Poston, AZ 1942-46 Japanese internment camp

People with 1/16 or more of Japanese ancestry were imprisoned for 3 1/2 years because of American war hysteria. People were only allowed to take whatever they could carry, which included a bedroll. This camp is on a American Indian Reservation and the native Indians refused the initial government request to put the camp on their land...but the government ignored the Indians wishes that another people be forced from their land and home by the U.S.

This memorial was built by the descendants of the camp and unfortunately is probably the nicest part of Poston.