Note: The internment camp at what is now known as the Minidoka National Historic Site operated from 1942 to 1945. It was one of ten internment camps created under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s executive order to protect America “against espionage and against sabotage to national-defense” systems. At its peak, Minidoka held nearly 9,400 Japanese Americans (both citizens and resident “aliens”) who lived, worked, and raised their families on the west coast. Learn more at the National Park Service website.
Photos taken by Barbara A.M. Howard during a summer board meeting of the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers in Idaho, 2013. All rights reserved.
January 31, 2017 at 12:02 pm
Barabara,
Have you read ISU Emeritus Professor of English Neil Nakadate’s book Looking After Minidoka? Check it out: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0253011027/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485885600&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=neil+nakadate&dpPl=1&dpID=517pj00lJCL&ref=plSrch
January 31, 2017 at 1:12 pm
Thanks for the comment, Gloria! I haven’t read it yet, but the book was mentioned when we were there in 2013. I’ll be sure to add it to my reading list. Minidoka certainly made an impression on me when we were there (and that was with park rangers telling the story). I’m sure the memoir would be all the more poignant.