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May 13th, 2021, 11:00AM / BY Nolan Cool This black metal suitcase belonged to Iku Tsuchiya. It went with her to Tanforan Assembly Center, then to the Topaz camp, and back home to San Leandro, California. (NMAH) In 1983, the United States Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) asked, "What if vandals broke into your home, sprayed graffiti, and ransacked your property simply because of race, gender, or religious affiliation?" For some Japanese Americans during the 1940s, this was not a hypothetical question. The CWRIC's "what if" question really...

11 Moments From Asian American History That You Should Know Time 4/30/2021 Paulina Cachero © Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Lillie Chin, mother of Vincent Chin, who was clubbed to death by two white men in June 1982, breaks down as a relative (L), helps her walk while leaving Detroit's City County Building. More than 30 years after President George H.W. Bush signed a law that designated May 1990 as the first Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, much of Asian American history remains unknown to many Americans—including many Asian Americans themselves. Often...

  DENVER—The National Park Service (NPS) is extending the comment period for the Amache Special Resource Study to June 30, 2021, and invites the public to participate in three additional virtual (online) meetings. The NPS is conducting this study to determine whether Amache should be considered for inclusion as a unit of the national park system. Amache was one of 10 incarceration sites operated by the War Relocation Authority under the Department of the Interior during World War II. Japanese Americans and legal residents of Japanese ancestry were incarcerated at Amache, located just outsi...

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 away working on area farms and ranches. The internees at Amache played a role in harvesting the 1942 su...

| Updated: 2:32 p.m. It doesn’t look like much: A simple dirt road branching into a dusty basin, criss-crossed by tire tracks, ringed by an unimpressive ridgeline. But when Jim Kirkland talks about what’s in that plateau and the surrounding Cedar Mountain formation, his eyes light up. “This formation has more dinosaurs species than any other formation on the planet,” Kirkland, the Utah state paleontologist, told me last week as we walked along a rocky trail up to the rocky outcropping. “We’ve only known this recently.” The same geology that makes the formations in Arches Nation...