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ArchaeoCafé - Episode 30 - Garden-variety archaeology: An interview with Bonnie Clark

1h 0m · ArchaeoCafé · 02 Dec 16:00

In this episode, we talk with Bonnie Clark about the archaeology of gardens, historical archaeology, and her research at the site of the Amache Japanese internment camp in Colorado, U.S.A.


Episode notes are available on the ArchaeoCafé website.
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About Bonnie Clark


Dr. Clark is a professor of historical archaeologist at the University of Denver (DU), Department of Anthropology as well as the Curator for Archaeology of the DU Museum of Anthropology. She currently leads the DU Amache Project. Her work on the Amache Project has been highlighted in numerous venues including Archaeology and American Archaeology magazines. In 2011, Dr. Clark’s work was recognized by her peers with the University of Denver’s Teacher/Scholar of the Year award.

Web:
https://portfolio.du.edu/bclark
https://liberalarts.du.edu/about/people/bonnie-j-clark
https://independent.academia.edu/BonnieJClark
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bonnie_Clark3



Some useful terminology and links


Japanese American Internment during WWII
The forced relocation and incarceration in concentration camps in the western interior of the country of about 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry. Sixty-two percent of the internees were United States citizens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans


Granada Relocation Project (a.k.a "Camp Amache")
Located near the town of Granada, Colorado, U.S.A., this relocation center was one of 10 centers constructed in the U.S.A. during World War II for the purpose of interning Japanese Americans and people of Japanese descent. More than 10,000 people passed through Camp Amache and, with over 7,300 internees at its peak. Two-thirds of the internees were citizens of the U.S.A.
https://www.nps.gov/places/granada-relocation-center.htm


Amache Preservation Society (APS)
The APS maintains the physical site of Amache and is instrumental in its preservation. It has renovated and restored key Amache landmarks. https://amache.org/


DU Amache project
A community collaboration committed to researching, preserving, and interpreting the physical history of Amache, Colorado’s WWII-era Japanese American internment camp.
https://portfolio.du.edu/amache
https://www.facebook.com/DUAmacheResearchProject 



Selected publications


Finding Solace in the Soil: An Archaeology of Gardens and Gardeners at Amache
by Bonnie J. Clark
Dr. Clark's new book on the archaeology of Amache's gardens.
https://upcolorado.com/university-press-of-colorado/item/3885-finding-solace-in-the-soil


Cultivating Community: The Archaeology of Japanese American Confinement at Amache
by Bonnie Clark
In: Legacies of Space and Intangible Heritage: Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and the Politics of Cultural Continuity in the Americas (2017)
https://doi.org/10.5876/9781607325727.c005



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