Poston Relocation Center, Arizona

An internment camp in the Sonoran desert where over 17,000 people of Japanese ethnicity were imprisoned during World War Two. The facility consisted of three camps located on the grounds of the Colorado River Indian Reservation. The forced labor supplied by the Japanese inmates was used to expand and improve the reservation's infrastructure so that additional Indian tribes could be housed there after the war. One of ten such relocation camps in the country that imprisoned over 100,000 people of Japanese heritage during the war.