learn more about the weekly themes and to see a broad outline of the calendar, visit the Japanese American Memorial Pilgrimages website (</span></b><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.jampilgrimages.com"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">www.jampilgrimages.com</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">)</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#202020">
or their Facebook page (</span></b><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/JAMPilgrimages/"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.facebook.com/JAMPilgrimages/</span></b></a></span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">).
Registration is OPEN!</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">"Tadaima!" ~ "I'm home!" in Japanese Tadaima is a way of acknowledging that we are all home right now and the important reasons for why that is, while also celebrating the history, diversity, strength, and vibrancy
of the Nikkei community.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Contact Matt Lautzenheiser at </span>
</b><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:mlautzenheiser@missoulacounty.us"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">mlautzenheiser@missoulacounty.us</span></b></a></span><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#007C89">
</span></u></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">or 406-258-3471 for more information.
</span></b><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#202020"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></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">Cell: 406-240-3967<o:p></o:p></p>
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<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>”
<span style="color:#333333"> --- <span style="background:white">Mattie Stepanek</span></span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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