Historic Japanese Sites of Southwestern Wyoming Revised and Revisited: Japanese Rock Art and Tombstones: Immigration Patterns on the Northern Plains and in the Rocky Mountains
Author(s): A. Dudley Gardner; David E. Johnson
Year: 2001
Summary
Between 1891 and 1899 Japanese immigrants began to arrive in Alberta, Montana, and Wyoming. Little is provided in the historic documentation about where these immigrants came from in Japan. The archaeological record, however, provides reliable information about the origins of these "sojourners." Using Japanese tombstones, rock art, and inscriptions on stone we have been able to piece together where the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century Japanese immigrants came from within Japan. In addition, we have also learned more about the nature of Japanese women's immigration into the interior west at the tum of the century. Based on the archaeological data, this paper will summarize what our investigations in Alberta, Montana, and Wyoming have uncovered during the last ten years.
Cite this Record
Historic Japanese Sites of Southwestern Wyoming Revised and Revisited: Japanese Rock Art and Tombstones: Immigration Patterns on the Northern Plains and in the Rocky Mountains. A. Dudley Gardner, David E. Johnson. The Wyoming Archaeologist. 45 (2): 29-38. 2001 ( tDAR id: 476394) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8476394
Keywords
Site Name
Diamondville cemetery
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Hanna cemetery
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Superior cemetery
General
buddhist
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Hanna
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Immigration
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Inscription
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Japanese
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Raymond, Alberta
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Rock Art
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Rock Springs
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Superior
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Tombstone
Geographic Keywords
Southwest Wyoming
Temporal Keywords
Historic
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Marcia Peterson
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