Nikkei Farmer on the Nebraska Plains: A Memoir (Plains Histories)

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Japanese-born Hisanori Kano came to the US in 1916 with the blessings of his influential circle of relatives, the sponsorship of William Jennings Bryan, and a fervent commitment to master and apply the most efficient of American agricultural practices at the Nebraska Plains. Forgoing an assured career in politics, the military, or business in his fatherland, Kano entered the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and worked his way through as a farm laborer. At the side of his dedication to farming, he brought a strong Christian faith that would lead to his ordination as an Episcopal minister and sustain him and his circle of relatives through his internment all through World War II. Undertaken in 1967, after half a century in his adoptive land, Father Kano’s memoir reveals how he adapted to an ever-changing American culture and landscape. According himself only modest standing a few of the Issei—other first-generation Japanese immigrants he was once honored to call his countrymen—Father Kano elucidates in a voice as eloquent as it’s polite a sorely underrepresented aspect of diversity and rural life at the North American Plains.
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