During WWII Americans of Japanese descent on the West Coast of the United States were forced into internment camps hastily built in remote inland areas of the West. Minidoka, also known as Hunt Camp, is located in scrubland about 25 miles north of Twin Falls. At its peak it housed over 9,000 Japanese Americans in tar paper barracks lacking running water. This is a room in the only original unremodeled barracks in any of the 10 relocation camps. Between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were subject to this mass exclusion program, of whom about 80,000 Nisei (second generation) and Sansei (third generation) were U.S. citizens.
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