The 2026 Poston Pilgrimage will take place on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 16 and 17.
This year’s theme: “Celebrating Cultural Art in Camp.”
Visit Poston sites, share your Poston artifacts, attend workshops, experience performances by L.A.’s Grateful Crane Ensemble, and hear from Densho Executive Director Naomi Ostwald Kawamura on ”Creativity Under Constraints.”
Register by Monday, Aug. 31, at: https://www.postonpreservation.org/pilgrimage
The mission of the Poston Community Alliance is to preserve Poston’s incarceration history in order to uphold social justice for all Americans, regardless of race, religion and ethnicity. Through multimedia education and the preservation of stories, artifacts and historic structures, Poston’s unique multicultural history, involving Japanese Americans and Native Americans, will be kept alive.
The Poston War Relocation Center (also known as the Colorado River Relocation Center) was the largest and first to open of the ten American World War II concentration camps. Located on the Colorado River Indian Reservation in Parker, Ariz., it held over 17,000 Japanese Americans — two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens — between June 2, 1942, and Nov. 28, 1945.