If the name "Amache" does not ring a bell to you, then you are not alone. It was a Japanese Interment Camp located near Granada, Colorado.  People with the last names of Saito, Yasuda, and Hamamoto were suddenly rounded up in the weeks following the attack on Pearl Harbor and forced into camps in the most rural areas of the US -- all because they had Japanese ancestry. 

Amache officially became America's newest National Historic Site.  It will be preserved in perpetuity. The video linked here has a moving conversation with a woman who was a small child incarcerated at Amache. Many of the people who survived Amache moved into farming communities in eastern Colorado.  Brighton has a number of Japanese-American families who had been at the camp. 

https://www.loc.gov/item/2015632197/ 

The National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places is an excellent way to use our largest primary sources in new and creative ways.   The NPS Website has an entire section on Japanese-American Incarceration.

Using the Project Zero True for Who Inquiry Strategy can help your students work through internment camp collections and oral histories.

The Ninomiya Family in their barracks at Amache

https://www.loc.gov/item/2023632674/

S-35 Amache Study Act

Amache Site

Students in Adult Craft Class

Emergency Appendectomy

Japanese-American Veterans Association -- Michael Honda oral history collection

Granada Pioneer Japanese Language Newspaper

University of Denver Amache Reunion, 1998, Interviews

Densho Digital Repository for Japanese Internment Camp Primary Sources (search the name of the Internment Camp you are looking for)

  3 - 5    6 - 8    9 - 12    13+    Social Studies/History    Japanese    Japanese-American    Internment    Internment Camp    Teaching with Historic Places    Colorado