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250 in the West: Citizenship with Susan Kamei

Date:
Thursday, April 30
Time:
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Cost:
$12
Organizer:
High Desert Museum
Location:
High Desert Museum, 59800 S Hwy 97, Bend, OR 97702
Phone:
(541) 382-4754

Susan Kamei’s family members were among the over 120,000 Japanese Americans forcibly detained during World War II. Her book, When Can We Go Back to America?, grapples with contradictions between the ideas this country was founded on and the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans. Kamei will explore the constitutional, historical, and political ramifications for citizenship and what it means to be an American today.

Doors open at 6pm, program begins at 6:30pm.

About 250 in the West

2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. What does this document and the formation of the United States mean for us who live and work in the American West? 250 in the West, a new programmatic series at the High Desert Museum, explores the legacies of the 250th in the American West, from public lands to citizenship and sovereignty.