VOLUME 60 | ISSUE 30
WEEK OF FEBRUARY 29, 2024
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BLOWING IN THE WIND
Former Japanese Thornton considers new rules for flapping, fluttering signs P2 internment camp joins national park system BY EMMA VANDENEINDE KUNC
Amache, a former Japanese internment camp in far southeastern Colorado, is now officially part of the national park system. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994, and later named a National Historic Landmark in 2006. President Joe Biden signed the Amache National Historic Site Act in 2022, pushing the site even further to national park status. But the land still had to be transferred by the town of Granada before it could be official. Without that piece, no federal funding could be put into the site. “As a nation, we must face the wrongs of our past in order to build a more just and equitable future,” said Deb Haaland, the Secretary of the Interior, in a press release. “Today’s establishment of the Amache National Historic Site will help preserve and honor this important and painful chapter in our nation’s story for future generations.” SEE PARK SYSTEM, P10
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