Word: minidoka
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...alien,” Fujimoto recalls. “They were given a week’s notice to leave everything behind, and were sent off to live in horse stables for a year at a racetrack in Seattle. After that, they were imprisoned for two years at the Minidoka concentration camp in Idaho. They weren’t even allowed to attend my graduation...
Fujimoto’s parents were finally allowed to leave Minidoka concentration camp and travel east to Chicago, where they remained for the rest of their lives. Fujimoto, meanwhile, went onto graduate school in chemistry at University of Michigan—an all-expenses fellowship...
...Navajo beet worker, Kee Chee, did not do as he was told . . . He was told both by myself, the superintendent of the hospital, and the representative of the Amalgamated Sugar Co. which employed him, to leave the infant in the hospital. Moreover, Amalgamated and Minidoka County were paying and were willing to go on paying the infant's medical expenses. Notwithstanding this, Kee Chee and his wife insisted on taking the baby out of the hospital, and on their own responsibility, left with it on the chartered bus for their home in New Mexico . . . The Chees' reason...
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