| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) |
| Playing Time |
Duration: 14 minutes |
| Note |
Title from title frames. |
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In Process Record. |
| Event |
Originally produced by Stourwater Pictures in 2007. |
| Summary |
When the Filipino pioneers of the 1920's and 30's settled on Bainbridge Island, Washington they were hired by Japanese-American landowners to tend their renowned strawberry farms. The bombing of Pearl Harbor turned this relationship upside down when the Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from the Island and incarcerated during WWII. The Japanese American community left Bainbridge Island on March 30th, 1942, just a few months before the strawberry harvest. The Japanese American farmers needed stewards and their Filipino farmhands brought in the harvest, paid the taxes and saved the farms. The Filipino bachelors also introduced a new immigrant group, First Nation women from Canada, into the social mix. After the war, some of the bachelors traveled back to the Philippines and returned with brides. Through it all the "Bayanihan spirit" where the community comes together and works for the common good, fed this community and everyone it touched. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English |
| Indexed Term |
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies |
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North American Studies |
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Race and Class Studies |
| Added Author |
Ostrander, Lucy, filmmaker
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Sellers, Don, filmmaker
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Kanopy (Firm)
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| Music No. |
1126166 Kanopy |
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