Tag: Amache
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Granada school teacher, students help enshrine Camp Amache’s legacy
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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Amache national historic site bill passes U.S. House, heads to Senate
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Camp Amache, a Japanese American incarceration camp that imprisoned over 7,000 in southeast Colorado, took one step closer to becoming a national park Thursday. The Amache National Historic Site Act, a bipartisan effort to preserve and learn from the legacy of the notorious incarceration camp,…