Tule Lake Committee

02/20/2026

Gratitude. Joy. Love for the beloved community. We are stunned by this year’s response to our first ever online registration for the 2026 Tule Lake Pilgrimage. After only a couple hours, our registration system reached capacity and we are now closed. There is currently a long standby list, with no guarantees for entrance. We are sorry to turn people away, but this helps to maintain a safe and healthy environment for all. Thank you, everyone for your support, interest and care. Watch our website, IG and FB as we prepare for this year’s pilgrimage, completely run by a multigenerational team of dedicated volunteers. Find out more about the Tule Lake Pilgrimage and the Tuke Lake Committee and how you can get involved at the links in our bio!

02/19/2026

On this Day of Remembrance, Hiroshi Shimizu, Tule Lake Committee Board Chair, urges us, "Now is the time to make your voices heard. Now is the time for solidarity."

Register TODAY for the 2026 Tule Lake Pilgrimage, "Resistance and Solidarity."

02/18/2026

Get ready! registration will be online on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026 at 9am Pacific Time! Link in bio. Pilgrimage is July 3-6, 2026. $700 Registration includes bus transportation to Klamath Falls, OR from various cities, air-conditioned dorm room lodging, meals and all programming. You’ll find a welcome gathering, plenary sessions, educational programs, activities, healing circles, memorial service, evening cultural program and an unforgettable lifetime experience. The Ireicho Project will also be with us. Connect with community at the Tule Lake Pilgrimage. Financial assistance of $400 grants are available. Details are in the online registration form. We hope to see you there!

10/21/2025

Congratulations to the crystalcitypilgrimage held Oct. 9-12 of this year for the incredible community building in Crystal City, TX and telling the intertwined histories of Japanese/Nikkei Latin Americans, Japanese Americans, Germans and Italians as well as the opening of “My Story Museum, which features the camp exhibit titled America’s Last WWII Concentration Camp, in addition to exhibits on the Chicano Movement in Zavala County, 1969 Crystal City student walkouts, and stories of local veterans.” Neighbors Not Enemies!

10/16/2025

Crystal City Pilgrimage - memorializing a WWII Department of Justice internment camp facility in Texas on October 9-12, 2025. This year’s theme was “Crystal City Rising - Neighbors Not Enemies” which was fully realized through multilingual exhibits, educational sessions, shared meals, site visits and more! Congratulations to the planning committee and all of the volunteers who made this international event happen so that we can make better decisions today. No more concentration camps!

09/07/2025

Hey students! Here’s a great scholarship opportunity!

It’s time!
Deadline September 15
For more information
Rules below
Contact: [email protected]

09/06/2025

In a display of true solidarity, opening the inaugural Pilgrimage at the Snow Country Prison (WWII DOJ prison) Memorial in Bismarck, North Dakota, host Leander R. McDonald (Dakota/Sahnish/Hidatsa/Hunkpapa Nations) president of the United Tribes Technical College (UTTC) honored descendants of Japanese American internees on Friday. September 5. Tule Lake Committee Members, Dr. Satsuki Ina and Barbara Takei were amongst the honorees and Stan Shikuma performed taiko for the ceremony. Some 1,200 Issei Japanese Americans were incarcerated there and 750 who renounced their citizenship were from Tule Lake before they were readied to be deported. The memorial was a collaborative project commissioned by UTTC and managed by the award-winning social-justice architectural firm MASS Design Group.

08/27/2025

The Snow Country Prison Pilgrimage and Memorial dedication in Bismarck, N.D. will be held on Friday, September 5, 2025 at 1 pm and will be centering solidarity across communities. It will also coincide with the annual UTTC Pow Wow.

The war has ended

but I’m still in

The snow country prison

— Itaru Ina, prisoner at Bismarck, ca. 1945

To RSVP or request more information, email [email protected].

United Tribes Technical College on Sept. 5 will hold a dedication ceremony for a new monument honoring the memory of Japanese Americans who were imprisoned there during World War II.