francisco, the chinese council from new york a translator and two army officers meeting in rock springs wyoming, trying to protect the chinese immigrants, trying to restore order. and so, the armies placed in all sorts of difficult balancing act. sometimes it does pretty well. sometimes it humbles the job unfortunately. over 200 indian men, women and children are slaughtered. now there were about 30 army soldiers killed as well. it's one of those tragedies that didn't need to happen and just a horrible example of things gone wrong and the slaughter of hundreds of noncombatants. i guess i would argue that although the last major indian conflict ends in 1890 that the army continued to see the west of fundamental importance to its mission really until the spanish-american war that we know what the event of hindsight that there are no major conflicts of indians after 1890. but army officers at the time were talking about the possibility of those conflicts is that the army is heavily involved in the west really up until the spanish-american war come no one ironically quickly finds itself in a somewh

spring and summer of 1942. the place, 10 different relocation centers in unsettled parks of california, arizona utah idaho, wyomingcolorado, and arkansas. the relocation centers are supervised by the war relocation authority, which assumed responsibility for the people after they had been evacuated and cared for temporarily by the army. the relocation centers housing 18,000 people, derek's type buildings divided into compartments. 12 or 14 resident buildings to a block. each block provided with a mess hall, bathhouse, larger building, and recreation hall. about 300 people to a block. the entire community founded by a wire fence and guarded by military police, symbols of the military nature of the evacuation. each family upon revival -- arrival was assigned to a single room compartment, about 20 by 25 feet. barren unattractive. a stove, a light bulb, cots, mattresses, and blankets. those were the things provided by the government. the family's own furniture was in storage on the west coast. scrap lumber, perhaps some wall boards, and a great deal of energy, curtains pictures depending on the family's own ingenuity,