Tule Lake National Monument

Gloria Hisako Tamura Morita was incarcerated at Tule Lake.

Senryu Poetry as Folk and Community Expression By Marvin K. Opler and F. Obayashi Published in Journal of American Folklore Vol. 58 January – March, 1945 No. 227

Kinichi Watanabe was incarcerated at Manzanar and Tule Lake.

Homer Yasui was incarcerated at Tule Lake.

Bill Nishimura answered the loyalty questionnaire on his own terms, renounced his citizenship at Tule Lake, and was held until 1947. When he was allowed to stay, the United States became his country.

Born in Little Tokyo, Hikoji Takeuchi was shot by a military policeman while gathering scrap wood at Manzanar, answered "no, no" on the loyalty questionnaire and was sent to Tule Lake.

Marvin Opler, the War Relocation Authority's community analyst at Tule Lake, watched fireball ghosts, fox possession, death omens and folk healers flourish in the segregation center in 1944–46 — then found almost no believers when he went back to the same people after they left.

The U.S. government called it “evacuation” and “relocation.” The National Park Service explains why those wartime euphemisms mislead, and which terms more accurately describe what happened to more than 120,000 people.