U.S. History

Minidoka: An American Concentration Camp

by Teresa Tamura

On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing Armed Forces to remove citizens and noncitizens from “military areas.” The result was the dislocation and imprisonment of 120,000 Japanese American citizens in the U.S. In Minidoka: An American Concentration Camp, Teresa Tamura documents one such camp, the Minidoka War Relocation Center in Jerome County, Idaho. Her documentation includes artifacts made in the camp as well as the story of its survivors and illuminates the historical and social significance of Minidoka.

Updated/revised edition 240 Pages, Hardcover, 9x11 180 photos, maps ISBN# 978-0-87004-573-8 $27.95

Imprisoned in Paradise: Japanese Internee Road Workers at the World War II Kooskia Internment Camp by Priscilla Wegars Exposes the United States’ little-known World War II rendition of Japanese Latin Americans, including men kidnapped from their homes in Peru, Panama, and Mexico and interned at the Kooskia Camp in Idaho. Unlike Japanese Americans who have received an official apology and redress from the U.S. government, the Japanese Latin Americans are still waiting for justice.

324 Pages, Softcover, 6x9 ISBN# 978-0-89301-550-3 $19.95

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the Terrain CCC “Boys,” Federal Convicts, and World War II Alien Internees Wrestle with a Mountain Wilderness by Priscilla Wegars This book explores some intriguing history of Idaho’s wild Lochsa River. In 1893 this site was a footnote in the saga of the ill-fated Carlin hunting party. Later the site housed Civilian Conservation Corps recruits, became a Federal Prison Camp and laboring Japanese detainees continued road construction.

394 Pages, Softcover, photos, maps, illustrations, index ISBN# 978-0-87004-540-0 $21.95

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