In the News!

Photographs of Archaeology staff leading tours at the annual Amache pilgrimage featured in “Visitors to Colorado historic sites urged to report ‘negative’ information about America, per order”

The Amache & Sand Creek Youth ambassador program which Co-Director Annie Danis was critical in establishing, was featured in “In Colorado, two groups with a shared history are coming together to heal”

Additional articles with mention to Amache & Sand Creek Youth ambassador program here and here.

Co-Director Bonnie Clark and Carlene Tanigoshi Tinker, project volunteer and Amache survivor, were featured in two Colorado Public Radio pieces about roses first found by archaeology crews at Amache.

Co-Director Bonnie Clark mentioned in National Public Radio’s morning edition in relation to the Amache rose.

Dr. Clark was interviewed for a similar piece on Canadian Public Radio entitled “Japanese Americans planted a rose bush at a WW II internment camp. Now it's blooming again”

Bonnie Clark and Carlene Tanigoshi Tinker featured in “Preserved by students, WWII internment camp becomes national park”

The experience of a 2022 field school student featured in “Recently finishing a research experience at Amache Japanese American incarceration camp in Colorado, Anthropology senior William Smith shares how his UM-Dearborn archaeological experiences prepared him for that field study and for his future”

Carlene Tanigoshi Tinker wrote about her field school experience in an editorial entitled “I survived a Japanese American internment camp. We cannot forget that history.”

Co-Project Director Dr. April Kamp-Whittaker was featured in a 2019 article by Arizona State University, where she received her Ph.D.

Tomi Eijima, an Amache descendant and 2018 High School intern, reflected on her experience at Amache in an article for the national newspaper of the Japanese American Citizens League.

In June 2018, the field school hosted a tour group from History Colorado. A reflection on the experience is here in visitor Donna Bryson's blog.