By Kevin Simpson The Colorado Sun (via AP Storyshare) GRANADA Mitch Homma stood on the weathered concrete slab that is all that remains of the barracks Descendants of the Amache relocation camp and Sand Creek massacre gather in Colorado to meet over their shared past
The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II is something many don’t know about. The descendants of those imprisoned at Amache are sharing their family stories and helping to shed light on this dark period in history.
It started with a teacher who saw an opportunity to do a living history project and wound up volunteering to keep up the site at Amache for 30 years. Today, historians, survivors, and archaeologists are fighting to preserve the history there.
It started with a teacher who saw an opportunity to do a living history project and wound up volunteering to keep up the site at Amache for 30 years. Today, historians, survivors, and archaeologists are fighting to preserve the history there.