Snow Country Memorial

07/17/2024

Please support the Snow Country Memorial Project at United Tribes Technical College—we have until August 10th to raise the remaining 17K for the individual tile etchings! Share the post too, if possible—thank you!

Honoring the resilience of Japanese Americans interned at Ft. Lincoln, ND in WWII and building solidarity across cultures & communities

02/26/2024

For an overview of the history at the Snow Country Memorial (”Fort Lincoln”), see the Densho Encyclopedia.

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Fort%20Lincoln%20(Bismarck)%20(detention%20facility)

02/07/2024

Here is a new interview with project team member Dr. Satsuki Ina, including more about the memorial courtyard in progress. Please share widely!

It’s an incredible honor for me to speak to Dr. Satsuki Ina. Ina is a Sansei activist, therapist, community healer, and now memoirist with The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment and Protest (Heyday, March 2024). The book is a family memoir using various archives and documents o...

01/18/2024

Welcome to our new followers! We’re glad you are here. Please share our page with anyone you think might be interested in this neglected but important part of Japanese American history.

Here is some background on the Fort Lincoln/Bismarck prison and the new courtyard being built, as written by team member Brian Niiya of Densho.

The Snow Country Prison Japanese American Internment memorial is a fascinating collaboration between Native Americans and Japanese Americans.

01/16/2024

Welcome to “Snow Country Prison Memorial,” a Japanese American page dedicated to 3 things:
1) raising awareness about the shared history of Japanese Americans interned at Fort Lincoln, North Dakota (also known as the Bismarck ”detention facility”) during World War II.
2) connecting descendants and relatives of the Issei men who were imprisoned at Fort Lincoln (now part of the United Tribes Technical College, or UTTC)
3) promoting the creation and construction of a memorial courtyard at the UTTC.

We’ll be introducing the team behind this page, giving historical context for the site, and providing exciting updates about the courtyard now in progress (2024).

https://uttc.edu/about-uttc/visit-our-campus/snow-country-prison-memorial-at-bismarck/