Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” Series (This month on the Second Thursday!) Wartime Resisters of Conscience at the Catalina Federal Honor Camp Prison guard watching prisoners housed at the Catalina Federal Honor Camp build a culvert (National Archives, College Park, Maryland; date unknown) on Mt. Lemmon Free Dinnertime 7 to 8:30 p.m. Presentation by Thursday Cherstin Lyon, Ph.D. May 13, 2021 Online via Zoom, see link below This month only, the “Third Thursday Food for Thought” monthly program will be on the Second Thursday of the month. (Flyer date February 20, 2021)

The Catalina Federal Honor Camp located on First reunion of the Tucsonians, 1947, courtesy of Ken Yoshida, available through Special Collections, University of Arizona Library the Catalina Highway from Tucson up to Mount "Tucsonians" Oral History Project Collection, Lemmon housed prisoners who were large- created and donated by Cherstin Lyon and Nicole Branton ly responsible for building the highway. These https://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/collections/tucsonians-oral-history-project-collection prisoners were a part of a prison reform move- ment and the good roads movement in American history during the 1930s. During World War II, a different set of individuals were sentenced to work at the Catalina prison. These were resisters of conscience. Prominent among them were Gordon Hirabayashi, other Japanese Americans who came to call themselves the "Tucsonians," Hopi, and Jehovah's Witnesses. This presentation will explain why these indi- Former prisoners (left to right) Roger Nasevema, Ken Yoshida, viduals became resisters of conscience, and how Gordon Hirabayashi, Sus Yenokida, Harry Yoshikawa, and their prison experiences shaped their under- Noboru Taguma at the 2002 unveiling of the interpretive kiosk at the Gordon Hirabayashi Recreation Site standing of their own wartime citizenship. (Photograph courtesy of Martha Nakagawa) (See next page) To register for the Zoom program go to https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eCJnNTJ_QHWvmLE2Yn5a8w For more information contact Old Pueblo at 520-798-1201 or [email protected]. Wartime Resisters of Conscience at the Catalina Federal Honor Camp on Mt. Lemmon

Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s guest speaker, Cherstin M. Lyon, Ph.D., is a Professor of History and the Director of the Honors College at Southern Oregon University. She is the author of several books and articles about Japanese Americans, public history, and citizenship.

Most relevant to this presentation is her book Prisons and Patriots: Japanese American Wartime Citizenship, Civil Disobedience, and Historical Memory about the Japanese Americans who were sentenced to the Catalina Federal Honor Camp on Mt. Lemmon.

She also has authored several entries for the Densho Online Encyclopedia, including articles on Gordon Hirabayashi, the Tucson Federal Prison (another term for the Catalina Federal Honor Camp), and the Tucsonians. The Catalina Federal Honor Camp is a cultural resource in the U.S. Coronado National Forest, Arizona.

Left: Catalina Federal Honor Camp, 1945 (Coronado National Forest photo)

Right: Archaeological remnants of one of the Camp’s buildings, 2020 (Al Dart photo)

For more information contact Old Pueblo Archaeology Center at [email protected] or 520-798-1201