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. Read more »

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.” Read more »

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

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

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. Read more »

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. Read more »