Heart Mountain Interpretive Center
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation has received its fourth consecutive Landmarks of American History and Culture grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant will be used for the “Heart Mountain, Wyoming, and the Japanese American Incarceration” program, which will bring 72 teachers from around the country to Heart Mountain to study the…
Three Japanese Americans who helped build the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation will receive the organization’s first lifetime achievement awards during its annual pilgrimage that starts Thursday, July 27, and runs through Saturday, July 29. Jeanette Misaka, Bacon Sakatani, and Raymond Uno who were incarcerated as children at Heart Mountain along with 14,000 Japanese Americans during…
Heart Mountain Interpretive Center has a new exhibit celebrating the neighborhood where Japanese and Black Americans found solidarity. When an executive order forced Japanese Americans in a Los Angeles neighborhood known as J-Flats from their homes and into incarceration camps in the United States, their African American neighbors came to their aid. The family of…
For the very first time, the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation will open to the public a session of its workshops for teachers from around the country for a presentation on the mistreatment of German American war resisters in Montana during World War I. Dr. Keith Edgerton, a recently retired historian at Montana State University-Billings, will…
The Mineta-Simpson Institute at Heart Mountain has taken another step closer to completion with the awarding of a $149,646 grant from the National Park Service to help fund an exhibit dedicated to the lives and careers of Secretary Norman Mineta and Senator Alan Simpson. The grant, announced Wednesday, comes from the Japanese American Confinement Sites program,…
Author Eric Muller, who teaches law at the University of North Carolina and who taught for years at the University of Wyoming, has written a new book titled, “Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe – Complicity and Conscience in America’s World War II Concentration Camps,” about three white lawyers who were assigned by the government to Japanese…
Sam Mihara, who was incarcerated at Heart Mountain as a child, has received a grant from the Wyoming Humanities Council to travel around the state and teach about the Japanese American incarceration that happened during World War II. A board member of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation, the 90-year-old Mihara is an award-winning educator who…
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation is releasing a new digital exhibit featuring English translations of poems, essays, and short stories written in Japanese by first-generation immigrants incarcerated at Heart Mountain during World War II. Bungei (pronounced boon-gay; 文藝 or 文芸 in Japanese) roughly translates to “arts and literature.” The Heart Mountain Bungei is a Japanese-language…
For the H.M.I.C., the “baseless, dangerous and defamatory attacks” against Representative Chu are in the same vein as those that lead to the internment camps that detained “disloyal” Japenese Americans during World War II. Judy Chu has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2009. She currently serves as the representative for California’s 28th…
UPDATE: Monday, 11:45AM Aura Sunada Newlin, from the Heart Mountain Interpretative Center commented on what President Biden said yesterday about the use of internment camps for Japanese-Americans. Her quote has been added to the story. President Joe Biden called the use of internment camp for Japanese Americans who lived on the west coast of the…