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New Mexico Humanities Council

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Application Number: 2511Application Deadline: 1 Oct 2015, 5:01pm MTAward:

Total Amount Requested: 9922.00Total Amount of Matching Contribution: 13180.00Total Challenge Grant Amount: 0.00

PDF Generated: 1 Oct 2015, 4:39pm MT

Project Title:

Citizen Min in New Mexico

Project Description:

In 2016, NM Japanese American Citizen's League will host a humanities project to commemorate an event of nationalsignificance--nomination of a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom to Minoru (Min) Yasui, a hero of Americancivil rights. In 1942, the 25-year-old lawyer broke the curfew law in Portland, OR to test the constitutionality of thegovernment's discriminatory laws against Japanese Americans; he lost his case before the Supreme Court andserved 9-months in solitary confinement. Today he is called "Mr. Civil Rights" and "the Martin Luther King, Jr. ofJapanese Americans."

This project consists of a two-hour presentation by Holly Yasui and presenters, who have direct or family connectionsto Japanese American incarceration.

The presentation includes: 1) clips from Holly Yasui?s documentary film, "Never Give Up," narrated by George Takei, on her father's legacy (10min)2) live readings from her biographical play, "Citizen Min" (30 min)3) panel presentations on Asian stereotypes and fear of the "other"; New Mexico's unique place in JapaneseAmerican history--its WW II prison camps and the stories of Gallup and Clovis; NMJACL's current work with theNational Parks project, "Confinement in the Land of Enchantment. (30 min)4) "Talk-back" with the audience, led by Holly Yasui. (30 min)

Min made many trips to New Mexico on civil rights causes. When his daughter was told the endearing story of Min'sencounter with Pete Dominici, a stalwart opponent of Japanese American redress, she chose New Mexico as her firststop on a regional tour commemorating her father's legacy (the attached document relates that story).

Sponsoring Organization:

New Mexico Japanese American Citizens League (NMJACL)Description: The Japanese American Citizens League, founded in 1929, is the largest and oldest Asian American civil rights organization in the country.It consists of more than 24,000 members and 113 chapters. It was created to secure and maintain the civil rights of Japanese Americans and all otherswho are victimized by injustice and bigotry. It helped secure an apology and redress from the U.S. government for the incarceration of 120,000 peopleof Japanese ancestry, two-thirds of whom were American citizens.

The history of the New Mexico Chapter goes back to 1947, when fewer than 15 Japanese American families in Albuquerque and Gallup began whatwas first called the Nisei [second generation] Club.

Mission: The mission of the NM Japanese American Citizens League is to promote, protect and fight for the civil and human rights of ALL PEOPLE inand outside of New Mexico.

5010 Lomas Boulevard NE , ABQ NM 87110email: [email protected]; tel: 505-883-5320; website: http://www.nmjacl.org

Project Director:

Director Victor Masaru Yamada; board member, NM Japanese American Citizens League13115 Enclave Lane NE , ABQ NM 87111email: [email protected]; tel: 505-856-8523

Fiscal Agent:

Calvin Kobayashi; Treasurer, New Mexico Japanese American Citizens League5010 Lomas Blvd NE , Albuquerque NM 87110email: [email protected]; tel:

Contact info "approved" on: 1 Oct 2015, 6:57am MT

Project Formats:

[ X] Conference[ X] Exhibit[ X] Lecture(s)[ X] Radio Program[ X] Reading/Discussion[ X] Workshop[ X] Film or Video Discussion[ X] Symposium[ X] Panel Discussion[ X] Other (explain)[ X] Does program respond to a NMHC request for proposals (RFP)?

Humanities Scholars Who Will Participate:

Chisao Hata; Community organizer, Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center

Oregon Public Schools, Arts & Culture Program

University of Oregon, EugenePortland State University, Portland

Heath Hyun; founding member, Theatre Diaspora, Build a Bridge, Anon It Moves

Portland Public Schools, Arts & Culture Program

B.A. Theater, Humboldt State University

Dr, Nikki Nojima Louis; member, New Mexico Japanese American Citizens League

Program specialist & lecturer, Asian American Studies (program on hold),University of New Mexico

Ph.D. English, Florida State UniversityMFA Creative Writing, University of Washington

Mary Oishi; development director,, KUNM

UNMKUNM

AA, Harrisburg Area Community CollegeBS, Behavioral Sciences, University of MarylandMA Humanities (classwork completed), California State University

Herbert Tsuchiya; Japanese American Citizens League, Seattle Chapter

Pharmacy, University of Washington

Holly Yasui; Co-founder and Project Coordinator, Min Yasui Tribute Committee

Minoru Yasui Tribute Committee

1979. B.A. cum laude, University of Colorado1979-81. Film Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles1983. M.A., Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison1985. M.A., Communications, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Evaluators:

Nancy R. Bartlit; Owner, Bartlit Enterprises

former President, Los Alamos Historical Society; member, Historical Society of NM, speakers' list; Chautauquaspeaker under NM Humanities Council

B.A., Smith College, Northampton, MA, 1958, History Major; M.A. University of NM, 1998, InternationalCommunications (Japanese focus), Completed two & one-half years course at UNM for Study of Japanese Industryand Technology, 1993-95 or 96.

Ms. Rose T Diaz

Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Library and Archives

1980/B.S. History (American), Arizona State University

2006/Ph.D. History (American, 1865-Present), with an emphasis on the Contemporary American West, Women'sHistory, and Public History

Agreement:

By signing and submitting this application, the authorizing official of the applicant organization, the project director, and thefiscal agent are 1) providing the required certifications regarding disbarment and suspension, and compliance with thenondiscrimination statutes as set forth in the INSTRUCTIONS OF CERTIFICATION, indicating that the applicant is eligible toreceive federal funds, and 2) agreeing that any funds awarded by NMHC will be used for the purposes set forth herein, unlesschanges or revisions are subsequently approved in accordance with applicable policies of the New Mexico Humanities Council.

Signatures

Project Director:

Director Victor Masaru Yamada Date: 1 Oct 2015, 3:11pm MT

Fiscal Agent:

Calvin Kobayashi Date: 1 Oct 2015, 3:45pm MT

Project Description

1. What is planned?

This project will travel to different communities in the state to engage audiences in a new narrative: historical, social,and personal stories of Japanese Americans in New Mexico, some as residents or citizens, others as visitors,outsiders or prisoners of "enemy alien" camps.

One of the frequent post-WW II visitors to NM was Min Yasui--hence, the project title: "Citizen Min in New Mexico." He had settled in Denver after losing his appeal to the Supreme Court and serving his jail term in Oregon, andcontinued to believe in the Constitution and fight for the human civil rights of ALL people, co-founding the DenverUrban League, Latin American Research & Social Agency, and Denver Native Americans United. One of the NMstories concerns Senator Pete Dominici's response to a speech Min gave in Albuquerque, which caused the Senatorto reverse his opposition to Japanese American redress. After Min's speech, Senator Dominici laid down his ownkeynote speech and spoke emotionally about his Italian immigrant roots. We are fortunate that three NM JACLmembers who attended that meeting shared that story with us, separately and spontaneously, for an oral historyproject last year (funded by NMHC) and that we, in turn, will be able to share it with our audiences. Relating this storyto Min's daughter sealed her decision to start her "Citizen Min" tour in New Mexico. Our program is the only one thatcarries the name of a state in its title and theme.

"Citizen Min in New Mexico" will be presented in a 2-hour program:Part I : film clips and live reading1) Holly Yasui's short documentary film, "Never Give UP," on her father's civil rights legacy, narrated by George Takei(20 min)2) Live reading of excerpts from "Citizen Min," depicting his early life in rural Oregon; the passionate idealism of theNisei men and women (second generation/American-born) who founded the Japanese American Citizens League,and Min's break with the organization over disagreement on the the way the Japanese American community shouldrespond to Executive Order 9066 (President Roosevelt's order for round-up and incarceration); his dramatic (andhumorous) attempts in Portland, OR to be arrested for violating the wartime curfew law; Min's experience in theMultnomah County (Oregon) jail, which broadened his humanity and solidified his belief in constitutional law. (45 min)

10-minute intermission (gives audience members an opportunity to write questions and comments that will beaddressed in the Q&A section of the panel presentation)

Part II: 3) Panel presentation: Project planners Yamada and Louis join the play readers in sharing their experiences with WWII American prison camps, the effect of Min's controversial stand in 1942 on their own lives, and little known storiesfrom New Mexico's Japanese American community . (40 min.)4) "Talk-back" between Holly Yasui and audience members on related themes and stories that affect their lives. Audience "talk-backs" give project planners an opportunity for further outreach into communities interested in"inhabiting history" through story-telling, oral history, readers' theater, and writing. (30-45 min)

Each event will include: Hand-out programs identifying the project's goals (connecting the past to the present andcommunity outreach), personnel, and program content, as well as contact information to presenters, NMJACL, andCLOE representatives.

While this project will be presented in humanities-related programs in Colorado, Utah, Oregon, Washington, andIdaho, because of her father's frequent visits to New Mexico to work on civil liberties issues in the '80s--and the factthat some who knew and worked with him are still present--Holly Yasui wishes New Mexico to be her first stopimmediately after the premiere of her film at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.

Presentations in Albuquerque will be videoed by Mike Swick and the video donated to the Special Collections Library,UNM Library, and NM History Museum.

2. When will it take place?

Presentation 1: SAT. FEBRUARY 13, 2016, 10 a.m. - Special Collections Library, ABQDay of Infamy/Day of Remembrance: Min Yasui's journey from "Jap" jailbird to American hero

Presentation 2: TUES. APRIL 12, 2016: Los Alamos History Museum

Day of Infamy/Day of Remembrance

These events preview Holly Yasui's arrival in May for state-wide events of "Citizen Min in New Mexico," and bringcontext to the events surrounding Min's act of civil disobedience. The presentation by project planners Yamada andLouis informs audiences of a date commemorated in Japanese American communities today as "Day ofRemembrance," February 19, 1942, the date President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, an actthat led to the civil rights violations that Min Yasui protested.

MAY 3-10, 2016:This week is scheduled around Holly Yasui's arrival in the United States from Mexico: Holly arrives from Los Angeles premiere of her film. Presentation 3: Tues. May 3, 7:30 pm - Silver CityPresentation 4: Wed. May 4, 1 pm - Lordsburg Presentation 5: Thur. May 5, 6 pm - Las CrucesPresentation 6: Sat. May 7, 1 pm - ABQPresentation 7: Sun. May 8, 1 pm - Santa Fe

3. Where will it take place?

Special Collections Library, ABQ - The auditorium draws a steady audience from the general public to attend thesecond Saturday speakers' series. Last year, the Asian American Association of New Mexico's "Asian AmericanLegacy Stories" (2014 NMHC mini-grant) was well attended and garnered interest in our future projects. The Library'sprogram director, Eileen O'Connell, has been very receptive to our requests for programming. Parking is available inan empty lot across the street

Los Alamos Historical Museum - Victor and Nikki meet with the program director, Judith Stauber, on October 12 todiscuss our presentation at the speakers' series on April 12, 2016.

Hibben Auditorium, Maxwell Museum, UNM - Professor Dave Phillips has booked the program for a Saturday soattendees can park free on campus. The 1 p.m. presentation time is convenient for elders, and for audiencemembers who drive in from out of town.

NM History Museum, Santa Fe, was chosen for a Sunday afternoon presentation for ease of parking.

These locales are grouped for a single road trip to stretch our budget dollar (gas, per diem: food/lodging):Silver City, NM: Western NM State UniversityLas Cruces, NM: NM State University Lordsburg, NM: Lordsburg Museum

4. Who are the managers, planners, and humanities scholars? Please provide names, titles, and briefidentifications.

VICTOR YAMADA, project director, represents the sponsoring organization, NMJACL, in attending to theadministrative responsibilities of the grant. In his role as humanities scholar, he will introduce the CLOE (Confinementin the Land of Enchantment), a National Parks Service project that explores the history of the Department of JusticeWW II "enemy alien" camps of New Mexico.

NIKKI NOJIMA LOUIS, program designer/humanities scholar, coordinates all aspects of the public presentations anddirects the readings. She assists the project director in securing bookings, preparing publicity/PR and coordinatingtravel and lodging. Both she and Victor are interested in community outreach and in collaboration with other groupsinvolved in oral history, readers' theater, or outreach projects involving the humanities.

HOLLY YASUI, film director and author, grew up in Colorado, and now resides in a rural community near San MiguelAllende, Mexico. She and Nikki Louis have worked together for more than a year to create a humanities project thatilluminates the civil rights legacy of Min Yasui in a way that connects to current themes and concerns of audiencestoday.

MARY OISHI is development director of KUNM and host of its weekly Blues Show. A well-known spoken wordperformer and poet, she founded the ongoing poetry series, "Some of My Best Friends Are Poets" and "Q Words." She is a member of the oral history/readers company of "Breaking the Silence: Japanese Voices in America," whichwas invited to perform in Hiroshima in 2013.

HERB TSUCHIYA, os a retired pharmacist turned actor, and arrives from Seattle to join the project as a volunteerreader/panelist. In the 1970s he testified at one of the many hearings throughout the country that were ordered byPresident Carter on his childhood experiences in Camp Minidoka, Idaho; these hearings resulted in an apology fromthe U.S. government.His other volunteer projects in New Mexico have been: NM History Museum's symposium on the Santa Fe InternmentCamp (2012); "From Hiroshima to Hope" UNM Forum, and host for 16 peace activists from Hiroshima; oral historyinterviews, Las Cruces and Lordsburg (2014); narrator for the presentation, "Asian American Legacy Stories" (2014). He is a long-time member of the "Breaking the Silence" company.

HEATH HYUN is a member of Theatre Diaspora, an Asian American theater company in Portland, Oregon, whichcreates documentary plays on human rights and multicultural stories. He is a core member of Holly Yasui's travelingunit and will read the role of Min Yasui in readings throughout the West and Pacific Northwest.

CHISAO HATA, is a third generation Japanese American whose parents were incarcerated in WW II prison camps. She is a member of the Min Yasui Tribute Committee, based in Portland, Oregon. Chisao has worked with Nikki andHolly on the development of the reading script and hosted a highly successful presentation in Portland in July, whichwas attended by Yasui family members, Min's lead attorney, and a diverse group of community leaders.

5. How does this project involve the humanities disciplines?

The humanities disciplines represented in this project include American Studies, immigration history, American law,New Mexico history, sociology, psychology, dramatic literature. The social history of an American group, fromimmigration early in the 20th century to their present status as a "model minority" is illuminated through the story of asingle representative family, the parents and father of Holly Yasui. What makes this family "representative" of theJapanese American experience is an immigration history that began in the early 20th century with an ocean voyageacross the Pacific and arrival on the west coast of the United States, followed by years of legal and social exclusionand discrimination, culminating in the birth of American children and fulfillment of the "American dream" -- so far, a"typical" (or hoped for) immigration success story. What ties this family narrative together is WW II, racial profiling,and the imprisonment of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast -- 2/3rds American citizens -- intoprison camps in desolate desert and swamp lands of America. What makes the Yasui family story ATYPICAL andUNREPRESENTATIVE, is the action of one of their sons, who had become a lawyer and who committed acontroversial act of civil disobedience in 1942 because he believed that the Constitution would protect his rights. MinYasui was right, but it took 44 years for the courts to reverse his case and 73 years for him to be nominated for aPresidential Medal of Freedom (posthumously, he died in 1986).

History, sociology, psychology and law are presented through the framework of dramatic literature provided by thereading of excerpts from Holly Yasui's play, "Citizen Min." What makes these dramatic readings humanities ratherthan art is a "show-and-tell" approach: humanities scholar Louis has scripted the readings to include a runningcommentary that introduces and contexualizes the selected scenes. Another show-and-tell presentation is on HollyYasui's documentary film, "Never Give Up." The readers will become panel participants with short presentations onpersonal and family experiences with the camps and a discussion of "outsiderness," followed by a Q&A with theaudience. Holly's "Talk Back" is designed to stimulate stories on similar themes from audience members and toprovide opportunities for future outreach.

Another humanities aspect of the program is our "inhabiting history" method of presenting complex and far-reachingsubjects that remain abstract until they are humanized through a story-telling approach. Holly's play touches oninjustice, divided loyalties, fear of the other, and moral dilemmas through the character of Min in ways that audiencescan identify with and that reach into their own lives. Engaging people in story-sharing is the goal of Holly's "Talk Back"and Nikki's approach to "inhabiting history" through story-telling techniques such as readers theater.

While this project covers a time when fear-mongering and war hysteria denied a minority group their human rights, itsalso shares examples of courage, resilience, and vision on many side of the human spectrum. Min Yasui neverstopped believing he was an American. Like Rosa Parks when she was removed from the bus in Montgomery,Alabama in 1955, he broke the law in 1942 as an act of faith--in the U.S. Constitution and in the rationality anddecency of his fellow Americans. Gordon Hirabayashi, another young Japanese American who also went to jail to testthe Constitution, has said: "This is not a Japanese case; this is an American case." The role of the humanities is tohumanize.

6. What are the evaluation criteria for this project?

Our evaluation criteria for this project is tied to the accomplishment of its goals:-- TO PROVIDE A CONTEXT FOR UNDERSTANDING of the social and historic atmosphere that created warhysteria and violation of human rights leading to the unprecedented incarceration of American citizens by their owngovernment-- TO BRING TO DIVERSE AUDIENCES in New Mexico stories of Japanese Americans during WW II that breakstereotypes, create commonalities, and expand horizons;-- TO CREATE A DIALOGUE with audiences that open opportunities for outreach and community interaction

Indicators of reaching project goals:1) Audience size is indication of the effectiveness of our PR/publicity2) Audience response can be gauged at the actual presentations, especially through the "Talk Back" section of theprogram3) A frank and thorough appraisal after each event by all the project participants will improve the quality ofpresentations 4) Advice from and consultation with the project's evaluator, Rose Diaz, will be sought5) Follow-up with audience members, venue hosts, and community contacts will be pursued via e-mail, social media,and other methods of exchange

7. What is the role of the humanities scholar(s) in this project?

1. Victor Yamada, presenter, discusses the work of CLOE (Confinement in the Land of Enchantment), a National ParkServices project which explores the history of New Mexico's Department of Justice prison camps.

2. Nikki Nojima Louis prepares the reading script, selects the readers, and directs the reading. She has includedpanelists who are knowledgeable about the social, psychological, and historical aspects of Japanese Americanimprisonment on a first-hand basis.

3. Holly Yasui is the chronicler of a family history and a historic event: the first case to test the constitutionality of alaw that targeted a minority group. She will introduce and discuss her short film on her father's legacy, participate inthe panel discussion, and conduct the "Talk Back" with audience members.

4. Mary Oishi takes on multiple roles in the reading of "Citizen Min" and is a presenter on the discussion panel. Shealso serves as PR/publicity coordinator. Her standing as a community activist, spoken word poet, radio show host anddevelopment director of the public radio station, KUNM, draws a large audience to our project.

5. Chisao Hata multi-tasks as reader, panelist, and tour manager on the project's many out-of-town challenges. Shewill assist the reading director in coordinating the travel schedules of each participant; printing and distributing thereading scripts; and overseeing the technical requirements of each venue.

6. Heath Hyun's panel presentation reflects on the ignorance of his generation of Asian American activists about WWII and his introduction to the stories of Min and his times through portraying in readings of the play.

7. Herb Tsuchiya volunteers as a reader and presenter on this project, incurring the expense of traveling from Seattleto assist the outreach of this project to as many venues as possible. His lodging and meal expenses in Albuquerque, as well as his appearances in all the engagements are in-kind donations.

8. Who are the proposed audience/participants? Estimate of audience size?

Our proposed audience will be: -- inter-generational -- history buffs -- researchers, scholars -- Japanese Americans and their families -- people interested in Japan or Asia -- people knowledgeable about the Japanese American experience -- students getting credit for attending our presentations -- people unfamiliar with the topic but attracted by publicity, PR, word of mouth, etc. -- the curiousOur previously NMHC-funded projects "Asian American Legacy Stories," sponsored by the pan-Asian organization,Asian American Association of New Mexico, and "Imprisonment of People of Japanese Ancestry During WW II,"sponsored by NMJACL, have helped develop an audience both in ABQ and out of town for our projects.

Audience size in different venues will vary from 100+ in some auditoriums (NM History Museum, Maxwell Museum,Health & Social Auditorium, NMSU), and up to 50 in smaller libraries (Special Collections) and community centers.

9. What kind of publicity is planned to reach the audience?

In-person announcements and distributio of flyers:1) This project will be announced, in November 2015, at all the venues that the NM Humanities-funded presentation "imprisonment of Japanese" will be presented: ABQ, Silver City, Las Cruces, Lordsburg, and Gallup; at Gail Okawa'slecture on the Santa Fe Interment Camp at the NM History Museum on November 13; and at the speakers seriespresentation at the Los Alamos Historical Museum on April 12, 2016.2) Cultural fairs, meetings of historical and cultural organizations):Project planners Yamada and Louis are members of Asian American Association of New Mexico and will be attendantat an information booth on this project.

Website announcements: NM Humanities Council; NM Japanese American Citizen's League; NM Holocaust and Intolerance Museum; MaxwellMuseum, UNM; ABQ Museum of Art & History; Brannigan Cultural Center, Las Cruces; NM State University; WesternNM University; Los Alamos Historical Museum, NM History Museum; Gallup Cultural Center; Alamogordo Museum ofHistory

PSAs to radio/tv stations: WUNM, Mary OishiPRs to print media:ABQ Journal, Weekly Alibi, ABQ Free Press, Gallup Herald, Gallup Independant. Green Fire Times, Las CrucesNews, Farmington Daily TimesPacific Citizen, national JACL newspaper.

10. Of what value is this project to the audience?

This project focuses on real life experiences of ordinary people who faced extraordinary challenges that impacted notonly their own lives but those of others. Recent events indicate that what happened to a group now considered to bea "model minority" can easily happen to another "other." While philosopher George Santayana reminds us that"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," it's important to bring those words to life throughreal stories of real people that general audiences can relate to--not merely the Mt. Rushmore-type heroes that passedthrough our history books, but ordinary people doing the hard, right thing during challenging times.

Attaching the label "hero" to Min Yasui distances us from him because such label are abstractions. Holly Yasui'sfirst-hand accounts of her father complicates and humanizes him, making this "hero" understandable and identifiable.Scenes from her play show self-doubt, lost friendships, family suffering--sides of an American hero we are privilegedto witness.

It's important to note that the people who knew and remember Min in New Mexico will not be with us for long; nor willthe 3 presenters in this project who experienced the camps as children: the "last generation." The value of our projectis its ability to bring first-hand stories of humor and resilience--even of surprising connection, as the Pete Dominicistory demonstrates --to a wide range of audiences. The role of story-telling enables us to bring complex andcontroversial issues to light, and to stimulate an engaged audience toward further thinking, reading, study, anddiscussion.

11. Now that you have answered all the above questions, please condense it all into a three sentence descriptionor blurb that NMHC can use for publicity and to put on the NMHC web site. Be sure to include fundingsupport credits for NMHC and NEH in the three sentence description.

In 1942, a young Japanese American lawyer broke the law to test the U.S. Constitution and lost his case. His journeyfrom despised "Jap" jailbird to civil rights hero and Presidential Medal of Freedom nominee in 2015 is related by hisdaughter in "Citizen Min in New Mexico." A live and multimedia feast--readings, documentary film, and livelyconversation with the audience -- awaits communities throughout New Mexico, thanks to generous funding from theNew Mexico Humanities Council and National Endowment for the Humanities.

New Mexico Humanities CouncilBudget Summary & Supporting Explanations

I. Services & SuppliesDirect Grant Challenge Grant Sponsor's

Matching Cash &In-Kind Donations

Third Party Cash Project Income Total

Telephone0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

Postage0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

Rentals0.00 0.00 100.00 0.00 0.00 100.00

Other100.00 0.00 200.00 0.00 0.00 300.00

Subtotal 100.00 0.00 300.00 0.00 0.00 400.00Basis for Services

& Supplies Other:Printing, office supplies (printer cassettes, paper, script covers) - $100.

II. PublicityDirect Grant Challenge Grant Sponsor's



Ads0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

Flyers/Posters1000.00 0.00 500.00 0.00 0.00 1500.00

Brochure0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

Other0.00 0.00 500.00 0.00 0.00 500.00

Subtotal 1000.00 0.00 1000.00 0.00 0.00 2000.00Basis forPublicity Flyers and posters: $1,000

flyers for distribution to libraries, community centers, universities and colleges posters for posting at events

Other: in-kind: graphic design $500.

III. TravelDirect Grant Challenge Grant Sponsor's



Mileage(limited to$.375 per mile of

NMHC funds)103.80 0.00 103.80 0.00 0.00 207.60

Airfare950.00 0.00 500.00 0.00 0.00 1450.00

Per Diem(perperson daily limit:

food - $24;lodging - $70)

2068.00 0.00 2068.00 0.00 0.00 4136.00

Other0.00 0.00 708.00 0.00 0.00 708.00

Subtotal 3121.80 0.00 3379.80 0.00 0.00 6501.60Basis for Travel

MILEAGE: $103.80in-town travel, ABQ: 50 mi. x .375 x 2 vehicles = 37.50travel to out of town events: 833.1 mi. x .375 = 331.16 x 2 vehicles = 66.301) ABQ-Santa Fe-Los Alamos-ABQ2) ABQ-Silver City-Lordsburg-Las Cruces-ABQ3) ABQ-Gallup-ABQ iN-KIND mileage donation: $103.80ABQ transportation 50 mi. x .375 x 2 vehicles = 37.50out of town events: 8331.1 mi x .375 x 2 vehicles: 66.30

AIRFARE: $950.00one-way airfare: Principle presenter (Holly Yasui) - Los Angeles-ABQ: 350RT airfare: Principle reader (Heath Hyun) Portland-ABQ 300.RT airfare: Tour manager/asst. director/presenter/reader (Chisao Hata) Ptl-ABQ 300.

IN-KIND air travel: $500.Volunteer presenter/reader (H. Tsuchiya) airfare RT Sea-ABQ 500.

PER DIEM: $2,068. 3 overnight stays x 7 presenters: 1,974.1 overnight stay, Silver City (Evaluator) 94.1) ABQ venue -0- 2) Santa Fe-Los Alamos (one overnight) 94 x 7 = 658.3) ABQ-Silver City-Lordsburg-Las Cruces-ABQ (2 overnights) 94 x 7 x 2 nights = 1,316.

IN-KIND PER DIEM: $2,068.IN-KIND PER DIEM (Evaluator, N. Bartlit - Silver City): $94.IN-KIND PER DIEM (3 Humanities Scholars): 1,974.ABQ: 7-days in-kind P.D. @ $94/day x 3 persons (Herb Tsuchiya, Hath Hyun, Chisao Hata)

OTHER: VEHICLES IN-KIND $708.2 SUV vehicles to transport 8 people (based on Enterprise quote: 359 x 2 SUV vehicle rental for 4 days) = 708.

IV. HonorariaDirect Grant Challenge Grant Sponsor's



Scholars(Pleaseexplain if over

$350 per scholar,per event)

4200.00 0.00 4200.00 0.00 0.00 8400.00

Other Participants

700.00 0.00 3000.00 0.00 0.00 3700.00Project Director

500.00 0.00 1000.00 0.00 0.00 1500.00Evaluator

300.00 0.00 300.00 0.00 0.00 600.00Other

0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00Subtotal 5700.00 0.00 8500.00 0.00 0.00 14200.00

Basis forHonoraria Proj. director (V. Yamada): $500. (in-kind: $1,000.)

Humanities scholars: $4,200.7 scholars x $100/ea x 6 presentations = $4,200. IN-KIND - Humanities Scholars: $4,200.$100/venue x 6 venues = $600 x 7 scholars =IN-KIND

OTHER PARTICIPANTS: $700Program designer/presentation coordinator/reading director (N. Louis): 500. Videographer/editor: 2 venues (Michael Swick): 200. IN-KIND OTHER PARTICIPANTS: $3,000.Program design/presentation director: based on 200 hrs. x $10/hr = 2,000 IN-KINDVideographer/editor: 1,000

EVALUATOR: Rose Diaz (3 venues @ $100/ea) $300.EVALUATOR IN-KIND: Nancy Bartlit (3 venues) $300.

GRAND TOTAL I, II, III, IVDirect Grant Challenge Grant Sponsor's



9921.80 0.00 13179.80 0.00 0.00 23102.00

Scholar's Form and Statement of Intent(This serves as a brief professional resume and letter of commitment to project.)

Director Victor Masaru YamadaTitle: board member, NM Japanese AmericanCitizens League

Address: 13115 Enclave Lane NE ABQ NM 87111USA

Email: [email protected] Phone: Phone: 505-856-8523Cel Phone: 310-415-0349Fax:

Institutional Affiliation (if any): New Mexico Japanese American Citizens LeagueAsian American Association of New MexicoNational Parks Services CLOE Project (Confinement in the Land of Enchantment)Education and degrees: B.S. Civil Engineering, University of WashingtonM.S. Environmental Engineering, University of WashingtonMBA Business Management, Pepperdine University

Please specify your contribution to this project:

Role: Project DirectorCoordinates administration of the grant; works in collaboration with the Humanities Scholar/program designer to seekbookings for presentations, arrange travel and accommodations for our team of reader/presenters, and oversees thesmooth running of the project's multimedia and multifaceted presentations.

Experience relevant to this project:

Humanities Scholar, Asian American Legacy Stores, 2014 (funded by NMHC)Board member, Special Projects, NMJACLProject Coordinator, CLOE (Confinement in the Land of Opportunity), National Parks Service project on New Mexico'sDepartment of Justice Prison CampsProject Director: CLOE Historical Markers, National JACL Legacy FundProject Director: Translation Project, Letters of Santa Fe Camp Inmates of WW II, National JACL Legacy Fund

Publications, Products, Awards & Recognition relevant to this project:

Grant awardee (2014), National Japanese American Citizens League Legacy Fund, CLOE Historical MarkersGrant awardee (2015), National Japanese American Citizens League Legacy Fund, CLOE: Phase II Documentationof Confinement Sites

Co-director, Aki Matsuri Art Exhibit Benefit for Phase II: CLOE

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Chisao HataTitle: Community organizer, Oregon NikkeiLegacy Center

Address: 4535 NE 36th Street Portland OR USA

Email: [email protected] Phone: Phone: 503-975-2748Cel Phone: Fax:

Institutional Affiliation (if any): Oregon Public Schools, Arts & Culture ProgramEducation and degrees: University of Oregon, EugenePortland State University, Portland


Role: Humanities ScholarIn addition to serving as a reader and panelist, I will assist the project director and program designer with the manydetails of programming and touring to different venues in whatever capacity is required: script revisions, assistantdirecting, tour managing, technical support, community outreach, PR/publicity.

In July of this year, I worked with Holly Yasui and Nikki Louis on developing the script of "Citizen Min" for a readingand community panel. I invited leaders from diverse communities in Portland because I wanted to acquaint them witha history most of them knew nothing about, and about the struggles of a single figure in their community that made adifference. This has led to Nikki and Holly devoting a section of their program to interaction with the audience andopportunities for further outreach.


I am an educator on the Japanese American experience through the performing arts. I am presently communityorganizer for the Min Yasui Tribute Committee, in Oregon. Before WW II, my parents are from the rural community ofHood River, Oregon, where Min's family also lived. I was born in Des Moines, Iowa after my parents' release fromprison camp, but I have been active in Portland's multicultural community for over 30 years.

My experience with Nikki's approach to "inhabiting history" through readers' theater goes back more than 20 years. Ihave participated in readings on her oral history plays on the international women's movement ("Most DangerousWomen") and the Japanese American experience ("Breaking the Silence"). In August 2013, I was part of thecompany of "Breaking the Silence" that was invited for bi-lingual readings in Hiroshima, Japan. In October of thatyear, I helped coordinate the visit of a Hiroshima peace to New Mexico. I look forward to returning to New Mexico toassist with this important project.


Lila Jewel Women in the Arts, PortlandLife Achievement Award, Interstate Firehouse Cultural CenterRegional Arts & Culture Council grantTraditional Arts Program scholarship, Kyoto, Japan


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Heath HyunTitle: founding member, Theatre Diaspora, Build aBridge, Anon It Moves

Address: 3410 SE 33rd Ave. Portland OR USA

Email: [email protected] Phone: Phone: 503-432-8155Cel Phone: Fax:

Institutional Affiliation (if any): Portland Public Schools, Arts & Culture ProgramEducation and degrees: B.A. Theater, Humboldt State University


Role: Humanities ScholarReader in the role of Min Yasui and presenter on the discussion panel. In addition to New Mexico, which will be HollyYasui's preferred first stop on her tour commemorating the centenary of father's birth, I will be accompanying her topresentations in Seattle; Portland; Boise, ID; Salt Lake City; and Denver.


In 2014, read the part of Min Yasui in the Redress section of Nikki Louis's oral history play, "Breaking the Silence" atTheater Diaspora. In 2015, recreated the role in a reading of "Citizen Min" in Portland, OR.

I believe we hae a civic responsibility to pass on a sense of curiosity and wonder.


Semi-finalist, Young Playwrights' Contest


Form "signed" on: 1 Oct 2015, 11:43am MT


Dr, Nikki Nojima LouisTitle: member, New Mexico Japanese AmericanCitizens League

Address: 3711 Aztec Road NE ABQ NM 87110USA

Email: [email protected] Phone: Phone: Cel Phone: 206-877-3931Fax:

Institutional Affiliation (if any): Program specialist & lecturer, Asian American Studies (program on hold),University of New MexicoEducation and degrees: Ph.D. English, Florida State UniversityMFA Creative Writing, University of Washington


Role: Humanities ScholarOversees preparation and content of the program, acting as researcher, editor and program designer to provide ahumanities context to the project. Provides historical and humanistic context to the presentation of a documentary filmon the legacy of Min Yasui, a hero of Japanese American civil rights. Dr. Louis will select and direct live readings ofexcerpts from Holly Yasui's play on her father, "Citizen Min," and provide a New Mexico context for Min's civil rightswork here in the 1980s. She will assist the Project Director in seeking bookings for presentations, particularly inunderserved communities, and supervise technical and reading rehearsals, and the myriad details of booking andpresenting the project in a variety of locations and venues.


April 2012: Panelist and presenter: symposium on Santa Fe internment camp , NM History Museum. Created readers'theater format for presentation of letters between inmates and their families. 2012-13: Assistant to Dr. Julie Shigekuni, special assistant to the Dean of Arts & Humanities, to launch an AsianAmerican Studies program at UNM (currently on hold for legislative approval).

Community & international projects: Aug 2013: Directed bilingual tour of "Breaking the Silence,"an oral history play on Japanese Americans in conjunctionwith "The Art of Gaman" exhibit in Hiroshima; lectured in Osaka and Oct. 2013: Organized forum, "From Hiroshima to Hope," co-sponsored by UNM Asian American Studies and PeaceStudies; invited 16 Japanese PAX members (Peace Ambassador Exchange) as presenters 2014: Asian American Legacy Stories (sponsored by Asian American Association of NM), public presentations of oralhistory interviews of Asian Americans of New Mexico (funded by NMHC)


Humanities-related commissions:"Breaking the Silence" (oral histories of 3 generations of Japanese Americans), written and performed to benefit thecivil liberties trial of Gordon Hirabayashi (2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom awardee) (1985)"Our Mothers? Stories" (based on oral histories of Washington women) - Special Commission, WashingtonCentennial (1989)"Most Dangerous Women" - (history of the international women peace movement) Women's International League forPeace & Freedom (1990)"I Dream a World: Black Women Who Changed America" - Museum of History & Industry (1990)"Gold! Gold! Gold!: Living the Turn of the Century" - Museum of History & Industry (1987)

Publication: ?Most Dangerous Women." In Maher, Jan: Bringing History to Life through Readers? Theater, Heinemann Publishing

Selected Awards & Honors:Florida State University (2002-2007): Outstanding Teacher Award, Dissertation Research Grant, KingsburyFellowship, Excellence in Teaching First Year Compositioninclusion in World Who's Who of Women (1997); Strength and Diversity: Japanese American Women 1885-1990,Burke Museum, Seattle (1994); Contemporary Minority Women Playwrights, Greenwood Press (1995); Who's Who inthe West (1995); "Washington Originals," a book on Washington women artist/activists (1990)


Form "signed" on: 17 Sep 2015, 11:23am MT


Mary OishiTitle: development director,, KUNM

Address: 1413 Girard Blvd. SE ABQ NM 87106USA

Email: poetishiOffice Phone: Phone: 505-366-4513Cel Phone: 505-366-4513Fax:

Institutional Affiliation (if any): UNMKUNMEducation and degrees: AA, Harrisburg Area Community CollegeBS, Behavioral Sciences, University of MarylandMA Humanities (classwork completed), California State University


Role: Humanities ScholarMulti-cast as a reader for several roles in "Citizen Min," I bring years of experience in spoken word performances. Inthe panel presentation, I offer an unique perspective on the "other" as the child of a mixed marriage who was raised ina Klu Klux Klan family; my experience reclaiming my identity as a Japanese American; and my pride in adding yetanother diverse voice to this project.


Founder, Common Bond, New Mexico Foundation.Founder of two ongoing poetry series: "Some of My Best Friends are Poets" (for writers) and "Q Words" (for theLBGTQ community).

Cast member of "Breaking the Silence," an oral history play on the Japanese American experience from Immigration,to Internment, to Redress, which was invited to Hiroshima, Japan in August 2013 for five bi-lingual performances.

Co-host of PAX (Peace Ambassadors Exchange), peace activists from the World Friendship Center, Hiroshima, andmistress of ceremonies for "From Hiroshima to Hope," a forum co-sponsored by UNM Asian American Studies andPeace Studies, October 2013.


"Spirit Birds They Told Me" (2011) a book of poetry on the themes of war and reconciliation and the journey fromshame to self-regard.

Poetry published in Harwood Anthology, Malpais Review and several website publications.


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Herbert TsuchiyaTitle: , Japanese American Citizens League,Seattle Chapter

Address: Seattle WA USA

Email: [email protected] Phone: Phone: 206-713-9232Cel Phone: 206-713-9232Fax:

Institutional Affiliation (if any):

Education and degrees: Pharmacy, University of Washington


Role: Humanities ScholarI will be a reader of scenes from Holly's play on her father and a presenter on the discussion panel. I am donating mytime and providing my own round trip transportation, from Seattle, Washington, as well as food and lodging because Iam a child of the Minidoka prison camp (age 11) and am dedicated to furthering understanding of this traumaticperiod in the lives of my family, community and our country.


I am a retired pharmacist turned actor, and have appeared in many of Nikki Louis's projects. Like most of thecompany of "Citizen Min in New Mexico," we are storytellers with an unique and specific story to tell: personalexperiences of American prison camps and post-war recovery of our civil liberties and self-esteem.

This will be my fifth participation in a project of Nikki's in New Mexico: an oral history reader in the NM Centennialsymposium on the Santa Fe Internment Camp (2012); sponsor of a visit to New Mexico of the Hiroshima peaceactivists who sponsored "Breaking the Silence" in Hiroshima (2013); oral history interviewer of Japanese Americanelders in Las Cruces, including Mayor Miyagishima's father (2014; reader/narrator of a NM Humanities-fundedpresentation, "Asian American Legacy Stories, Maxwell Museum auditorium (2014).


Multiple awards for civic activities in the Japanese, Chinese and peace-and-justice communities.Co-founder of Walk for Rice, an annual walk-a-thon to benefit the Asian Counseling Service of Seattle.


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Holly YasuiTitle: Co-founder and Project Coordinator, MinYasui Tribute Committee

Address: c/o Kori Moinat 1150 So. Williams St.Denver CO 80210U.S.A.

Email: [email protected] Phone: Phone: +52 1 415 107 56Cel Phone: 206-877-3931 (NiFax:

Institutional Affiliation (if any): Minoru Yasui Tribute CommitteeEducation and degrees: 1979. B.A. cum laude, University of Colorado1979-81. Film Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles1983. M.A., Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison1985. M.A., Communications, University of Wisconsin, Madison


Role: Humanities ScholarI am bringing my documentary film, ?Never Give Up: Minoru Yasui and the Fight for justice," and my biographicalplay, "Citizen Min? to various venues throughout the year 2016 to commemorate my father's civil rights legacy duringthe centennial of his birth. The state of New Mexico will be the first stop in my tour of the mountain states (Colorado,Utah and Idaho) and the Pacific Northwest (Washington and Oregon).

After the screening of clips from the film and the reading of excerpts from the play, I will share my thoughts about therelevance of Min Yasui?s civil rights legacy today, relate some experiences in the making of the film and work on theplay, then open the floor to questions and comments from the audience.

I will lead a special participatory talk-back, consisting of a poll of the audience on several general questions about civilrights, followed up by asking individuals about their experiences, as Native Americans or immigrants or offspring ofimmigrants, or being questioned or arrested, incarcerated, racially profiled and/or otherwise had Constitutional rightsviolated.

Currently a resident of Mexico, I am bilingual and can discuss these issues with Spanish-speaking as well asEnglish-speaking members of the audience. I will be available after the event to network with individuals andorganizations interested in carrying on the civil rights legacy of Minoru Yasui.


As a writer, filmmaker, and playwright, I have developed a multi-faceted understanding of my father's defense of civilrights for all people (Minoru Yasui brought the first test case challenging military orders during WW II that resulted inthe imprisonment of over 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry; he went on to become a civil rights leader inDenver, Colorado where I grew up), as well as a broad perspective from personal experiences, interviews, andresearch.

I have written about my father in various forms (script, play, essays, articles), and I have reviewed and recordedinterviews with individuals who worked with him or who are carrying on his legacy. I have conducted research at theNational Archives in Washington D.C.; the Auraria Library Archives in Denver, Colorado - the official repository of myfather?s papers; and the Oregon Historical Society, which holds extensive documentation on the forced removal of allpersons of Japanese ancestry from the state, and some Yasui family papers (from Hood River, Oregon).

Prior to my current work with the Min Yasui Tribute Committee, I worked with various non-profit organizations andeducational institutions in Guanajuato, Mexico; and before that in Seattle, Washington and Madison, Wisconsin. Asan instructor in both the United States and Mexico, and as a translator and community organizer with the Centro deDesarrollo Agropecuario (CEDESA) in Mexico, I have developed materials and methodologies for increasing theparticipation of individuals, especially women and young people, in meetings, workshops and discussions.


Selected publications:

"Minoru Yasui Day in Denver," Huffington Post, 2015. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/holly-yasui/

"A Daughter's View of Minoru Yasui, ?Civil Rights Hero?", Discover Nikkei, 2013, reprinted in 2014.http://www.discovernikkei.org/es/journal/author/yasui-holly/

"Japanese American in Mexico," a series of essays in Raven Chronicles, 1994-96.

"The Korean Rap," In: Skin Deep: Women Writing on Color, Culture, and Identity, ed. Elena Featherstone, 1994.

Workforce Resource Directory for Washington State Courts, Washington State Minority and Justice Commission,1993.

?Memorial Day at Minidoka? International Examiner, 1992.

Amicus curiae briefs (written by pro-bono attorneys):

Turkmen vs. Ashcroft, 2007. A class action civil rights lawsuit filed on behalf of Muslim, South Asian, and Arabnon-citizens swept up by the INS and FBI in a racial profiling dragnet following 9/11.

Hedges vs. Obama, 2012: a civil rights suit filed on behalf of Christopher Hedges, journalist formerly with the NewYork Times, challenging the National Defense Authorization which permits the U.S. government to indefinitely detainpeople suspected of supporting terrorist organizations.

Awards:

Winner, National Multicultural Playwrights Festival, Seattle Group Theatre, 1991

Residency, Hedgebrook Cottages for Women Writers, 1992

Panels:

Speaker, "The Life and Times of Minoru Yasui," Japanese American National Museum, 2014

Speaker, "Hirabayashi, Yasui and Korematsu: Family Perspectives," Japanese American National Museum, 2013

Speaker and playwright, "Judgements Judged and Wrongs Remembered," Japanese American National Museum,2004




Nancy R. BartlitTitle: Owner, Bartlit Enterprises

Address: 113 Monte Rey Drive North Los Alamos NM 87544USA

Email: [email protected] Phone: 505-672-9792Phone: 505-672-9792Cel Phone: Fax:

Institutional Affiliation (if any): former President, Los Alamos Historical Society; member, Historical Society of NM, speakers' list; Chautauquaspeaker under NM Humanities CouncilEducation and degrees: B.A., Smith College, Northampton, MA, 1958, History Major; M.A. University of NM, 1998, InternationalCommunications (Japanese focus), Completed two & one-half years course at UNM for Study of JapaneseIndustry and Technology, 1993-95 or 96.


Role: EvaluatorAsked to be an Evaluator; Formerly asked by Japanese American Citizens League to be historian consultant. Initialcommittee referenced "Silent Voices" as a resource.


Besides lectures to school children and adult programs on NM Internment Camps, Nancy has joined Bill Nishimura, asurvivor of the SF Internment Camp and two other camps, to speak at Manzanar, CA historic site (Feb, 2014); and totake the pilgrimage to Tule Lake (2009). She has visited Amache, Topaz, Bainbridge Island, Sand Island, andMinidoka camps. She has visited all four NM internment sites, as well as Gallup and Clovis. She served on thecommittee to ask the SF City Council to place a marker at the site of the SF Internment Camp and attended thehearing at the SF City Council chambers. She lectures on the controversy of this issue. She has attended twonational conferences of the Japanese American National Museum in Denver and Seattle. She visited Honolulu twiceto look for photos in their archives of the SF camp, which has a special collection of the SF experience. She spoke ata conference for Asian studies at Sophia University, Tokyo, 2001.


Coauthor of "Silent Voices of WWII: When Sons of the Land of Enchantment Met Sons of the Land of the RisingSun," Sunstone Press: Santa Fe, 2005 with Professor Everett M. Rogers, former Chair, Department ofCommunication and Journalism. Chapter 4 in "Silent Voices" is titled: The Japanese Relocation/Internment Camp. Co-chair of the successful 2012 Symposium "From Inside and Outside the Barbed Wire: New Mexico's MulticulturalWorld War II Internment Stories."April 21-22 at the NM History Museum, Santa Fe. A grant from NM HumanitiesCouncil assisted The Committee to Preserve NM's Internment History.




Ms. Rose T DiazTitle:

Address: 3408-D Indian School NE Albuquerque NM 87106US

Email: [email protected] Phone: 5052773570Phone: 5052556811Cel Phone: 5055509706Fax:

Institutional Affiliation (if any): Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Library and ArchivesEducation and degrees: 1980/B.S. History (American), Arizona State University

2006/Ph.D. History (American, 1865-Present), with an emphasis on the Contemporary American West,Women's History, and Public History


Role: EvaluatorAs a research historian and consultant overtime to various ethnic and minority history projects, I am pleased to beasked to participate in this project. This participation also extends my experience with the Asian American communitythat began as a consultant to a past planning grant project on oral history and documentation related to manyfounding members of Albuquerque's Asian community. Valuing the contributions of community members to thehistories of communities is a research and personal interest that I have worked to explore and facilitate over a fortyyear career.


I have provided consulting services for innovative community and oral history project training and development andspecialized consulting for new and expanding research, library, and archives projects, including grant and technicalreport writing. Areas of research and/or areas of organizational training include public history, minority urban history,cultural and community history, twentieth-century western history including New Mexico history, regional anddocumentary studies, archival and collection management, political archives, oral history, and historic preservationand paper conservation for archival collections. I have also offered a range of oral history and archival workshops forstudents, faculty, staff, and community groups. Additionally, I retired from the UNM Library Special CollectionsDepartment after twenty five years where I also participated in community outreach efforts and building partnershipsfor the recovery of community based and minority history throughout New Mexico.


From 2012-2014 I managed an Administration for Native Americans Grant ($340,000) to stabilize and expand theLibrary and Archives at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. A new grant was written and funded for for 2014-2017($401,000) that allows for archival management training in New Mexico's Pueblo communities. This allows foroutreach efforts and the participation of a variety/levels of community dialogue and participation that is centeredaround tribal libraries. Both of these most recent activities only reiterate and support the necessity for professionalassessment, consultation, and evaluation by community based historians and other field professionals. Theserelationships and professional development opportunities greatly enhance the final products and guarantee accurateand authentic historical documentation. I feel this is the important contribution I can make to projects.



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Supporting Document #1http://nmhum.org/grants_files/360/NMJACL.YasuiSupportLtr.pdfDescription: Letter of support: Min Yasui's nomination for Presidential Medal of FreedomAttached to grant on 16 Sep 2015, 11:52am MT

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January 27, 2015 The President The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20500 Dear Mr. President: The New Mexico Japanese American Citizens League (NMJACL) is proud and honored to support the nomination of Minoru Yasui for a 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of his demonstrated action throughout his lifetime to defend civil and human rights. As an organization dedicated to promote, protect, and fight for civil and human rights, the NMJACL believes that Mr. Yasui is an ideal candidate to receive this highest honor. Although Minoru Yasui’s commitment was perhaps most dramatically demonstrated when he intentionally violated the military curfew imposed upon American citizens of Japanese descent during World War II, Yasui’s life is replete with courageous acts. He was never silenced by fear or bitterness, and he never stopped fighting for equality. Minoru Yasui fought for the rights of Latinos, African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Pacific Americans, youth, people with disabilities, seniors, international human rights agencies and many others. A visionary well ahead of his time, Yasui recognized the common struggle of all marginalized people and dedicated his life to advocate and achieve results on their behalf. The NMJACL traces its origins to 1947. The mission of the NMJACL is to pursue, protect, and fight for the civil and human rights of all people in and outside of New Mexico. The NMJACL recognizes the importance of education and, following New Mexico’s multicultural traditions, promotes the awareness of the Japanese culture in the community. Our organization has a special connection with Minoru Yasui, as recalled by a past Chapter President. In 1984, for a JACL Mountain Plains District meeting in Albuquerque, NM, we were able to get Pete Domenici, one of the most powerful Republicans in the US Senate to be our keynote. We told Yasui about this, and of course, he came to the meeting. We sat Yasui next to Domenici.

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We then violated an unwritten rule in JACL, letting Yasui speak before Senator Domenici. Yasui spoke of a trip to Egypt, and despite its grand history, he commented on the poverty that he saw. He went on to express his love for the United States. Senator Domenici, got up, put his prewritten speech on the rostrum, and said . . . Min . . . after all you have gone through, I do not know of any person who loves this country more than you do . . . some people who have gone through less, become bitter and hate this country. But you love this country. What you and the Japanese Americans went through was wrong, and I will help . . . Domenici spoke of his family history, how his family had suffered some discrimination at the onset of World War II because his dad was an Italian immigrant . . . Domenici said that what his family went through was mild compared to what Japanese – Americans went through.

Domenici is a very stoic individual. But Yasui reached into his heart and soul, and by doing so changed history. On that October evening, redress for Japanese Americans became a bipartisan cause.

Minoru Yasui continues to be a role model for NMJACL, because he fought tirelessly to bend the arc of history toward equity and justice. Yasui precipitated the arrest in his curfew case because he wanted a proceeding that would vindicate the Constitutional rights of all Americans. And he never gave up in that case. He appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, and although he lost there in wartime, he petitioned 40 years later for a writ of coram nobis, alleging that government officials had altered and destroyed evidence relating to the loyalty of Japanese Americans and had failed to advise the Supreme Court of the falsity of allegations in a seminal military report. Even though his conviction was vacated, Yasui died while appealing the denial of an evidentiary hearing so that this governmental misconduct could be demonstrated.

Minoru Yasui was decades ahead of his time and a true pioneer in the cross-racial and cultural fight for civil and human rights. His life is a model of meritorious contributions to the national interests of the United States, to world peace and to significant public endeavors. For all that he achieved through his life’s work that continues to inspire us today, Minoru Yasui is a most worthy recipient of a 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom

Most Respectfully,

Calvin Kobayashi Interim President New Mexico Japanese American Citizens League