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Location
Los Angeles, CA
Project Title
Sunrise Prayer
Fiscal Year Awarded
2020
Grant Amount
$10,000
Sunrise Prayer, a devised piece with oral histories, text, cultural traditions and an original song cycle, tells the story of the WWII Concentration Camp, in Poston, Arizona, on the lands of the Colorado River Indian Tribes (CRIT).
The legal regime that built the US Concentration Camps incarcerating Japanese Americans with Executive Order 9066, also legislated the Indian Removal Act, the genocide that followed. The Sunrise Prayer Project interconnects these histories of the CRIT and Japanese Americans that endured these vulgar consequences.
Through activism and committed community building, this team, for the first time, brings these Peoples together to share their joint histories.