Project Grant P16AP00168

The National Park Service, through the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program (CFDA 15.933), awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to the Puyallup Valley Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League. The grant will support the creation of a permanent exhibit at the Washington State Fair in Puyallup, Washington, to educate visitors about the 7,600 Japanese and Japanese Americans who were incarcerated at the Puyallup Assembly Center during World War II. The exhibit will...

This federal Project Grant award of $300,000 was provided by the Department of the Interior's National Park Service Intermountain Region under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933). The funding will support Visual Communications Media, a non-profit media arts organization, to produce a 30-minute narrative film called "The Camera" that explores the intergenerational trauma and ongoing impacts of the Japanese American incarceration during World War...

The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation received a $224,892 Project Grant award from the Department of the Interior National Park Service under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933). The grant will support the creation and installation of a permanent exhibit at the Mineta-Simpson Institute at Heart Mountain, highlighting the decades-long friendship between former Congressmen Norman Y. Mineta and Alan K. Simpson, who first met as Boy Scouts at the Heart...

This $519,362 Project Grant award from the National Park Service's Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) program will fund the design and installation of a permanent exhibit inside the sole surviving root cellar built by Japanese Americans incarcerated at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming during World War II. The exhibit, developed in consultation with former incarcerees, will highlight the critical role of agriculture at the Heart Mountain camp and...

The National Japanese American Historical Society Inc. was awarded a $1,517,920 project grant by the U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) program. The grant will fund the Fragile Freedoms Project, which aims to educate over 500 teachers on the history of Japanese American incarceration during WWII. Key project activities include developing professional development workshops, establishing teacher...

This $315,314 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Park Service under the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) program. The grant will fund a 3-year project to conduct archaeological excavations and archival research to document the history and remains of the Moab Citizen Isolation Center in Utah. Key project activities include: Subsurface archaeological fieldwork to identify and excavate material deposits related to the confinement site. Archival...

The Department of the Interior's National Park Service Intermountain Region awarded a $474,528 Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) Grant (CFDA 15.933) to Densho, a nonprofit organization, to preserve and interpret the history of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Through this Project Grant, Densho will digitize 50,000 archival items, conduct outreach to survivors and descendants to gather contextual information, and incorporate the new digital materials into...

This $189,575 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will support two one-week workshops for educators to learn about the Japanese American incarceration during World War II. The workshops will utilize faculty members from the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation staff as well as outside experts. The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation, a non-profit organization, operates the Heart...

The National Park Service is providing a $2,494,369 Project Grant through the Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) program to the non-profit organization Densho. The grant will fund the development of the Densho Educational Engagement Platform (DEEP), a comprehensive, AI-assisted digital platform to support teachers in effectively utilizing high-quality historical content related to Japanese American incarceration during World War II. The platform will integrate...

This federal Project Grant award of $575,479 from the National Park Service's Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites program (CFDA 15.933) supports a two-phase project by United Tribes Technical College (UTTC) in Bismarck, North Dakota. The first phase has already completed the renovation of a 6,000 square foot WWII internee barrack courtyard. The second phase will involve engraving approximately 2,000 names of Japanese immigrants and Japanese American renunciants from Tule Lake...