Title: From Okinawa to the Americas
Description: First-hand account of the life of a female Okinawan immigrant in the New World. It spans nearly a centure from Hana Kaneshi's early life in a small viallage to a sugar plantation in Peru and its capital, Lima; to her dangerous trek through Mexico and the California desert to enter the U.S. and start a new life, this time in the Imperial Valley.
Subjects: Ryukyuans, Biography, California, biography, Peru, biography, Japan, biography, Ethnology, japan
Places: Okinawa-shi (Japan), California, Peru
People: Hana Yamagawa (1894-1995)