• View through the barbed wire from inside the camp looking east.

    Minidoka

    National Historic Site ID,WA

Curriculum Materials

Teachers attend curriculum workshop.
Minidoka National Historic Site teamed up with CSI and Densho at the Southern Idaho Civil Liberties Symposium to unveil the newly developed Minidoka curriculum.
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Minidoka National Historic Site teamed up with Densho, the Japanese American Legacy Project, to develop a curriculum aimed at helping teachers to learn about and teach about this difficult subject matter. It is also geared to help connect current events to the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans.

The units are designed to closely align with Idaho and Washington state standards in social studies and language arts, specifically in geography, U.S. history, and writing.

Did You Know?

Hunt Post Office

The Relocation Center was nicknamed “Hunt Camp” after the Hunt, Idaho post office where internees received their mail. The camp is still known locally by that name.