Portland museum presents Minidoka art, brings healing to generations of Japanese Americans

Portland museum presents Minidoka art, brings healing to generations of Japanese Americans

Franklin Ouchida fondly remembers spending time as a young boy at his loving grandfather’s house in Gresham, Oregon. On a shelf, not prominently displayed, sat a red wooden rooster. He was curious about how it was made, but his grandfather never spoke about it.As Ouchida grew into adulthood, he finally uncovered the rooster’s past. It was one of the many art pieces his grandfather, Shigeta Ouchida, created from greasewood he collected by slippin…