Funter Bay
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Funter Bay is a two-mile-long (3 km) bay on the western side of Admiralty Island near its northern tip, in the Alexander Archipelago of the U.S. state of Alaska. It lies within the Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, in the Unorganized Borough of Alaska.
Funter Bay was the site of a World War II internment camp for Aleuts{{cite web |url=http://www.aaanativearts.com/article1269.html |title=Did you know Aleuts were sent to internment camps during WWII? Documentary film tells their story |author=Debra McKinney |accessdate=2006-06-15 |archivedate=2012-02-04 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204093054/http://www.aaanativearts.com/article1269.html |url-status=deviated }} relocated 1500 miles from their homes. It was "the site of an abandoned cannery in which the St. Paul evacuees were housed. The St. George camp was across the bay at an old mine site."[http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/HistoryCulture/Aleut/Jones/ch6.html Century of Servitude] - Chapter 6: Refugees The injustices they suffered were the subject of the US Congress' Aleut Restitution Act of 1988.
Demographics
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Funter Bay appeared on the 1890 U.S. Census{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CRcwAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Annovokhamiut%22&pg=RA2-PA164 |title = Report on Population and Resources of Alaska at the Eleventh Census, 1890|year = 1893|last1 = Census Office|first1 = United States}} as an unincorporated area with 25 residents (described as a mining camp, though a cannery was also located here). Of its residents, 20 were Native Americans (9 males and 11 females) and 5 were White (all male). 15 residents were considered "native", while 10 were considered "foreign." There were 8 houses and 11 families. It has not appeared on the census since.
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External links
- [http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/HistoryCulture/Aleut/Jones/jonesindex.html A Century of Servitude]
- [http://www.aleutstory.tv/ 'Aleut Story' film site ]
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Category:Bays of Hoonah–Angoon Census Area, Alaska
Category:World War II internment camps in the United States
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