Minidoka National Historic Site

By that time, when she was, you know, later in years, she talked about camp a lot.

She spoke the Minidoka pilgrimage and she was, you know, she would go to schools and speak.

But when I was growing up, nothing, right? Everything, they would make references like, oh, that was before camp.

No, no, that was after camp.

It's part of your little world.

But one of the documents I found in her papers was a thing called Helpful Hints for a Successful Relocation.

And it was a document, a government paper, flyer kind of thing, that was given to her when she left Minidoka and was allowed to go back to Cincinnati to work as a housekeeper.

It was given with the best of intentions, you know, to help JAs adjust out in America.