Obama also named two other monuments: the Honouliuli National Monument in Hawaii, a former internment camp and "painful part of our history"; and the "paradise" of the Browns Canyon National Monument in Colorado, a section of rapids along the Arkansas River that stretches 32 sq miles.
A map modelled on national-park handouts details stops along the way, including a campground and a burial site on the Trail of Tears, in Kentucky; former internment camps and current boot camps for troubled kids in Texas; and more pleasant camping facilities in Wyoming's Yellowstone and Grand Teton parks.
I visited the sites of the former Japanese American internment camps at Tulelake and Manzanar.
THE CATS OF MIRIKITANI For her directing début, Linda Hattendorf found a remarkable subject in the laconic Jimmy Mirikitani, an eighty-year-old homeless Japanese-American artist and former detainee at an internment camp in California during the Second World War who was living on the streets of SoHo.
He died at 86 in a hospital in Caserta, Italy, after an emergency operation for a gastric complication, according to the National Association of Former Political Deportees to Nazi Internment Camps, an Italian organization.
Once upon a time, clever lawyers told a former US president that indefinite internment would be acceptable in a great modern democracy, if it applied only to foreign nationals and only off-shore.
California State University is set to begin granting honorary degrees to former Japanese-American students who were sent to internment camps during World War II.
And over 280,000 Tamils, former inhabitants of the Tigers' fief, languish in internment camps.Nor is the government hastening towards a long-promised political settlement with the Tamils, thousands of whom were killed, allegedly by army shelling, in the war's last months.
He rejected repeated calls by the rightwing former president Nicolas Sarkozy for a type of internment in which people suspected of showing signs of radicalisation would be put in special detention centres.
Mr. Mineta, the lone Democrat in the new cabinet, is a former congressman who as a child was placed in an internment camp for Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Mr. Bush also fulfilled his pledge today not to leave Democrats behind, naming Norman Y . Mineta a former congressman and a Japanese-American who was placed in an internment camp as a child during World War II, to become transportation secretary.
