Many Mountains Surrounding .::. Map and Satellite Photo of the Santa Fe Internment Camp Historical Marker

Poetry Group, Santa Fe Internment Camp Courtesy of Reiko Matsumoto.

Welcome to ManyMountains.org! Our name is derived from the kanji the issei prisoners invented for the town of Santa Fe, New Mexico. They called their new home, San Ta He, or Many Mountains Surrounding.

Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the FBI arrested and imprisoned thousands of immigrants. Japanese, German and Italian immigrants were branded "dangerous enemy aliens" and confined in military and INS prisons without trial. No charges were brought and no evidence was produced by the US Justice Department. Some men were held until 1947.

Click the buttons at left for reproductions of a poetry manuscript from the Santa Fe Internment Camp historic photos of the issei detainees and their families, oral histories, and more information about the Justice Camps.

Read about the April 2002 Santa Fe Historical Marker Dedication and visit MinamiPictures.com to see what former Justice Camps at Lordsburg and Santa Fe look like today. Having problems locating the Santa Fe Camp Historical Marker? Here is a map!

Learn how to use the Freedom of Information Act to request copies of previously classified FBI files stored at the National Archives.

Today, the Justice Department continues its assault on the innocent. Under the guise of the "War on Terrorism," and in reaction to the 9/11 attacks, the INS has been conducting clandestine deportations of Muslims living in the U.S. Listen to Amy Goodman's interview with the wife of one detainee. For many of you, the account of her husband's arrest will sound all too familiar.

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