Title:
Minidoka Irrigator
Creator:
United States. War Relocation Authority.
Subject:
Minidoka Relocation Center (Hunt, Idaho)
Concentration Camps -- United States -- Newspapers
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans -- Newspapers
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Description:
This 10 page representative issue of the Minidoka Irrigator dated November 7, 1942, includes articles such as "Relocation
Faces Barriers," "Post Halloween Pranks Reported," and "Irrigator Mascot Christened." Of special note is the Editorial entitled
"More Socials Needed," which posits that it is important to bring together Nisei and Caucasians in order to encourage Americanization.
It also includes a one-page section in Japanese. The Irrigator was published weekly at the Minidoka Relocation Center in
Idaho and was "devoted to the interests of the residents of the Minidoka WRA center, published by the Minidoka Consumer's
Cooperative." In addition to local and national news, it included a sports section, classified ads and a section in Japanese.
Publisher:
Los Angeles : Occidental College Library, 2005
Date:
Vol. 1, no. 1 (Sept. 10, 1942)-Vol. 5, no. 22 (July 28, 1945)
2005-12-08
Type:
text
Identifier:
549_kt638nc9ww
scjarminir
Source:
Occidental College Library
Language:
eng; ja
Relation:
Special Collections. Japanese American Relocation (scjar)
Rights:
Property and literary rights reside with the Occidental College Library. For permission to reproduce or publish, please contact
Special Collections.
Minidoka Irrigator