A powerful, important piece of history... In Idaho, researchers have uncovered the near-forgotten site of an internment camp where the United States government first used people of Japanese ancestry as a workforce during World War II: Kooskia Internment Camp Discovered In Mountains Of Idaho.
In the remote mountains of northern Idaho, archaeological work has been underway to uncover artifacts from the long buried, little-known history of the Kooskia Internment Camp, which operated from 1943 to the end of the war and held more than 250 detainees:
