 So again, welcome to Preservation and Action Advocacy in Asian and Pacific Islander American communities. And my name is Michelle Magalong and I am president of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans and Historic Preservation, as well as presidential postdoctoral fellow at the University of Maryland Historic Preservation Program. And so before we begin and before I introduce our speakers today, I just want to say happy November. Yesterday we kicked off both what is Native American Heritage Month and Sick Awareness and Appreciation Month. So, you know, feel free to join us in the chat and share with us where you may be joining in from, including, you know, if you want to an acknowledgement of what ancestral indigenous lands you may be on today. I am here in Washington DC, the ancestral and unceded lands of the Piscataway people. And so I am thrilled to have folks, these speakers join me today, some background about API HIP and the sessions that you've been on today of actually over a decade ago, back in 2007 API HIP was created during the National Trust conference around this time. And it was based on one Japanese American, two folks from Guam and a handful of others who saw that there was very few faces that you like you see on today's Zoom that looked like us. But those folks knew that there was a lot of work happening across the country, but we weren't in the larger historic preservation field and that is what created what we now know as API HIP. And so you'll be hearing from some folks who are partners with API HIP. Also, I, you know, as president, and I have a board member here today who is Tej Paul Singh Baniwal and you'll hear from him from UC Riverside, he's a doctoral student there and also co-founder of the Sick American History Project. And we had lined up Joe Kinata from Guam Preservation Trust, but a last minute issue came up and he's unable to join us, but you can see the work he's doing. And with folks from Guam on the session that's scheduled for this Friday at 315 Eastern. And Joe sends his regards, and he hopes to see you guys at his session on Friday. We also have Mia Russell, who is with the Japanese American Confinement Sites Consortium and the Japanese American National Museum. Dan Sakura, who's with Sakura Conservation Strategies, and we have Ed Tepporn from Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation. And you'll be hearing from each of them. And as you had heard throughout today's sessions, today's election day, and today I wanted to invite these folks. I invited our speakers in thinking about what does advocacy look like for, for us in doing work within Asian and Pacific Islander American communities. And so I gave folks our speakers homework of what does it look like you convert those policy folders that the one pagers you leave when you visit a member, you know, an elected official into a zoom format. So, you know, what does it mean to pitch your story, pitch your project and call for action in less than five minutes. So this is going to be kind of a quick fire of presentations. And so I will turn this over to to touch Paul to kick it off. And hopefully everyone can hear me. Good afternoon, everybody, my name and good morning and good night. I guess, you know, depending on where you're joining us from. Everybody, my name is there for St. Vanua I am a PhD candidate I use to Riverside focusing on sick American history, hence the reason why I launched the sick American history project. So what exactly is the sick American history project plain and simple. It's a product dedicated to unearthing preserving and promoting the history of six in the United States. And we see these as three different stages of highlighting sick American history. So, with, with several preservation organizations and historical societies already out there looking to preserve history, and those that aim to promote diversity and inclusion, why did I feel the need to start the sick American history project. And so that I pose this question to everybody listening when talking about American history or when you learned about American history, do these four years ring a bell 1899 1912 1957 and 2012. Now I'm not asking if these years were highlighted or stress because that's extremely wishful thinking, but simply asking if these years were even worth a mention. It would be great to get a poll, you know, because we're familiar with 1496 1776 1865 2001 those years are engraved in our minds and have been since elementary school. Other years that aren't as common but still mentioned quite a bit, such as 1882 and 1942 when talking about Asian American history. But when we think about American history or when we're talking about American history, do we know what happened in these four years, you know in 1899 the San Francisco country reported that the first sick Americans were allowed to land. And it was a form of gatekeeping by white immigration office officials who are enforcing laws by white politicians. And in 1912, you know, we get the first sick American institution in the United States the first sick place of worship in Stockton. In 1907 we get the first Asian American member of Congress in the leapsing song. And in 2012, you know folks say that there's an article that said that you know it takes a mask or a tragedy for someone to be accepted as American. In 2012, there was not only the centennial celebration of Stockton good daughter but there's also the mass shooting at Oak Creek in which seven individuals were murdered by white supremacists. So what's the solution. So sick American history project beyond just presenting at conferences and you know we're conducting archival research and oral histories with over 400 are useful articles and 30 hours of oral history research already done. I'm working to designate sick American sites as historic landmarks at the local state and federal level building a sick American archive and museum. I'm hoping to recreate history and bringing missing pieces back to life through 3d imaging and work on short videos and films about sick American history. And these are all current projects or those that are, you know, in R&D stages right now. You know, next is the way that the public can help. So there are a lot of things that are happening in the back end so we'll be officially launching more projects so you can help or you can get involved by signing up for our mailing list. You can visit our website it's www.sickamericanhistory.org and author in the chat as well. Oh, someone already did thank you Michelle. And for another bottom of that you'll see a chance to sign up for our mailing list and also follow us on social media which I'll share at the end of this presentation, and then other ways you can get involved and you know the final way is to donate. We do have a donation link set up officially and it's a task to put the donation for those who. Oh, sorry. We have a lot more than the chat as well. We have a lot of exciting products underway and we'll slowly be launching them again. So, to learn more and get involved and updates of our project. Just follow us on social media. Here are ways you can follow us on social media, and to sign up for our newsletter you can visit our website at the very bottom of the first page and if you know you want to get in touch with me personally, you have my email right there. Hopefully, I saved a little bit of time at the end, Michelle for one quick last thing. And, you know, I'm not sure if there's been a study on this or not but it would be very interesting to see the numbers behind all the funding that's distributed. That's the true showing of what histories really matter. The funding is going to majority white preservationists for white historic sites. Do not tell me that you truly value diversity, but then the typical response we're here is, Oh, we have special funding or special grants for marginalized underrepresented underserved community so please apply for it. Well that's lovely but you know we also must acknowledge that folks like me didn't grow up knowing that grants were available. Now that I know they're available I wasn't sure how to apply for them, but when I learned that then I'm so caught up with all the other requests to volunteer my time and expertise to educate people about my community's history for free, that is. And furthermore, these specific grants are just a small pocket of funding. That's so many amazing orgs. And individuals and products by diverse communities are all fighting for the small piece of pie, literally hitting marginalized communities against one another. I know a lot of amazing individuals organization and projects that deserve the white people funding, but there's so many loopholes bureaucratic drama or politics that a lot of marginalized communities and underrepresented communities don't really have time for. We want to preserve and save our community's history. So for those who do have that time for you know, the loophole the drama bureaucratic drama and the politics, it's a luxury. So if you truly value diversity and want to fund these projects have a conversation with them. Don't just say apply here or join this committee, a lot of Oregon people are qualified for these grants but there's some hurdle. So just talk to them and see how you can help ensure they receive the funding and help that they need to preserve their histories, truly elevate these voices. Thank you. Hopefully I made the five minute limit. Thanks, page Paul. Wonderful and great responses on on the chat so be sure to see what everyone has been sharing. I'm going to go next and talk about a project that I've been a part of here in Washington DC that is called a PI and DC here in plain sight. It is a Asian American historic context study for Washington DC that was funded. It's part of areas funded through the National Park Service underrepresented communities grant and through DC preservation league and the DC preservation agency here. So, it launched right before COVID and as a team we had hoped to do workshops in person to invite the community to, to share their places of significance here in the district. But as you know with COVID we us like many other groups had to switch it up and do virtual programming and also delay our timing with a lot of our community engagement and archival research since we couldn't even go to you know the National Archives or or any of the local collections for a long time. And so this is just a snippet of a postcard that we have created. And the issue that on hand for what brought forward API in DC is the need to identify document and preserve Asian American history here in the district. As much as you see in this photo, the DC Chinatown gate has been something that people often. It's something that is known, but what people don't know are the people, you know what what the general public doesn't know are the people. And so if you're wondering why are they playing that volleyball in front of the DC Chinatown gate. It's because nine man volleyball has been going on in Chinese American communities for decades. It's, it's a highly competitive tournament that travels across the United States. And for those who grew up from the 50s and 60s 70s. They didn't have public parks or public spaces to to do 999 volleyball or other, you know, forms of recreation instead they were in the alleys of DC Chinatown DC Chinatown has been consistently threatened by issues of displacement and demolition and the fact that the current Chinatown is now where the federal circle is the current Chinatown has become what people now referred to as not Chinatown but China block, because it has shrunk in size. We have the capital one arena where NHL and NBA games are played, and as well as the convention center so imagine those places if you come to DC that used to be Chinatown. And there are in language markers signage in Chinatown for Chipotle and urban outfitters and McDonald's there are very few Chinese American owned and operated businesses or Asian American in DC, and across the district and more there are very few landmark designations across the district that are associated with Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. And so the historic context statement was interesting as a, you know, it's a challenge, right, not much published, but a lot known by word of mouth and community knowledge. And so our work has been on how do you look at community engagement and archival research, both in person and now in this virtual world. You know, and addressing issues that are not of just historical significance, but also not only with COVID but you know, we felt like in the last year, you know, violence against Asian Americans, including here in DC was heavily felt and tying those historical connections of violence and discrimination of central, you know, over the past 100 years to what's being felt now. So we created this historic context statement study. This is here a flyer to do for a research survey, and you see some images that people have started to share with us, not only in Chinatown but let's see. Laundry and dry cleaner and Adams Morgan, the Korean legation building, you know, even issues of diplomacy and government relations and also, you know, from even what's the traditional Chinese restaurants that you see throughout the district. And here you could see how people have supported the work that we do contribute to the project as you see there was a survey so we're asking folks to help us find archival materials of our histories here in DC. We also are looking at how can you support it in a larger scale support the National Park Service underrepresented communities grant program. Every year it goes up for approvals for the appropriations and, you know, what has been, it was established for I think over $3 million and every year it's only appropriated for at most 750,000. So we every year API hip and other organizations fight for full appropriation, not just partial. And then also ways other ways you can support is to support preservation funding that is more inclusive and more expensive as Tedgewald noted on how we do historic preservation and conservation work in our community in API communities. And then thanks to our supporters as I mentioned the National Park Service DC preservation League 1882 who is the fiscal sponsor for this we have a full team you can visit the website here. We have member partners like the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and cultural heritage, and I am thankful for my graduate students who have been assisting from the University of Maryland's historic preservation program. And so you can learn more by you can hover over this QR code but I can also drop the link later on about this project. And so it'll take you straight to the form for the Stark resources list. And then that was a not your own supposed to see that one yet, but and that's just a quick snippet of API in DC the project we're doing here in Washington DC. And I would like to hand it off to me and now. Thank you Michelle, I will share my screen now. And thanks to all the presenters today and all the great work that they're doing. Thank you my slide now. I am Mia Russell, I manage the Japanese American Confinement Sites Consortium, which is a national network of organizations working to preserve sites and history related to the Japanese American incarceration experience during World War two. And today I'm going to share some information about the Japanese American Confinement Education Act. I have some information about the existing Japanese American Confinement Sites grant program. This program was established by Congress in 2006 to support the preservation and interpretation of World War two Japanese American Confinement Sites. This is a two to one matching grant program administered by the National Park Service. Since the first year of funded projects in 2009, over $32.8 million in funding has gone to 247 projects in 22 states and Washington DC. And as Michelle mentioned with the other grant project this is something grant program sorry we do have to make sure that this stays on the books every single year. And more so, the program itself is at risk currently. I just wanted to provide a quick list of some of the types of projects that have been made possible by this program. This includes historic reconstruction exhibitions, documentaries educational curricula oral histories, primary resource digitization and access and more. This is in no way exhaustive but I hope it can begin to give you an idea of really the complete transformation of the landscape of the preservation and public education related to the Japanese American World War two experience. I think I can safely say that the impact on public awareness and the state of these historic sites themselves would have been unimaginable at the time that the project was conceived a short 15 years ago, but that's the exact intent behind that program. The issue today is this program was originally funded with $38 million. The original funding is set to be exhausted at the end of 2022. And as it stands the entire program itself is set to sunset at that time, according to the original legislation. Another shortcoming of the program that I just wanted to touch on is that especially early on it could result in competition between community organizations that obviously have very related missions, and it could also sometimes result in a duplication of efforts. So the Jax consortium is working to prevent this issue moving forward, and the consortium itself is actually the result of two Jax grants that were awarded that enabled us to hold all camp summits between organizations, and organize a framework for moving forward in a way that could enhance collaboration between community organizations, which allows us to increase the overall impact of our individual and collective efforts. So though the Japanese American Confinement Sites grant program is currently endangered, our solution today is the Japanese American Confinement Education Act, which is a bipartisan effort organizing, originating with representatives Doris Matsui and Rob Bishop, and other workshops in the 116th Congress. And this would permanently reauthorize the Jax grant program within the National Park Service, remove that sunset and authorize another $38 million in funding, and establish a new educational program modeled after the recently passed Holocaust Never Again Education Act. This would authorize an additional $10 million over five years to specifically go towards research education, and the distribution of educational materials to promote a better understanding of the causes of the problem. So the intent for this aspect of the program is to be collaborative in nature to have a national impact, rather than that piecemeal competitive impact of the Jax grant program as it exists today. So we did have a hearing in the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forest and Public Lands back in May. We are still looking for additional sign-ons in both the House and Senate, especially from Republicans as we move forward in full committee and in the Senate. And we're especially looking of course at those states that do have Japanese American Confinement Sites and related populations within those states. So Michelle, if you could drop those congress.gov links. In the House we have 65 cosponsors for HR in 1831. That includes 56 Democrats and nine Republicans. And in the Senate, for Senate Bill 988 we have eight Democrat cosponsors. We are looking for more cosponsors, especially in the Senate. So if you would be willing to reach out to your members of Congress please get in touch with me for more information and our advocacy toolkit and I'm happy to support you in aiming any materials specifically towards your organization or your member of Congress. So you can find me at Mia at jaxi.org or www.jaxi.org and on Twitter and Facebook at at Jax Consortium. We are continuing to post updates online at jaxi.org slash jace act, but I will stop there for now and save time for questions so thank you. Thanks, Mia. And next we have Dan. Michelle, thank you so much for this opportunity. My name is Dan Sakura. I'm the principal at Sakura Conservation Strategies. I'm located the ancestral homeland of the Piscataway and Anacostan people. And I'm here to talk about Minidoka National Historic Site, a unit of national park system located on the ancestral homeland of the Shoshone Bannock tribes in South Central Idaho. We were recently learned about a proposed massive wind project within two miles of Minidoka known as the Lava Ridge wind project. So just a little bit about my family background immediately after Pearl Harbor, my dad and his family was ordered to evacuate or relocate from their homes by force in western Washington. They were sent to the Pialup fairgrounds and they could only bring what they could carry. Here's a map showing how the government created an exclusion zone in western Washington and Oregon and directed about 13,000 Japanese Americans from the states to the Minidoka Relocation Center which was located just north of Twin Falls, Idaho. Here's a picture of three generations of my family at Minidoka, my great grandmother, my grandparents, my dad, my uncles, and they're dressed up because on that day, my grandfather and three of his brothers joined the US military. Minidoka was one of the highest, some of the highest rates of military service of any of the camps. So during the war, the Minidoka Relocation Center was home to over 13,000 Japanese Americans. They were held behind barbed wire with guard towers that conditions in camp were very difficult. Almost 200 people died in camp, mostly young infants and elderly people, almost 1,000 people joined Minidoka, joined the military out of camp and 73 paid the ultimate price with their lives fighting overseas. You can see from these pictures how flat the terrain is and the water tower how visible it is on the horizon. So this is a historic map of the camp. You can see the squares which were the barracks blocks which were built to house and prison Japanese Americans. It was self-sufficient. They had farm fields nearby. Today the National Park Service currently manages a portion of the site as the Minidoka National Historic Site. They recently opened up a brand new park visitor center. And they also preserve the camp entrance which is located on the left side there. And that sort of squiggly property is a part of the park that the LS Power, New York Private Equity Company tried to build a 500 kilovolt power line over the park in 2009. But fortunately, the Park Service was able to beat that back. Today the National Park serves as a site for learning and healing because of its remote location that provides an immersive experience for park visitors that provides views of open mountains and distant planes. And most importantly, it gives visitors a chance to understand what it must have been like to be held behind barbed wire because of your race for over three years. It's also a site for healing. It's where Japanese Americans, Minidoka survivors and descendants come together every year. This is pre-COVID, a reconstructed honor roll at the entrance of the park. And it shows how powerful this site is for the Japanese American community and how we've overcome really difficult challenges, including the pain of losing communities and homes and farms and property during the incarceration. Unfortunately, though, we learned in August 2021 just this year of a proposal from the Biden administration announced by Secretary Holland to build a 1000 megawatt wind project, the Lava Ridge wind project just north of Minidoka. We are encouraged that secretaries committed to engage with communities to ensure that these projects are done thoughtfully. And we're hopeful that the department will will continue with that commitment will follow secretary's commitment. So just to orient folks, here's a map of southern Idaho. You can see Boise to the left there in the west, craters of the Moon National Monument, Twin Falls, and the Lava Ridge project area is very large. It's so large that Minidoka doesn't even show up on the map at that scale. So LS Power, based out in New York, wants to build wind turbines as tall as 740 feet. You can see how tall these towers are in relation to the Washington Monument and the Seattle Space Needle. The turbine blades exceed the wingspan of a Boeing 747 and the towers are as high as equivalent of a 74 story building. Just also to give you a sense the Minidoka Guard Tower is about 26 feet tall and they'd be equivalent to 28 Guard Towers stacked end to end. So this is a map showing this massive wind project, 400 towers, 80% would be within the viewshed of Minidoka. The towers would form a visual wall that would blot out almost a third of the park viewshed with spinning turbines and flashing lights. The BLM is putting 14 towers on the historic footprint of Minidoka and the closest tower would be located within two miles and clearly visible from the Park Visitor Center. So in terms of the process, the BLM is currently in NEPA developing an environmental impact statement. The scoping period has closed and they're working to prepare a draft EIS. And currently with that the BLM is working to comply with section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. And there are monthly meetings with stakeholders on that. In terms of the partners, the Japanese-American community, Japanese-American Confinement-Sized Consortium were united in opposition to this proposal, which would desecrate sacred land. We're very interested in developing partnerships with the broader AAPI community. We believe that this is an affront to the AAPI community. And we're grateful for the leadership of preservation and conservation partners, particularly the National Trust for Historic Preservation. And I'd like to acknowledge the great work of Betsy Merritt with the trust and her colleague Christopher Cody for providing excellent public comments for NEPA. We're also grateful to support from NPCA and many other organizations. So in terms of how you can help, section 106, looking for consulting parties to engage with BLM, we plan to share a sign-on letter for organizations to sign on the more the better. We plan to do that in the next few weeks. We're also looking to call attention to this project in the media. And we're also looking for any experts, any people that have experts with the utility industry transmission and wind generation. If you have any information, please feel free to contact me or the Friends of Minidoka. I'm an advisor to the Friends of Minidoka, as well as the Minidoka Pilgrimage Committee. Their contact information is there and will be put in the chat. So folks have any questions I would strongly encourage you to reach out. We desperately need help to fight this effort. I look forward to answering questions during the Q&A period. Thanks, Dan. A lot of really helpful information there of how folks can help. Next, we have Ed. Thanks so much, Michelle. And thank you to APIA HIPP and to the National Trust for Historic Preservation for this opportunity to be part of the Passport Conference. And I just want to say to all my panelists, it is an honor to be presenting alongside all of you and the important work that you're doing. I am going to be talking about the Angel Island immigration station. And for those of you who are unfamiliar with Angel Island, what I do want to share is that Angel Island sits on the ancestral lands of the coast Miwok Indians. And from 1910 to 1940, over 500,000 immigrants were either processed or detained through Angel Island. These immigrants came from 80 different countries, but the majority of them were Asian Pacific Islander because of the exclusionary immigration policies that started with the Page Act of 1875 that continued with the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and many other immigration policies over the next decades that ultimately created this zone where if you came from an Asian Pacific Islander country, if you were a laborer, more often than not you could not enter the US and even if you were in the US, you could not become a US citizen. So what you see on the screen here are just a couple of examples of the historical images that detail what happened to the immigrants at Angel Island. While most of us might be familiar with the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island and definitely there was detention and exclusion that happened there at a smaller scale. Today, the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island stand as a symbol of our country's welcoming of immigrants. Angel Island has sometimes been called the Ellis Island of the West or the West Coast Ellis Island. But the reality is what Angel Island reminds of us as a darker chapter in US history that focuses on the exclusion of specific groups and the detention of specific groups. That detention and immigration process at Angel Island was very different if you were an Asian immigrant compared to a European immigrant. Asian immigrants were forced to undergo much more intensive and invasive medical screenings where they had to strip completely naked. The detention lasted anywhere from three weeks to three months all the way on up to two years for Asian immigrants, whereas for European immigrants, that detention was typically just a matter of days. And then the Board of Special Inquiry Processes or in other words the interrogations of Asian immigrants was much more detailed and in particular for Chinese immigrants they were asked question upon question, hundreds of questions trying to verify their identity. Angel Island today is actually a story of preservation and advocacy in that in the early 1970s there were plans to tear down all the buildings and turn them into picnic grounds and campsites. But luckily thanks to community organizing we were able to save those buildings and what you see on this picture is what the site looks like today so I definitely invite you to come and visit Angel Island in person because there's nothing like experiencing history where it happened. Or if you're not able to make it out to the Bay Area, then to check out our website www.aisf.org where we have a couple of virtual tours that we've created. The big challenge for us has been ferry service. So as you see from the screen, the Angel Island is smack dab in the middle of San Francisco Bay. And there's one ferry service from San Francisco and one ferry service from Tiber in a town north of San Francisco. And last year the company that operates the San Francisco ferry service announced that they were going to be stopping service, which meant that there would no longer be direct service from San Francisco to Angel Island. Now can you picture living in New York City or visiting New York City, and not having ferry service from New York City to the Statue of Liberty in Ellis Island. This is the equivalent of the situation that we faced at Angel Island. And so we decided that it was important for us to take a stand and to activate the community. And what you see on the screen is really similar to what you've heard from some of the previous speakers in terms of some of the different strategies that we use from exploring legal representation through social media and media awareness campaigns to reaching out to various policymakers, including various representatives as well as San Francisco City Council, as well as mobilizing a community sign on process. Thanks to many of you who are actually watching today and your organizations we were able to secure over seven news reports, an organizational letter with 32 sign on and over 375 public comments, all of them protesting the potential stopping a ferry service from San Francisco. So I'm glad to share that that process has led to a success where there's been another company that has agreed to come on to provide ferry service continued from San Francisco to Angel Island. They are still in the process of negotiations but what we've learned actually just earlier this week is that they are holding a public hearing this coming Friday where they are going to take public comments on some proposed fare increases and you see those increases on the left hand side of the screen. Currently, if an adult fair is 1950 round trip and they're proposing to raise to raise that to $31 for youth and seniors and people living with disabilities, the fair is currently $11 and they're proposing to raise that to $17. And so what we're asking all of you is to help send an email to public hearing at goldengate.org by 430pm Pacific this coming Friday and to share your thoughts on these fare increases from our vantage point. We appreciate Golden Gate Ferry District coming in and making sure that there's still direct ferry service. There's actually a reduced fare for local visitors if you're using a commuter card. However, the fares for adults and children who are not using a commuter card, we're concerned that it will potentially make it harder for for visitors to pay this higher fee. So again, the email is there. And if you want to learn more about Angel Island or other ways to get involved, feel free to to connect with us on any of our social media links. Thanks so much. Thanks, Anne. So we have just a few minutes left. And I wanted to open it up for folks who may have some questions for our speakers or for if our speakers have questions for each other as well, you can do that. You can either put it in the chat, or you can raise your hand, and I can, we can unmute you if you have a question for one of our speakers. But there's some questions directly in the chat. I know what I see right now for for Ed about the ferry service. And just as, as people are putting in their questions. I know for the ferry service issue, you know, something that API hip and that I brought up to San Francisco's planning department. I wanted to talk about justice and equity in planning as the San Francisco planning department had laid out their equity resolution and one of the key studies that I brought to their own attention, ironically, was about this very service issue, and that it's not just the historic preservation issue, right? It's about access. And, you know, that planners in San Francisco particularly transportation planners and planners who, you know, support like access to green spaces and recreation, and not just history and also as arts and culture to make those connections in the forms of planning that they do in San Francisco and how we, how we do this right like preservation is not in this like silo that it doesn't exist and doesn't interact with other forms of planning and policy and so hopefully today, you got a little taste of how advocacy looks, what advocacy looks like in historic preservation, right? Some of them are direct ask going to members of Congress which is really important others is providing public comment, donating, liking our social media pages right forwarding that along. And so, yes, they're, you know, so these are some ways and I don't know, I don't see any questions on here. I have a question I see here from Evelyn Hang Yen for Dan, how do you garner interest and energy from communities for a site that's far away from many of the urban areas from places like Minidoka, Idaho. Very good question. They are far, Minidoka is far away from the where survivors and descendants live primarily Oregon, Washington, Alaska, California, Hawaii. This is something that we as descendants and survivors feel very strongly about people are incredibly motivated. This, as I said before it is sacred ground for us. We did not ask to be put in a prison camp our families in the middle of southern Idaho, but we were there. And this is our place to heal and to deal with the pain and the trauma of losing everything. So, this is something that, and Mia as former executive director friends Minidoka can I'm sure going to test this this is something that we are going to fight to the last breath. Yes. Let's see what other questions. I know Barbara White had put a comment. There is a book on the National Park Service released a theme study API theme study in 2017, and there was a small distribution of the printed book. I'm trying to drop in the hyperlink for the PDF versions of the chapters, but if you would like to copy a printed copy which is a rare find email Barbara. Thank you Barbara. Are there any recommended methodologies one and could employ to get Asian American preservation initiatives in their own area or on a local basis I don't know if any of the speakers would like to jump on to that question. I don't know. Yeah. You know one thing I'd say it's like, I don't know if this evening plus why that's like official methodology but like you know just couldn't I take connect with the local community. Right because typically from what I've seen it from my experience the local community is doing something, which is we just may not be aware of it because we're sitting in our ivory towers, miles away. So first thing first connect with the local community see if they're already initiatives that are going on or if they're community leaders or sometimes it's just one individual or, you know, two individuals for example, in Berkeley we have this amazing South Asian radical history walking tour in Berkeley and that's done by two individuals who, you know, take some time out of their day job on the weekend and do this walking tour. And it's, you know, something that you can look over if you're not aware so just recommend the first thing do it just, you know, rather than coming in as an outsider and trying to, you know, launch this initiative see if there's something else already happening, and at the local level that you can just assist with. Thanks to Paul. Any other folks want to respond. So, one of the things I think it was on the session for women's preservation. One of the things that I dropped in the chat was, you know, thinking about even solidarity work in allyship and supporting each other and kind of as what Paul's saying is a lot of work is being done. And so it's really just elevating the work that folks are doing. And it may not take on traditional preservation forms. Right. For many Asian American native Hawaiian Pacific Islander communities, it's not done in traditional preservation forms. So there are some folks who are experts at section 106 and there's others who will never touch section 106 but they see their work in different ways in different practices, right. And so and as Tedch called mentioned the Berkeley South Asian radical walking tour history walking tour. You know, it's just one of those examples that we've tried to elevate through API hip API hip is a national organization where a volunteer run. But the what we do is we bring together on in our networks, folks like who you see here today, who are experts in different fields, who call we call out upon each other as Dan had right like we need technicians we need folks who understand like the energy work, you know, industry we need folks who can write the technical reports, right. And so, we're often API hip, not only asked to write letters and supporter letters of opposition, but also to provide just, we don't do the full technical assistance but you know it's like, here's the issue how can we connect you right and we do these call outs to support each other as a community at you know understanding these differences and but where you know it's it's a practice of solidarity work that we do within our Asian American native Hawaiian Pacific Islander communities, and then across other minoritized and marginalized groups. And so, you know, and even within advocating, we often get asked, oh, can, you know, can we have a focus group on Asian Americans, right, and it's us pushing back and saying well you should have a group of focus group on Asian Americans and then another indigenous folks who are who identify as native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander right so, and not to bring us all you know to clump us all together say like have five representatives speak on the entire spectrum of experiences of Asian Americans and but rather for us to push back as Ted Paul mentioned in his talk of, you know, to hit to address issues of parody and equity to really push not just for a 5% allocation or 10% allocation but to really address issues of equity with greater percentages of allocation of funding and priorities. And so, I have three minutes. And is there's one more question folks may have, or else I'm going to share my screen on what you might call it. Sorry, I lost my screen. One question from Tom Cassidy highlighting regarding the Japanese American Memorial in Washington DC it's located at the base of the United States Capitol it's an incredible memorial if folks do get a chance to have some time to visit. While you're doing your if you have some downtime on your lobby day. It's right there on the Senate side so I encourage folks to visit. And with two minutes left, I wanted to one. You guys are the first ones to officially see our save the date for API hip. We've been hosting every two years are national historic preservation forum. You just, we often just refer to it as the forum because it's so long. The last one, fingers crossed our last one was 2020 in the end of January, right before coven and we had it in Honolulu. So for those who got to go we were really lucky to travel one last time. We are coming back, hopefully in person fingers crossed and we are hoping to see folks join us in lowel Massachusetts and you may be wondering where's lowel and why lowel lowels just outside of Boston so it's in the New England area. And we are looking at highlighting Southeast Asian history, particularly as the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the Khmer Rouge and other communist acts in Southeast Asia, and the resettlement of refugees from Southeast Asia into the United States. It's coming up. And so we wanted to, you know, the 50 year rule is coming up for them. And so we want to really support the wonderful work that's happening in lowel Massachusetts if you've not been. It's a very interesting kind of even built environment, the landscape of early American history with the junction position of a lot of Southeast Asian Asian signage. So we want to invite folks to come join us July 22 to July 24 in lowel Massachusetts. And because of COVID restrictions, of course, we are going to provide virtual opportunities for attendees, including hopefully people can jump on the virtual tours. And one last thing is a quick plug again for API hip. You can visit us on our website API hip.org. We're also on Facebook and we have a newsletter that comes out at least once a month, which includes calls for action so advocacy and upcoming events and grants and other kinds of opportunities. And if there's anything you would like to share you can email us, and we can hopefully put it onto our newsletters. So you can email it to us here with the information. And let me double check and I think we have hit exactly at time. I want to thank our speakers for sharing a little bit about the amazing advocacy work you do in preserving and telling our stories as Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders. I see so many of our good friends joining us today. And we'll see so many names. And so thank you. And we'll see you next year, hopefully at the forum and it has forward. Let us know anything that we can help you out with here at API hip and enjoy the rest of password everyone.