Minidoka

Dec. 7, 1941: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

February 1942: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, sending nearly 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans into 10 relocation centers in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming.

June 1942: The Morrison-Knudsen Co. begins building the Minidoka camp. The camp is also called "Hunt," after the nearest post office.

August 1942: The 33,000-acre Minidoka camp opens and will house more than 9,000 internees.

Ten weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and amid widespread anti-Japanese hysteria, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, providing the legal basis for the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans at ten War Relocation Authority “Relocation Centers.”

Big Sky voted down 2-1, case likely headed to court

By Matt Christensen - Times-News
Edition Date: 10/10/07

Proposed site is a mile from Minidoka camp where Japanese were held

By Anna Webb - The Idaho Statesman
Edition Date: 10/02/07

When Japan attacked the United States in 1941, Gus Tanaka was 19, a student at Reed College in Portland, the son of an American-born doctor.

"The FBI was ringing our doorbell four hours after Pearl Harbor," he said.

A proposed feedlot near the Minidoka national monument meets all state and federal standards, an attorney says.

By Anna Webb, Idaho Statesman
Edition Date: 09/28/07

Karen Yoshitomi and Janeil Stewart both brought family photographs to the Jerome County Courthouse Tuesday.

They were there to testify against a proposal by Big Sky Farms of Eden to build a 13,000-cow feedlot a mile from the Minidoka Internment National Monument.

Case likely headed to court no matter county's ruling

By Matt Christensen - Times-News Writer
Edition Date: 09/26/07

Hearing for controversial feedlot features emotional testimony

By Matt Christensen - Times-News Writer
Edition Date: 09/25/07