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As new bipartisan legislation prepares to designate Camp Amache as a national historic site, Amache survivors who spent three years in the internment camp are weighing in on the push to preserve it.

American interment: Survivor shares memories of Camp Amache as fight begins to preserve historic site KMGH photojournalist Dominick Lee and last updated 2021-05-30 09:01:03-04 GRENADA, Colo. — As new bipartisan legislation prepares to designate Camp Amache as a national historic site, Amache survivors who spent three years in the internment camp are weighing in on the push to preserve it. In 1942, Americans of Japanese descent were forced from their homes and into 10 internment camps thr...

Japanese Americans carry trauma from WWII internment camp JUSTIN WINGERTER, The Denver Post May 23, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail GRANADA, Colo. (AP) — Fifteen miles from the Kansas border, Prowers County Road 23½ comes to a dusty end, surrounded by sagebrush and prickly pear cacti and dead junipers. A place this newspaper called, eight decades ago, “as bleak a spot as one can find on the western plains.” In one of the more shameful moments in American history, the federal government remove...

By JUSTIN WINGERTER | The Denver Post | Published: May 20, 2021 GRANADA, Colo. (Tribune News Service) — Fifteen miles from the Kansas border, Prowers County Road 23 1/2 comes to a dusty end, surrounded by sagebrush and prickly pear cacti and dead junipers. A place The Denver Post called, eight decades ago, "as bleak a spot as one can find on the western plains." In one of the more shameful moments in American history, the federal government removed 120,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese na...

4 Congressmen Join Colorado Teacher And Students To Make Camp Amache, A Japanese Internment Camp, A National Historic Site CBS Denver 2 hrs ago Syndicated Local – CBS Denver GRANADA, Colo. (CBS4) – More than 70 years after an internment camp in Colorado for Japanese people closed, it could become a national historic site and part of the National Park System. On a lonely dirt road east of Lamar, amid sagebrush and tumbleweeds, you find what is left of the Granada War Reloca...

4 Congressmen Join Colorado Teacher And Students To Make Camp Amache, A Japanese Internment Camp, A National Historic Site CBS Denver 5/12/2021 Syndicated Local – CBS Denver GRANADA, Colo. (CBS4) – More than 70 years after an internment camp in Colorado for Japanese people closed, it could become a national historic site and part of the National Park System. On a lonely dirt road east of Lamar, amid sagebrush and tumbleweeds, you find what is left of the Granada War Reloca...

Bonnie Clark, a professor of archaeology at the University of Denver has researched the Amache site, concentrating on gardens and agriculture. As many of the Americans relocated to Amache came from the Central Valley of California and had expertise in farming, harvesting, and nursery work, the surrounding farmers did benefit from having the opportunity to hire workers. Thousands of work permits were granted annually, and Clark said at any one time, a quarter of those living in the camp were awa...

It was a painful, dark chapter of family history.   But during a pilgrimage to the site in 2008 with other survivors and his own family, standing on the barrack foundation where his family once lived after relocation, the stories came flooding out.   “When I was standing next to my father there at the Amache memorial during the ceremony, I could just see the look on his face and the emotions on his face and in his eyes,” Homma shared, holding back tears, during a community roundtable on A...

Editor’s note: This article is part of a multiple article series on the farmers and gardeners of Amache. Congressman Ken Buck, R-Colo., and Congressman Joe Neguse, D-Colo., chair of the U.S. House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands, introduced bipartisan legislation to designate the Granada Relocation Center, known as Amache, a former Japanese American relocation center in Granada, Colo., as a national park. “The unjustifiable internment of Japanese Americans is no do...

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