We’re on Capitol Hill this week meeting with the Wyoming delegation to discuss how to transfer the land where the hospital land and iconic chimney are located to Heart Mountain. Thanks to Rep. Harriet Hageman for our first meeting Monday. We’re grateful for her support.

Visitors to Heart Mountain can combine a stop at our site with a hike in the Petroglyph Canyon in the Pryor Mountains of Montana north of Heart Mountain. Our staff hiked there Sunday to learn more about this fascinating part of our region.

Rocky Mountain partners convene at Heart Mountain to launch workshops - Powell Tribune The first public event and educator workshop supported by a National Park Service grant will be conducted in September in Missoula, Montana. Leaders of five Japanese American confinement site …

Our educator workshop program involves four other confinement sites from the Rocky Mountain area. We'll be traveling around the country teaching educators about this pivotal part of American history that's increasingly relevant today.
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We support the efforts of Sens. Schatz, Hirono, Padilla, Warren, Cantwell, Gillibrand and Bennet to restore $4.56 million in funding for the Japanese American Confinement Sites program of @NatlParkService. It helps us restore critical parts of our facility.

Join us at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, April 23 at the Little Big Horn Tribal College Cultural Building in Crow Agency, MT, for a showing of Heart Mountain Voices, a video showing the relationships of Apsaalooke and Japanese American young people to Heart Mountain.

Our success in running educator workshops, including the group pictured here from 2024, helped us win support for five years' worth of workshops starting two months from now. We'll assemble a group of 30 educators from 17 states from Maine to California. We can't wait!

Donald Trump Can't Rewrite History Everywhere While the White House pressures federal museums to toe the party line for America's 250th, thousands of local institutions are determined to tell the whole story.

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Thanks to the Cate School in Carpinteria, CA, and Montgomery Kanda-Gleeson and his family, Sam Mihara gave his award-winning lecture on Heart Mountain and the Japanese American incarceration. He also signed multiple copies of his book, Blindsided. Credit: Freddy Randall

Bacon Sakatani and Takashi Hoshizaki helped create the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation and make the site where they were incarcerated during World War II into a museum. They were in Los Angeles for a recent reunion of incarcerees. They were joined by David Fujioka.

If you're in Providence, RI, on April 15, join Executive Director Aura Sunada Newlin for Lawyers in Justice, Lawyers' Injustice with the RI Women's Bar Association and RI Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Find out more here:

We convened five Japanese American confinement site organizations at Heart Mountain last weekend to develop our plans for three years of public events and educator workshops designed to share the history of the Japanese American incarceration. Shirley Ann Higuchi explains why.

Shirley Ann Higuchi, chair of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation, explains why it's so important for the foundation to gain title to the land that holds our historic hospital and iconic chimney.

Funding jeopardy - Powell Tribune As the long process to restore and create an exhibit to display the historic root cellar at the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center continues, the funding that made that and other projects possible is ...

The administration's proposed elimination of funding for the Japanese American Confinement Sites program will hurt places like Heart Mountain, Topaz, Minidoka, Manzanar and other organizations trying to tell this history. We're working to reverse it.
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Selena brought a lot of great information!

It's great that you're here, Selena!

When my family lived in Powell, Wyoming in the 50s we'd drive past this place often and every time my father (A veteran of the 10th Mountain Division) would make some comment about how disgusting it was that we'd do something like that to American citizens...watching it happen again...🤬

Critically important history to remember.

We've had educators from Idaho and Montana attend our previous workshops, and we've had good support from legislators from those states for our work. We're not going to stop working to tell this story.

We're doing everything we can to expand the teaching of this history. Our workshop program will go to a dozen states over the next three years to help educators learn more.

Thanks. Heart Mountain produced a podcast about the Japanese American incarceration in 2021: Look Toward the Mountain. You can find it on our website here: www.heartmountain.org/look-toward-...

Educators learn lessons of justice and memory at Heart Mountain workshop in Wyoming The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation hosted its first educator workshop through the National Park Service’s Japanese American Confinement Sites Education Program.

We've joined with our partner organizations from Colorado, Idaho, Montana and Utah for a series of teacher workshops about the Japanese American incarceration. Shirley Ann Higuchi and Eric Muller tell Isabel Spartz of KTVQ why these workshops matter.
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It's really not that complicated. We need to learn to live with all of our history. #America250

Animation Legend Willie Ito on Disney, Hanna-Barbera, and the two-decade journey of Hello Maggie Willie Ito, the "Forrest Gump of Animation," shares his journey from Topaz to Disney and a now his labor of love, HELLO MAGGIE, at WonderCon.

Willie Ito and Tony Tarantini, animator and director of Hello Maggie!, described their work last weekend at WonderCon, the conference for animators in Anaheim, California. Willie talked about Hello Maggie!'s 20-year journey to become an animated film.

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My family was imprisoned in camps for Japanese Americans. They'd be horrified by today's immigrant roundups His uncle, forced into a "relocation center" in Wyoming, enlisted during World War II and died in France. The nation he served then looks terrifyingly like the country sending immigrants to camps now.

The nation that sent Darrell Kunitomi’s family and 125,000 other Japanese Americans to camps during World War II looks a lot like our nation today.
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Wyoming Has One University. Can It Survive Its Own Legislature? The state’s flagship dodged a $40-million cut but not the bigger questions it raised.

A group of new guard, super-conservative Republican lawmakers tried to cut $40 million from the University of Wyoming's budget. Here's why they failed. https://chroni.cl/4e4vbXs

Survivors of US wartime incarceration speak through interactive exhibit - The Mainichi LOS ANGELES (Kyodo) -- The Japanese American National Museum has unveiled an interactive video interface that will allow visitors to talk to survivors

We're installing the Takashi Hoshizaki StoryFile video at our site in a few months. It will be a great way for visitors and those online to interact with a Heart Mountain legend.
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VOX POPULI: Warehousing Suspected Undocumented Immigrants Echoes Wartime Incarceration - Rafu Shimpo HEART MOUNTAIN WYOMING FOUNDATION At the outset of World War II, the U.S. government hastily constructed vast camps across the country to incarcerate, without any due process, more than 125,000 U.S. c...

The Department of Homeland Security’s emerging plan to confine thousands of detained individuals and families in immense warehouse facilities never intended for human habitation risks creating awful suffering and lifelong trauma.
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On Medal of Honor Day, we remember Joe Hayashi and James Okubo, whose families were incarcerated at Heart Mountain. Their stories are featured in our museum, where Anne and Bill Okubo, James' children, visited last year during our pilgrimage.

Make your plans now to see Sam Mihara at the Altadena Community Center from 1-3 p.m. on Saturday, May 16. Sam was incarcerated at Heart Mountain with his family when he was 9 years old. What he witnessed has remained with him for the last 80 years. Don't miss it.

‘Hello Maggie!’ nets awards “Hello Maggie!,” the animated film adapted from the book by Shigeru Yabu and Willie Ito who were incarcerated as children during World War II, captured the best short film award

We're proud to have produced Hello Maggie!, the animated film version of the book by Shig Yabu and Willie Ito. It just won best short film at the Tigertail Asian Film Festival.
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