{"id":26641,"date":"2014-08-12T15:40:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T01:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=26641"},"modified":"2021-10-28T12:07:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T22:07:14","slug":"internment-camps-hidden-history-uncovered-by-west-oahu-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/08\/12\/internment-camps-hidden-history-uncovered-by-west-oahu-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Internment camp\u2019s hidden history uncovered in West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O\u02bbahu<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uGC2SPHQeaQ\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Honouliuli Internment and <abbr title=\"Prisoner of War\">POW<\/abbr> Camp in Kunia on <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> was the largest internment camp in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>. Opened in 1943 during the height of World War <abbr title=\"two\">II<\/abbr>, Honouliuli held approximately 300 internees from <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> of Japanese, Okinawan, German and Italian ancestry and about 4,000 prisoners of war from Japan, Italy Okinawa, the Philippines and Korea. <\/p>\n<p>Every other summer, University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>&#8211;West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> students have an opportunity to dig into Honouliuli&#8217;s history, literally, thanks to the school&#8217;s three credit, three week long, archaeological field techniques course. <\/p>\n<p>The students are taught through hands-on, on-site investigative fieldwork. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;How to use tools that are appropriate for World War <abbr title=\"two\">II<\/abbr> internment site, how the tools vary depending on what kind of feature you are looking at or what kind of site you are looking at,&rdquo; said <strong>Mary Farrell<\/strong>, a summer lecturer at <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> and nationally renown archaeologist who specializes in internment camps. <\/p>\n<p>Getting to those sites is not always easy. The students often have to hike through the rugged terrain of the hidden gulch where the 120-acre camp is located. Safety is a top priority and the hiking and fieldwork can be physically challenging. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26656\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26656\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/honouliuli.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"215\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/honouliuli.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/honouliuli-260x139.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> students conduct investigative fieldwork at Honouliuli Internment and POW Camp in Kunia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;Today we were finishing up work that we did yesterday, clearing up the dirt sediment, all the guinea grass from this site here,&rdquo; said <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> student <strong>Earl Ramsey<\/strong> &ldquo;We had a few yards left over.&rdquo; The foundation they were working on had been almost completely covered with dirt and vegetation the day before.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We were clearing out a slab from the <abbr>POW<\/abbr> site,&rdquo; said fellow student <strong>Tori McCann<\/strong>. &ldquo;This is a washroom.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>The work came to stop after something was spotted in the dirt. The students quickly gathered for a closer look at what appeared to be an old toothpaste tube. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Wow!&rdquo; exclaimed McCann after the find. &ldquo;Other people used this. It&#8217;s like, it&#8217;s kind of like you are going through a museum but you are living it.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Archeology provides the human dimension,&rdquo; said Farrell. &ldquo;It&#8217;s something you can touch, you can feel, you experience it.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>After the excavation was complete, the students mapped out the foundation using the techniques taught to them in the class. The students also learn metal detecting, photography, on-site artifact analysis and <abbr>GPS<\/abbr> and Total Station mapping, all at Honouliuli. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You are actually working in a place where people actually interacted,&rdquo; said Ramsey. &ldquo;This is where they lived. This is where they worked. You kind of get to experience what their life was like.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think they are learning that this was a pretty difficult environment to be stuck in for one thing,&rdquo; said Farrell. &ldquo;It&#8217;s hot, it&#8217;s humid, not much breeze down here. For another thing, they are learning a lot about the World War <abbr>II<\/abbr> history. This is a history that&#8217;s not very well known.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Now <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> students are helping to uncover and preserve that untold history. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> students conduct investigative archaeological fieldwork at Honouliuli Internment and POW Camp in Kunia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12],"tags":[395,59],"class_list":["post-26641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-video","tag-archaeology","tag-uh-west-oahu","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26641"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150709,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26641\/revisions\/150709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}