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Show National Park Service WASHINGTON (continued) Recipient: Project Title: Grant Award: Site (s): Description: Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project Stories Less Told Part II: Video Oral Histories of the Japanese American Incarceration $210,000 Multiple sites, counties and states This oral history project conducted by Densho will produce and digitize 140 little-known stories of internment from World War II. Building on a previous 2009 project (Stories Less Told Part I) funded by a Japanese American Confinement Sites grant, Densho will collect stories from WRA camps, assembly centers, Department of Justice camps, and camps in Hawaii. The stories range from experiences of women internees,Japanese Americans educated in Japan (known as Kibei), and non-Japanese Americans who had roles in the administration of confinement camps or who witnessed Japanese American removal. Of the 140 oral histories, 80 newly recorded and 60 donated interviews will be digitally processed, archived, indexed and produced onto DVDs. The digital form of the oral histories will be made accessible on Densho's website (www.densho.org). The digital database currently holds a collection of 400 interviews, 10,500 photographs and documents, and a social studies curriculum. Wing Luke Memorial Foundation dba Wing Luke Asian Museum Recipient: Project Title: First Person Stories Revealed: Historic Materials from Minidoka Preserved through the Higo Ten Cent Store Grant Award: $100,000 Minidoka Relocation Center,Jerome County, ID Site(s): Description: Stored within the Higo Ten Cent Store in Seattle's Japantown are photographs, camp documents, souvenirs, memorabilia, and artifacts saved by the Murakami family who were incarcerated at the Minidoka Relocation Center. This project will preserve these historic materials and share them with the public through a traveling display and book publication. Under the guidance of the Wing Luke Memorial Foundation, this project will present the traveling display at two Seattle festivals, distribute 1,500 copies of the publication, and conduct 10-12 oral history interviews with Murakami family members and close associates. Looking west on F Street at the Heart Mountain The documents and letters saved by the Murakami Relocation Center in Wyoming. Photo courtesy: The family and presented by this project will educate Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. the public on the effects of forced internment and Japanese American resettlement. Additional information on the project's publication and display will be updated and found on the "Teachers Resource" page of the Wing Luke Memorial Foundation's website (www.wingluke.org). WYOMING Recipient: Project Title: Grant Award: Site(s): Description: Heart Mountain, Wyoming Foundation Heart Mountain Interpretive Learning Center (Phase 3: Interior Build-Out) $832,879 Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Park County, WY In 2009, the Heart Mountain, Wyoming Foundation received aJapanese American Confinement Sites grant award of $292,253 to help construct the Heart Mountain Interpretive Learning Center. With the 2010 grant of $832,879, the Heart Mountain, Wyoming Foundation will complete the remaining construction of the facility. The entire project includes the completion of the interior construction, and the remaining exterior infrastructure (parking lot, lighting, landscaping, concrete, and the water treatment system). 14 |
