Tribal and Japanese American descendants reclaim their history on their terms each spring during an annual pilgrimage to the Amache incarceration site on the arid shortgrass prairie 225 miles southeast of Denver. They meet at the Amache National Historic Site and the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site. Descendants say the partnership helped to liberate them from the weight of the federal government’s denial of fundamental rights.
“Finding more cultural connections between our groups and our heritage has been really healing,” said Aya Sugiura, during the blustery May cedaring ceremony at Sand Creek. Her grandmother was among 10,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned at Amache between 1942 and 1945.
“The connection between the Amache site and the Sand Creek site is just one of many connections we were able to draw,” added Sugiura, who was among 10 youths who participated in a 2024–25 ambassador cohort assembled by the Amache Alliance, the Sand Creek Massacre Foundation, the National Parks Conservation Association, and the University of Denver Amache Project. “The name Amache was taken from a Cheyenne woman, Amache Prowers, or Walking Woman—her father was (murdered) at Sand Creek,” she said.
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