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We share the history of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II at the site where 14,000 people were unjustly imprisoned between August 1942 and November 1945. See more at www.heartmountain.org
Are you a relative of a Heart Mountain draft resister or connected to the Fair Play Committee? We’d love to hear your family’s story and invite you to visit our upcoming exhibit honoring their legacy Limited sponsorship opportunities are available. www.heartmountain.org/support-the-...
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We're grateful the Wyoming House pulled these counterproductive budget amendments from consideration last week. We need to preserve our state's arts funding. @wyomingarts
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Join Shirley Ann Higuchi and Marina Berio at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington U. in Washington, DC, at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. See more details here:
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Anyone near St. Petersburg, Fla., on Saturday, March 14 should check out Hello Maggie!, our animated film of Shig Yabu and Willie Ito's book about Heart Mountain, at the Tigertail Asian Film Festival. See details here:
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Screenings for the Films of Remembrance festival featuring Hello Maggie! start today in San Francisco and continue until the end of March. See more details here:
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Benton County, OR, deputy DA Kevin Hashizume visited Heart Mountain to learn more about what his father, former incarceree John Hashizume, rarely discussed. “We just called it ‘camp.' As kids we thought it was like a summer camp or something.”
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Eighty-four years ago today, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which consigned 125,000 Japanese Americans to incarceration in concentration camps throughout the country. We commemorate this Day of Remembrance every year in hopes that this never happens again.
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Kayoshi Masuoka and his family were forced from their home in California and incarcerated at Heart Mountain. After the war, he settled in Cleveland and Chardon, OH, became a physician and served his community. We thank his family for thinking of us.
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We're grateful to be one of 15 museums and cultural organizations in Wyoming to receive a Culture Grows Grant from Wyoming Humanities. It will help us continue to serve our community. thinkwy.org/press-releas...
12.02.2026 15:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Last week, Executive Director Aura Sunada Newlin spoke to the Global Ethical Leaders Society (GELS) student organization at @cwrufarm.bsky.social Inamori International Center for Ethics & Excellence. We look forward to future partnerships with the Inamori Center.
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The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation is offering a one-day workshop for Wyoming educators to learn about the Japanese American incarceration. It's at our site near Powell, WY, on Saturday, April 4. Learn more here: www.heartmountain.org/jace-educato...
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Happy 93rd birthday to Sam Mihara, a Heart Mountain board member, former incarcerees and dedicated educator about the Japanese American incarceration. He has spoken in person to more than 125,000 people. No one works harder to tell our story.
02.02.2026 13:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join Executive Director Aura Sunada Newlin and shakuhachi flute maestro Michael Chikuzen Gould at the Lakewood, Ohio, Public Library tomorrow for two events. Cleveland was a refuge for Japanese Americans during World War II. See more details here:
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Anyone in the Ann Arbor, Michigan, area should check out Shirley Ann Higuchi, our board chair at the University of Michigan Law School with Karen Korematsu of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute for Fred Korematsu Day. The event is at 11:50 a.m., Friday, Jan. 30 in Jeffries Hall 1020.
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Miyo Koba was a teenager when she and her family were forced from their home in Toppenish, WA, and incarcerated at Heart Mountain. She spent most of the rest of her 101 years in Moses Lake, WA.
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Join us at 1 p.m. Saturday for our New Year mochi pounding session with Haruka Takaku. It's an annual tradition. Mochi makers at Heart Mountain during World War II helped preserve the morale of the camp's incarcerees. Learn more about this vital of history here: www.heartmountain.org/2026-winter-...
05.01.2026 21:33 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Removing history books from National Park Service bookstores limits the availability of honest accounts of American history.
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We look forward to having you visit us during this holiday season, but we will be closed on Dec. 25-25 and Jan. 1. Please plan accordingly, and we hope to see you soon.
23.12.2025 02:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We're working hard to get title to the land upon which our historic hospital and chimney sit, so we can upgrade the buildings and create new permanent exhibits.
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We’re proud of the accomplishments of the Powell HS students in our Smithsonian Democracy in Dialogue program. It’s another example of how our Smithsonian affiliation serves our community.
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A group of 60 people joined Eric Muller, Judge Kelly Higashi and Gerald Yamada for a tour of the National Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism in Washington Saturday to learn about the legal history of World War II incarceration.
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Heart Mountain: The History of an American Concentration Camp by Douglas W. Nelson is now available for sale on Amazon in hardcover, paperback and Kindle. Check it out here:
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If you're an educator interested in learning about how to teach about the Japanese American incarceration, check out the application for our new Maurice Walk Memorial workshops June 14-19, 2026 at Heart Mountain. It will be a great week.
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We're at the annual Teaching Primary Sources convention at the @librarycongress to learn how to teach our history better and to use more primary sources. It's great to be here.
04.12.2025 14:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On this Giving Tuesday, please consider donating to the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation. Your donation will help us continue to tell the story of the Japanese American incarceration at Heart Mountain.
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It's Cyber Monday, so look no further than the Heart Mountain store. We've got classic books, like Setsuko's Secret by Shirley Ann Higuchi, Heart Mountain by Douglas Nelson and In the Shadow of Heart Mountain by Frank T. Inouye. Check it out here:
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Japanese Americans know better than most people about the corrosive effects of scapegoating immigrants.
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Carolyn Takeshita was one of the leaders of the committee that created our permanent exhibit. She passed away at age 88 on Nov. 23. We mourn her loss and honor her contributions. www.monarchsociety.com/obituary/car...
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Shop our store for The Spinach King, John Seabrook’s account of his grandfather, the founder of Seabrook Farms, the New Jersey farm where hundreds of incarcerated Japanese Americans found work during World War II. It’s a New York Times top 100 book of the year.
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Executive director Aura Newlin and JOI coordinator Haruka Takaku toured Laramie's High Iron rail car exhibit with the project's creator Aubrey Edwards and Aura's sister Lena, who developed the section about their grandfather George Sunada's firing from the Union Pacific railroad.
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