Inez Puckett McEwen, 1899-1987, was born in Oyens, Iowa. She attended school in California, attending USC, Pomona, and Scripps, and earning a B.A. in dramatics. In 1943 McEwen moved to a ranch in Idaho with her husband and it was there that she wrote the popularly acclaimed book, So This Is Ranching.
Executive Order 9066
In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which resulted in the incarceration from 1942 to 1946 of approximately 120,000 adults and children of Japanese ancestry, many of whom were United States citizens. They were expelled from their homes and placed in incarceration camps without due process and in violation of their civil rights. These camps were euphemistically referred to as “relocation centers” or “internment camps”. After decades of advocacy by the Japanese American community, in 1988 the United States issued a formal apology and began redress to survivors of Japanese incarceration during World War II.
This collection includes four documents related to Japanese American incarceration during World War II: typescript (mimeograph), "Address by Lt. Ray McDaniels at Heart Mountain; typescript (mimeograph), "Questions and Answers," about Japanese American recruitment into the United States armed forces; typescript (carbon) of a letter addressed to the Editors of the Heart Mountain (Wyo.) Sentinel regarding draft status of prisoners; printed form "War Relocation Authority Application for Leave Clearance."
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Inez Puckett McEwen Collection on Japanese-American Incarceration, 1942-1943 (Cage 4923)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Gift; Inez Pucket McEwen; 1995; MS 1997-48.
In 2021, in response to evolving societal understanding regarding the language used to describe the impact of Executive Order 9066, this finding aid was revised to more accurately provide context to the mass incarceration of people of Japanese ancestry during World War II.
George and Frank C. Hirahara Photograph Collection of Heart Mountain, Wyoming, 1932-2016
Tom T. Hide Collection, 1925-2012
Okubara Family Collection, circa 1943-2008
Takeda Family Collection, 1938-circa 2012
Kenneth Nishiyori Collection, 1942-1944
George and Doris McIntyre Papers, 1944-1945
Mari Tsuruyama Okumura Collection, 1936-2014
Patti Hirahara Collection, 1955-2020
Terry Ishihara Collection, 1989-2012
Mike Mackey Collection, 1940-2002
Heart Mountain High School
Fusataro Nakaya Photographs, circa 1944
Nabata Family Collection of Heart Mountain Photographs, circa 1942-1945
Frank Chin Oral History Collection, 1974-1986
Japanese American Redress Collection, 1976-2000
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