Mission US: Prisoner in My Homeland

Experience U.S. history through the eyes of peers from the past with Mission US, WNET's free, award-winning interactive gaming series designed for tweens and teens. “Prisoner in My Homeland” follows the experiences of teenager Henry Tanaka, whose family is forced to leave their home on Bainbridge Island, WA, for a prison camp in Manzanar, CA. Players grapple with the choices and challenges faced by more than 120,000 Japanese Americans as they coped with their unjust incarceration during World War II.

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