For Teachers

Children singing at Tule Lake
Tule Lake Unit is a new park as of December 2008. Because it is new, the park is currently starting the process of creating teacher materials. In the meantime, we encourage you to look at these resources for information about the overall Japanese Internment during World War II.
Manzanar Historic Site>
Densho.org>
 

In the Suggested Readings area, there are a series of articles to help understand how language has been used to represent, or misrepresent, the wartime experience of Japanese Americans. View the list>

Did You Know?

Tules or bulruhes

When the Spanish colonized Mexico and Central America, they borrowed from the native inhabitants the Nahuatl word tollin for a bulrush. The English-speaking settlers of the West in turn borrowed the Spanish word tule to refer to certain varieties of bulrushes native to California.