Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month: Databases and Digital Collections

This digital exhibit will explore the ways in which Japanese American adolescents, ages ten through eighteen, responded to evacuation and internment at the Central Utah Relocation Center—more commonly known as Topaz, named after the nearby Topaz Mountain.

In May 2015, Utah State University’s Fife Folklore Archives, Folklore Program, and The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress with help from the Burmese Muslim community hosted a Field School for Cultural Documentation: “Voices: Refugees in Cache Valley.” Cache Valley, Utah is the home of Burmese Muslim, Karen, and Eritrean refugees. Students documented the stories of these communities; which is an important goal of Utah State University’s Fife Folklore Archives (FFA). The subject matter of these interviews reflect the lives of refugees and may contain distressing content. This exhibit, a glimpse into the Burmese Muslim refugee community in Cache Valley, is one of the results of that work and has been approved by the interviewed community scholars.

In May 2015, Utah State University’s Fife Folklore Archives, Folklore Program, and The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress with help from the Karen community hosted a Field School for Cultural Documentation: “Voices: Refugees in Cache Valley.” Cache Valley, Utah is the home of Burmese Muslim, Karen, and Eritrean refugees. Students documented the stories of these communities; which is an important goal of Utah State University’s Fife Folklore Archives (FFA). The subject matter of these interviews reflect the lives of refugees and may contain distressing content. This exhibit documents and examines some of the experiences of Cache Valley refugees from Karen State in Burma and has been approved by the interviewed community scholars.