Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation
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…
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,…
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…
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation is announcing the publication of an updated edition of Douglas Nelson’s Heart Mountain: The History of an American Concentration Camp. Initially published in 1976, Nelson’s book was the first examination of life inside the incarceration site for Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain during World War II. According to the Heart…
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation is wishing Senator Alan K. Simpson, one of the inspirations for its Mineta-Simpson Institute, a “happy 91st birthday.” As part of their celebration for the birthdays of Al and his wife Ann, who turns 91 on Oct. 10th, the Foundation is promoting a “Show Your Love” fundraising campaign for the…
Two separate grants from ThinkWY will help the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center continue its mission to ensure the camp and its history are never forgotten. The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation celebrates two grants awarded by ThinkWY, the Wyoming Humanities Council. Both an operating support and a programming grant were awarded as part of the American…
Park County historians are searching throughout the Bighorn Basin for barracks that once housed Japanese Americans – you may own or work in one without even knowing it. During World War II, over 14,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated in the Heart Mountain Relocation Center during its three-year existence. It was, at the time, the third-largest…
The CARES Act helps a local and important piece of Wyoming history stay alive. The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in the amount of $92,852 dollars. This funding was made available thanks to the CARES Act passed through the U.S. Congress. The grants are intended…
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