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Amache National Historic Site in Colorado has formally been established in the National Park System following the Town of Granada’s acquisition and donation of the land needed to establish the nation’s newest national park.
A former internment camp in southeast Colorado where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II is now home to the state’s newest national park.
The site in southeastern Colorado was one of 10 incarceration sites established by the War Relocation Authority during World War II to detain Japanese Americans.
On Thursday, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland formally established the former Amache Internment Camp in southeastern Colorado as a national park.
Even a passing glance at documentary materials from the 1930s — the bread lines, the work camps, the images of chains of misery as migrants fled the Dust Bowl to find employment in the West — ought to throw cold water on this theory. One photographer, Dorothea Lange, was responsible for the gravest of those images, bridging the gap between individual experience and national story.