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  2. Amache National Historic Site - Wikipedia

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    March 18, 2022. The Amache National Historic Site, formally the Granada War Relocation Center but known to the internees as Camp Amache (pronounced a-ma-chee), was a concentration camp for Japanese Americans in Prowers County, Colorado. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Japanese Americans on the West Coast were ...

  3. Japanese American prison camp site in Colorado is now a ...

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    The Amache National Historic Site — previously called the Granada War Relocation Center — was one of 10 concentration camps established during WWII that detained Japanese Americans in the wake ...

  4. America's newest national park honors 'painful chapter' in ...

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    America has a new national park. One of 10 Japanese incarceration camps located in a remote corner of southeastern Colorado, the Amache National Historic Site was designated as a national park ...

  5. Internment of Japanese Americans - Wikipedia

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    There were three types of camps. Civilian Assembly Centers were temporary camps, frequently located at horse tracks, where Japanese Americans were sent after they were removed from their communities. Eventually, most of the Japanese Americans were sent to Relocation Centers, also known as internment camps.

  6. Day of Remembrance (Japanese Americans) - Wikipedia

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    Camp Amache located in Granada, Colorado is one of the centers built as internment camp for japanese americans. In present day, Camp Amache is now known as Granada Relocation Center. In March 2022, President Joe Biden signed the Amache National Historic Site Act. This allowed for Amache National Historic Site to officially be a national park.

  7. List of Japanese-American internment camps - Wikipedia

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    Justice Department detention camps. These camps often held German-American and Italian-American detainees in addition to Japanese Americans: [ 1] Crystal City, Texas [ 2] Fort Lincoln Internment Camp. Fort Missoula, Montana. Fort Stanton, New Mexico. Kenedy, Texas. Kooskia, Idaho. Santa Fe, New Mexico.

  8. Amache Prowers - Wikipedia

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    Amache Ochinee Prowers, also known as Walking Woman (c. 1846–1905), was a Native American activist, advocate, cattle rancher, and operator of a store on the Santa Fe Trail. Her father was a Cheyenne peace chief who was killed during the Sand Creek massacre on November 29, 1864, after which she became a mediator between Colorado territorial ...

  9. America’s newest national park is an abandoned WWII ... - AOL

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