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National Park Service HAWAII (continued) Recipient: Project Title: Grant Award: Site(s): Description: University of Hawaii, Center for Oral History Unspoken Memories: Oral Histories of Hawaii Internees at jerome, Arkansas $29,080 jerome Relocation Center, Chicot and Drew Counties, AR The University of Hawaii's Center for Oral History will conduct interviews with fifteen individuals who left their homes in Hawaii to be with their detained fathers in the jerome Relocation Center in Arkansas. Each interview will cover topics such as pre-internment life, the forced removal of fathers from their families, the stresses and effects of separation on japanese American families, and the decisions made by families to move to Jerome. The oral histories will be recorded in digital audio format, transcribed, edited, and transferred onto CDs. To make sure that the public has access to these important memories, the Center will deposit the oral history CDs in the University of Hawaii, Hawaii State,Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii, NPS, and University of Arkansas libraries. Additional information about the project's efforts Evacuee flower garden at the Tule Lake Segregation Center in to share wartime experiences of California. Photo courtesy: The Bancroft Library, University of families at Jerome will also be accessible California, Berkeley. via the Center's website (www. oralhistory.hawaii.edu). Recipient: Project Title: Grant Award: Site (s): Description: University of Hawaii, West O'ahu Multidisciplinary Research and Education at Honouliuli Internment Camp, Phase 2 $98,544 Honouliuli Internment Camp, Honolulu County, HI Following up on its 2009 Japanese American Confinement Sites grant award, the University of HawaiiWest O'ahu will continue its multidisciplinary research and education project on the internment experience in Hawaii, including archaeological field schools at Honouliuli during the summers of 2011 and 2012. The University will expand its current research staff to create a multidisciplinary group with backgrounds in anthropology, Asian-American studies, early childhood education, economics, English, history, psychology, and sociology. University faculty will complete research with local collections and interviewees, travel to other collections in Hawaii and the U.S. mainland, and record oral histories of former internees, their families, and individuals who interacted with the Honouliuli Internment Camp. The University will share its research findings through public outreach and a project website. University faculty also will develop and deliver university courses that feature comparative analyses of internment in Hawaii and the U.S. mainland, while utilizing local fieldtrips, writings from former internees, films, and guest speakers to enhance class sessions. 10