The inaugural Japanese American community pilgrimage to Bismarck, N.D. on Friday, Sept. 5, will celebrate completion of the Snow Country Prison Japanese American Internment Memorial.

The memorial honors the history of Japanese Americans interned in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Fort Lincoln camp in Bismarck, who were demonized as “enemy aliens” during World War II.

The memorial is a project of one of the oldest Native American colleges, United Tribes Technical College (UTTC), and descendants of internees, and was designed by the social-justice architectural firm MASS Design Group. Members of the public and internee descendants are welcome to participate.

In the months after Pearl Harbor, the Alien Enemies Act was used to intern approximately 1,200 Issei immigrants at the Bismarck sit

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