World War II
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…
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…
Krist Ishikawa Jessup, Research and Editing Manager at the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center, spoke about the Mineta-Simpson Institute and how construction of the new building is coming along. Krist also spoke about the current exhibit called “Parallel Barbed Wire” that deals with the incarceration of Japanese Americans and the Holocaust in Europe.
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…
Aura Sunada Newlin, Interim Director of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation, spoke about the re-release of the ground-breaking book by Douglas Nelson titled “Heart Mountain: The History of an American Concentration Camp.” The book was originally released in 1968, but the updated edition includes a new chapter about the history of the Heart Mountain Wyoming…
A Western Icon Harry Jackson, one of the most famous and prolific American artists of the 20th century, is perhaps not as widely known as his friend and counterpart Jackson Pollock, but the scope of Jackson’s legacy is legendary. The Harry Jackson Institute (HJI) based here in Cody has the largest collection of work by…
Aura Sunada Newlin, Interim Director for the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation spoke about her family connection to Heart Mountain, what kind of exhibits are in the Interpretive Center and the new Mineta – Simpson Institute which broke ground in July.
On Thursday, September 15th, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West will host Local Lore with Bob Richard, from noon– 1 p.m., in the Coe Auditorium. His talk is titled, “The Story of the Heart Mountain Internment Camp.” During World War II, more than “14,000” Japanese Americans were confined at the Heart Mountain Internment Camp…
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