Tule Lake War Relocation Center
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Tule Lake Segregation Center National Monument was an internment
Internment
Internment is the imprisonment or confinement of people, commonly in large groups, without trial. The Oxford English Dictionary gives the meaning as: "The action of 'interning'; confinement within the limits of a country or place." Most modern usage is about individuals, and there is a distinction...

 camp in the northern California
California
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 town of Newell
Newell, California
Newell is a census-designated place in Modoc County, California in the United States. It is located west-northwest of Alturas, at an elevation of 4,042 feet . The population was 449 at the 2010 census....

 near Tule Lake
Tule Lake
Tule Lake is an intermittent lake covering an area of , long and across, in northeastern Siskiyou County and northwestern Modoc County in California, along the border with Oregon.-Geography:Tule Lake is fed by the Lost River...

. It was used in the Japanese American internment
Japanese American internment
Japanese-American internment was the relocation and internment by the United States government in 1942 of approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese who lived along the Pacific coast of the United States to camps called "War Relocation Camps," in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on...

 during World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

. It was the largest (in terms of population) and most controversial of the camps, and did not close until after the war, in 1946. In December 2008 it was designated by President George W. Bush
George W. Bush
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 as one of nine sites—the only one in the contiguous 48 states—to be part of the new World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument
World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument
The World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument is a United States national monument honoring several aspects of American engagement in World War II. It encompasses 9 sites in 3 states totaling :* - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...

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Among the Japanese Americans interned at Tule Lake were internees from other camps who refused to take a vow of undivided loyalty to the U.S.
 
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