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Summary Of Coyote And The Enemy Aliens By Thomas King

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Japanese Canadians have been a part of Canada since the early years of Canada’s development in the 1870s. After the bombing occurred in Pearl Harbour, “the fear of a Japanese invasion quickly spread throughout the west of Canada” (The Canadian Encyclopedia), and this resulted to the internment of Japanese Canadians. The callous mindset of the government lead to Japanese Canadians being forced out of their homes, sent into internment camps where they were kept in livestock barns while all their possessions have been either auctioned off or kept by the RCMP, and some were laboured into working in a farm with no pay to “prove their loyalty” (King, 75). Thomas King’s “Coyote and the Enemy Aliens”, looks into this aspect of the dark past in Canadian history and how the government reacted towards the …show more content…

The similarities of how the Japanese Canadians were treated during this period in time and how the natives were dealt with in the early stages of Canada, well before Canada became a country, show how primitive the government reacted to facing problems during the Second World War and how they went about in solving the issues. Throughout “Coyote and the Enemy Aliens”, Thomas King describes to the reader the methods used towards the Japanese Canadians. At first, they started to refer to the Japanese Canadians as “Enemy Aliens”, as if they were some kind of extra-terrestrial being that came from a place outside of Earth, but in reality they were equally as human as everyone else. The RCMP at this time were impounding fishing boats and shut down Japanese newspapers and schools (The Canadian Encyclopedia), similarly how the coyote was doing his job of “Custodian of Enemy Alien Property”, the “RCMP also confiscated all their belongings and were either auctioned off or kept by the RCMP while the proceeds went onto paying storage fees, handling fees, and a small

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