A new crown jewel was added to the National Park System when President Joe Biden signed the Amache National Historic Site Act into law on March 18. Amache, also known as the Granada Relocation Center, is a World War II internment camp for Japanese Americans located near Granada, Colorado. Under the new law, the National Park System will “preserve, protect, and interpret for the benefit of present and future generations resources associated with the incarceration of civilians of Japanese ancestry during World War II at Amache.”
Professor Bonnie Clark from the Department of Anthropology has operated a University of Denver archaeology and collections field school at Amache since 2008. She talks about Amache’s new National Historic Site designation in this interview with the DU Newsroom.
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This year’s One Valley One Book title and program invites community members to take another look at a critical piece of Colorado and American history that is often overlooked.
This week marks 80 years since the forced incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans at internment camps across the U.S. during World War II.