This chapter discusses the resistance of the inmates to the centers and their cooperation with them. Historians have often crafted a literature of resistance, but cooperation was far and away the usual response of the residents to the WRA. The centers simply could not have been operated without the cooperation of the vast majority of the evacuees. A small minority resisted the WRA, but many of these were physically or emotionally coerced by a militant minority. Most Nikkei accepted their situation in the camps because they could not do anything about it. But they did not deny their ties to either the United States or the Japanese mother country. They embraced the one and tried to explain the other to Americans. But despite their overall cooperation, perhaps as many as 7,000 of the 112,000 Japanese evacuees were hostile to the WRA, and their hostility resulted in riots at Manzanar, Tule Lake, and Poston. These upheavals of the pro-Imperial Japanese resulted in the separation of the pro- and anti-American groups. The disorders caused by the militant minorities did not improve Nikkei conditions, they only provided cannon fodder for anti-Nikkei politicians outside the camps and pro-Japanese politicians inside them.