AAPIP Blog

As part of the packet we’re  handing out to participants of the NAP/AAPIP site session in Colorado, here is a short listing of informational links ompiled by staff to help provide context for the visit.

We will continue to add to this list so please let us know in the comments if there are other links or resources you recommend we include.  Thank you!

• Camp Amache the Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe Trail – an in-depth look at Amache, located near Granada, Colorado between Lamar and Holly.

• The Amache Japanese Internment Camp - Records at the Colorado State Archives

• List of Detention Camps, Temporary Detention Centers, and Department of Justice Internment Camps

• Read the full text of the Executive Order 9066 resulting in the Relocation of Japanese in 1942
  

• The National Parks Service hosts an “online book” with an extensive map (jpg ) of detention camps, relocation centers, isolation centers, and temporary camps.  A second map is also available here.

• Japanese American Internment – Historical Timeline
  

Sand Creek Resources:

• Read NAP’s Sand Creek Letter about the Site Session (PDF)

• Rural Philanthropy Days

• Sand Creek Massacre – National Park Service , National Historic Site – download PDF.

• Three weeks after the Sand Creek Massacre,Captain Silas Soule wrote the following letter to Major Wynkoop regarding Colonel Chivington’s unprovoked attack on a large encampment of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians.

• Two Editorials from the Rocky Mountain News (1864) (via PBS website)

Additional Articles:

• “Relatives of Interned Japanese-Americans Side With Muslims”, By Nina Berstein, New York Times. Published: April 3, 2007

• “Amache internment camp survivors remember tough times”,  By Jordan Dresser, The Denver Post,  Published: 07/04/2008