Japanese Americans were jailed in a desert. Survivors worry a wind farm will overshadow the past.

By ED KOMENDA and LINDSEY WASSON
Associated Press

JEROME, Idaho (AP) — In the vast, high desert of southern Idaho is a place called Minidoka. After Japan’s Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, this is where the U.S. government incarcerated over 13,000 Japanese American men, women and children as security risks because of their ancestry. Eight decades later, another government decision looms as a new threat — a wind project pilgrims with ties to the site worry will destroy the experience they want to preserve. If approved, the wind farm would put up 400 turbines near Minidoka, and survivors say it’s another attempt to bury the past.