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DESCRIPTION:FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\n\nContact: Dr. Gail Okawa\n\nEmail:  g
 yokawa@yahoo.com\n\nOn April 20\, 2002\, the City of Santa Fe and the Sant
 a Fe Internment Camp (SFIC) Historical Marker Committee dedicated the SFIC
  Historical Marker on a hill at Frank S. Ortiz Park.  It was a peaceful 
 resolution to a heated community controversy twenty years ago.\n\nThe Sant
 a Fe Internment Camp\, established in March 1942\, had incarcerated over 4
 \,500 Japanese immigrant men\, making it one of America’s largest prison
  camps for resident aliens in the U.S. during WWII.  Secrecy and misinfo
 rmation in wartime\, which caused confusion and discord fifty years later\
 , made the 2002 dedication a historic and healing event.  \n\nOn Saturda
 y\, April 23\, 2022\, a day-long symposium will be held at the New Mexico 
 History Museum from 10-4:30 to inform and remind attendees of the historic
 al existence of the U.S. Justice Department internment camp on the site of
  the present Casa Solana neighborhood\, and to memorialize the experience 
 of thousands of Japanese immigrants and American-born citizens unjustly in
 carcerated there between 1942 and 1946.\n\nEqually important\, it will cel
 ebrate the courage of the Santa Fe and New Mexico communities for acknowle
 dging the WWII internment in their history through the Marker and their sc
 hool curriculum. At the dedication ceremony in 2002\, Dr. Thomas Chávez\,
  then director of the Palace of the Governors and a committee co-chair\, s
 tated\, “We are here not to celebrate an event about which none of us is
  proud\; we are here to commemorate an event that happened\; it is our his
 tory.”  \n\nThe program\, “Stories\, Memories\, and Legacies—The S
 anta Fe Internment Camp and Its Historical Marker\,” will include speake
 rs\, readers theater performances\, films and panel discussions on the Mar
 ker controversy\, as well as connections between the historical events and
  contemporary issues.\n\nA pilgrimage will follow the symposium for attend
 ees at the Marker site at Ortiz Park with a procession\, prayers\, and dru
 mming performances by a Santa Fe taiko group.\n\nIn addition\, History Mus
 eum visitors can view three related exhibits in Room 15 of the Palace of t
 he Governors from April 9-30 during Museum hours: “Generational Legacies
 :  The Santa Fe Internment Camp\,” which focuses on the lives of two S
 FIC internees\, a guard and their descendants\, including local Santa Fe a
 rtist Jerry West\; panels on the SFIC from Confinement in the Land of Ench
 antment\, a National Parks Service project\; and a display of SFIC artifac
 ts from the History Museum’s collection.\n\n<a href="https://621d6b5ca8f
 24.site123.me/" target="_blank">For more information &gt\;&gt\;</a>
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SUMMARY:Stories\, Memories\, and Legacies—The Santa Fe Internment Camp an
 d Its Historical Marker
URL:/en/events/2022/04/23/stories-memories-and-legaciesthe-santa-fe-inter/
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