BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - A new memorial on the campus of United Tribes Technical College honors the history and resilience of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated there during WWII.

During WWII, the campus of UTTC was called Fort Lincoln and “The Snow Country Prison.”

Japanese Americans were incarcerated after President Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order in February 1942 that authorized the forced removal of anyone considered a threat to national security. Those people were sent to internment camps like Fort Lincoln.

From May 1943 to March 1946, more than 4,000 Germans and Japanese men were held at Fort Lincoln.

Many of them were from the West Coast, and several of their family members made the trip to be a part of Friday’s ceremony.

There was one Japanese American living

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