Former Japanese American Incarceration Site Becomes America's Newest National Park
Colorado’s Amache National Historic Site is the newest national park. It was one of 10 WW2 sites where Japanese Americans were imprisoned.
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Colorado’s Amache National Historic Site is the newest national park. It was one of 10 WW2 sites where Japanese Americans were imprisoned.
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Executive Order 9066, signed Feb. 19, 1942, authorized the U.S. military to forcibly remove persons of Japanese ancestry from their homes.
"It's important for the museum, for our relationship, how we maintain forward motion," Rice-Allen said. "As the owners of the land, the keeper of the culture, it's wanting to make sure there is a level of communication and respect of the whole process."
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said that establishment of the site in Colorado will help preserve an "important and painful chapter in our nation’s