HISTORICAL
Sharing a Desert Home: Life on the
Colorado River Indian Reservation,
by Ruth Y. Okimoto. Heyday Books (2001) ASIN: B0006RV18M. Ruth
Okimoto, PhD, former Poston 3 internee, received a grant from the
California Civil Liberties Public Education Program (C.C.L.P.E.P.) and with her
research, uncovered documents at the U. S. National Archives on the formation of the "Colorado River Relocation Center" as it was called by the U.S. government, and the relationship between the
Office of Indian Affairs and the War Relocation Authority (W.R.A.). This manuscript
initiated the beginnings for the development of the award-winning documentary
film, "Passing Poston". A MUST READ! Available from Poston Community Alliance. For more information, email: diannerd79(at)yahoo(dot)com
Imprisoned in the Desert: The Geography of World War II-Era, Japanese American Relocation Centers in the Western United States, by Dr. Karl Lillquist. See "Chapter 9. Poston". Detailed information of numerous facts and statistics. Excellent resource and includes maps. Available for free download at: http://www.cwu.edu/~geograph/faculty/lillquist/pubs/ja_relocation/chapter9poston.pdf
Imprisoned in the Desert: The Geography of World War II-Era, Japanese American Relocation Centers in the Western United States, by Dr. Karl Lillquist. See "Chapter 9. Poston". Detailed information of numerous facts and statistics. Excellent resource and includes maps. Available for free download at: http://www.cwu.edu/~geograph/faculty/lillquist/pubs/ja_relocation/chapter9poston.pdf
Confinement and
Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites, by Jeffery F. Burton, Mary M. Farrell,
Florence B. Lord, and Richard W. Lord. University of Washington Press; 1st
edition (Aug. 2002) # ISBN-10: 0295981563 # ISBN-13: 978-0295981567. See chapter on "Poston". Available on-line at: http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/anthropology74/
SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES
The Governing of Men: General Principles &
Recommendation Based on Experience at a Japanese Relocation Camp, by Alexander
H. Leighton. Princeton University Press, 1945. Lt. Commander Alexander
Leighton, anthropologist, was head of the War Relocation Authority's
Sociological Research Bureau at the Poston, Arizona concentration camp. This book was one
of the first monographs published on the Japanese American wartime experience
and describes the attempts at community planning in Poston and human
behavior studies during the Poston strike.
Inside An American Concentration Camp: Japanese American
Resistance at Poston, Arizona.
by Richard S. Nishimoto, edited by Lane Ryo Hirabayashi. University of Arizona
Press (Aug.1995) ISBN-10:0816514208, ISBN-13:978-081651420. This is a written account by a
former Poston, Arizona concentration camp internee, selected to participate in working
"undercover" as a staff member of the Japanese American
Evacuation and Resettlement Study. At times, it appeared that he was
reporting information for internal intelligence. The study was a University of
California, Berkeley-sponsored, systematic attempt to document life inside the
concentration camp.
MAPS OF THE CAMPS
MAPS OF THE CAMPS
Note: The original blue prints are very large. The scans we present are BEST viewed on a large wide-screen monitor.
(Click on the link to view the map.)
(Click on the link to view the map.)
Camp 1 Location of barracks
Camp 2 Location of barracks
Camp 3 Location of barracks
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