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4 unusual facts about Minidoka National Historic Site


George I. Fujimoto

During his studies at Harvard his family was imprisoned in an American internment camp Minidoka in Idaho.

Minidoka National Historic Site

Roger Shimomura (born 1939), an American artist and a retired professor.

On May 8, 2008, President George W. Bush signed the Wild Sky Wilderness Act into law, which changed the status of the former U.S. National Monument to National Historic Site and added the Nidoto Nai Yoni (Let It Not Happen Again) Memorial on Bainbridge Island, Washington to the monument.

Sharon Maeda

Her parents and grandparents, Japanese Americans, were interned in Minidoka internment camp during World War II.



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