Japanese American, WWII, Wyoming, Agriculture, Gardening (Other Keyword)
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Mono no Aware: Challenges of Impermanence in the Archaeological Record of a WWII Japanese American Concentration Camp (2018)
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From 1942 to 1945, the third largest city in the state of Wyoming was the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, one of ten camps where Japanese immigrants and their Japanese American descendants had been forcibly relocated from their homes along the West Coast for the duration of World War II. During their residence, the incarcerees did everything they could to make the camps their home, establishing gardens and fields, building swimming pools and root cellars, and otherwise trying to make life...