Keeper of the Concentration Camps

Analyzing the career of Dillon S. Myer, Director of the War Relocation Authority during WWII and Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs from 1950-53, Richard Drinnon shows that the pattern for the Japanese internment was set a century earlier by the removal, confinement, and scattering of Native Americans.

Richard Drinnon is the author of Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building (1980) and is Professor Emeritus of History at Bucknell University.