Japanese Internment Camps
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation is recognizing the contributions made by its longtime Vice Chair Douglas Nelson by presenting him with a lifetime achievement award. The Douglas W. Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award acknowledges Nelson’s more than 50 years of commitment to telling the story of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II and Heart…
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…
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…
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