JACL Idaho Falls Chapter

11/09/2025

The Intermountain District Council meeting 11/8/2025.

06/13/2025

In response to the recent use of an anti-Japanese slur by Wyoming State Rep. John Winter in reference to the Heart Mountain incarceration camp, please see our statement on the racist history of the term and the power that words hold.

Full statement: https://jacl.org/statements/jacl-responds-to-recent-use-of-anti-japanese-slur

05/23/2025

It's Opening Day!

The Minidoka National Historic Site Visitor Center is now open Fridays-Sundays, from 10 am to 5 pm, through Labor Day. Ranger-guided tours start at 11 am every Saturday and Sunday. ⁠

For more information, visit nps.gov/miin.

05/14/2025

Please join Friends of Minidoka and Minidoka National Historic Site for a special clean up day this Saturday, May 17! We'll be helping our National Park staff prepare the site for its official opening for the summer season.

What: Clean up of the Visitor Center, interpretive signs, and baseball field
Date: Saturday, May 17, 2025
Time: 9:45 am - 12 pm
Location: Minidoka National Historic Site, 1428 Hunt Road
Jerome, ID 83338

Refreshments and lunch provided. The Visitor Center will be open for viewing until 1 pm.

We need 8 more volunteers! Sign up at minidoka.org/events.

05/13/2025

Tomorrow, we are excited to join the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans (NCAPA) and fellow coalition members for a briefing on the launch of NCAPA's new report, Shifting Policies, Lasting Impacts: A 100-Day Review of the Trump Administration’s Impact on AANHPI Communities. Join us this Wednesday at 12:30PM PT/3:30 PM ET to hear insights from community leaders on the report. This conversation is a crucial opportunity to reflect, learn, and strengthen our collective response moving forward.

Register at bit.ly/AAPI100Days

05/11/2025

Happy birthday to , whose courage led to the ruling that ended the incarceration of Japanese Americans during . A quiet hero for justice.

04/30/2025

How do Idaho Gives donations support Friends of Minidoka?

Our mission is to preserve, protect, and educate about the lessons and legacy of the unconstitutional incarceration of Japanese Americans at Minidoka during WWII. To connect educators with key resources that teach the full and complex story of incarceration, Friends of Minidoka hosts teacher training events. These sessions are enriching and collaborative experiences, during which educators experience the Minidoka National Historic Site firsthand and meet National Park Service staff.

If you give $200, your donation will fund registration fees for a teacher attending a Friends of Minidoka teacher training session.

We hope you’ll consider giving to help us support educators in their critical work. Click the Idaho Gives link to donate!

https://www.idahogives.org/organizations/friends-of-minidoka

04/29/2025