camp amache
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Meetings scheduled to help plan new National Park Service unit in Colorado
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Anyone interested in one of Colorado’s latest National Park Service additions is invited to a series of upcoming meetings. They have been scheduled ahead of the agency drafting a “foundation document” for Amache National Historic Site, the place on the state’s southeast plains where thousands of Japanese-Americans were imprisoned as part of the government’s “relocation”…
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Granada school teacher, students help enshrine Camp Amache’s legacy
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When John Hopper, dean of students for the Granada School District, began teaching his history students about Camp Amache in the early 1990s, the site was a sage-brush strewn prairie dotted with concrete foundations. Now, after Hopper and his students spent decades preserving the former Japanese American internment camp from World War II, advocating for it,…
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President Biden signs legislation designating Colorado’s Camp Amache a national historic site
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President Joe Biden on Friday signed bipartisan legislation to add the site of a World War II-era Japanese American internment center in the southeast corner of Colorado to the National Park System. Sponsored by Colorado lawmakers U.S. Reps. Joe Neguse and Ken Buck and U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, the Amache National Historic…
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RAMSEY | Will we learn from our sins at Amache, where Japanese-Americans were unjustly imprisoned?
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GRANADA – What happens when fear overwhelms the better angels of America? When obsession with national security conquers our constitutional commitment to personal liberty? When hysterical stereotype defeats peaceful reality? The answers are found on a windy prairie 180 miles southeast of Colorado Springs. Standing amid the ruins of Amache Internment Center delivers a sobering…
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BIDLACK | Reminders of Colo.’s Camp Amache in border separations
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It was windy the day I walked among the ruins, but it’s almost always windy there. Row after row of foundations – all that remains of the hundreds of buildings that once stood on over 600 acres of high plains Colorado east of Lamar. The Granada War Relocation Center – better known as Camp Amache…
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Lamar constituents hear about TABOR and hemp at Crowder, Lewis town hall
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Sen. Larry Crowder and Kimmi Lewis were all aboard on hemp last session and had no qualms about selling out the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, because the price was right. The Lamar Ledger this weekend provided a thorough accounting of a town hall meeting with the two southern Colorado Republicans last Thursday night at Lamar…
