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HOURS: 10:00am – 5:00pm

Per the latest guidance from the CDC, we ask that all visitors wear masks while inside the interpretive center.

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    Heart Mountain Interpretive Center is hiring a part-time Guest Services staff member! Check out details and the application on our...

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    Interpretive Center Theater Named in Honor of Sam Mihara

      Former Heart Mountain incarceree Sam Mihara has spent the last 10 years traveling around the country, speaking to groups–of all ages and...

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      Farewell to LaDonna Zall

        We are saddened to report the passing of Heart Mountain's curator emeritus, LaDonna Zall. The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation will...

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        Father Luke Yokota

          by Krist Jessup In the southwest corner of St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Laramie, Wyoming, there is an unassuming stained-glass window...

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          Japanese American Pioneers of the Bighorn Basin

            by Dakota Russell Heart Mountain will always dominate any conversation about Japanese American life in Wyoming. That’s no surprise. In...

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            Our Podcast: Look Toward the Mountain

              Our new podcast, Look Toward the Mountain, tells the stories of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated at Heart Mountain. Told through...

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              Arthur & Estelle: A Heart Mountain Love Story

                This week, we'll be exploring the arts at Heart Mountain. Executive director Dakota Russell kicks things off with this program...

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                From Barbed Wire to Battlefield

                  Discover stories of young Japanese Americans who were uprooted from their communities and removed to live behind barbed wire during...

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                  Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation Coronavirus Response

                    Health & Safety Protocols: The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation takes the safety of our members and visitors seriously. To that...

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                    Heart Mountain Interpretive Center2 weeks ago
                    Listen to this charming and touching episode of the "This is Love" podcast, which features former Heart Mountain incarceree Shig Yabu telling the story of befriending his beloved magpie Maggie when he was a boy at Heart Mountain.
                    https://thisislovepodcast.com/episode-36-the-magpie-of-heart-mountain/
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                    When Shigeru Yabu was a little boy he made a new friend in an unexpected place. “That bird walked up my arm all the way to my shoulder, and we looked at each other, eye to eye.”
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                    TOKYO (AP) — Volleyball has always been a family affair for U.S. stars Kawika and Erik Shoji. The sons of legendary University of Hawaii women's coach Dave Shoji have put together impressive playing careers of their own at Stanford and for the United States as they began their second Olympic Games...
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                    TOKYO (AP) — Volleyball has always been a family affair for U.S. stars Kawika and Erik Shoji. The sons of legendary University of Hawaii women's coach Dave Shoji have put together impressive playing careers of their own at Stanford and for the United States as they began their second Olympic Games...
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                    "LaDonna Zall, a longtime Powell area resident, died last month at the age of 87; at a Saturday memorial service hosted by the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation, speakers recalled and honored her more than three decades of service.

                    'LaDonna was in many very real ways the essence and the soul of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation,” said Doug Nelson, the nonprofit’s vice chair, “and for me it’s hard, at least right now, to imagine this foundation without her.'"

                    https://powelltribune.com/stories/ladonna-zalls-compassion-decades-of-service-to-heart-mountain-remembered,33561
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                    Sam Mihara spent three awful years incarcerated at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center during World War II, among the tens of thousands of Japanese Americans confined to prison camps by suspicious …
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                    Former incarcerees met at the Salt Lake City Buddhist Temple when Judge Gogo from California stopped in Utah with two 48-star American flags he's taking across the country for survivors to sign.
                    Read more about the event: https://www.ksl.com/article/50213619/theres-still-prejudice-survivors-of-wwii-japanese-internment-gather-in-salt-lake-city
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                    Utahns who stayed in internment camps during World War II met at the Salt Lake City Buddhist Temple on Wednesday as a judge from California stopped with two 48-star American flags he's taking across the country for survivors to sign.
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                    In honor of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, the NVN highlights Takashi Halo Hirose, Japanese American World War II veteran who qualified for the 1940 Tokyo Olympic Games.

                    Hirose (right) learned to swim in the sugar plantation irrigation ditches near his home in Hawaii in the 1930's. His swimming talent was noticed by Soichi Sakamoto, an internationally recognized American swim coach who established the "Three-Year Swim Club" in 1937 for the children of sugar plantation workers.

                    When Hirose finally began competing in swim meets throughout Hawaii and mainland US, his success prompted an invite to Germany as a member of the All-American swim team. He was a part of the 400 meter freestyle relay team that went on to set a world record.

                    Although slated to compete in the 1940 Tokyo Olympics, the games were cancelled due to World War II. Hirose joined the U.S. Army as part of the100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team, earning five battle stars, the Combat Infantryman Badge and a Presidential Unit Citation.

                    After the war, he attended Ohio State University, where he was an All-American three times, an NCAA champion in the 100 freestyle event and helped OSU win Big Ten, NCAA, and AAU team titles. He passed away in 2002, and in 2017 was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.

                    Photo courtesy of 100th Infantry Battalion Veterans Education Center

                    To learn more about American WWII soldiers of Japanese ancestry, please visit us at www.nationalveteransnetwork.com.

                    #JapaneseAmerican #TokyoOlypmics #Olympics #WWII #American #Military #Veteran #Swimming #Diversity #AsianAmerican
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                    The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation mourns the passing of Senator Mike Enzi, and we send our condolences to his family and friends. Senator Enzi was an early champion for building Heart Mountain Interpretive Center in Wyoming. He was instrumental in securing some of the first funding for the project, and often spoke of the importance of remembering this chapter in our state’s history. He will be greatly missed.

                    Photo: Senator Enzi & his wife, with Heart Mountain Chair Shirley Ann Higuchi, then Congresswoman Cynthia Lummis, and Norman & Deni Mineta at an event in 2012.
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                    Please refer to our CORONAVIRUS PAGE for up-to-date information on current safety policies & protocols at the interpretive center. Per the latest guidance from the CDC, we ask that all visitors wear masks while inside the interpretive center.

                    SUMMER HOURS
                    May 15 to October 1
                    Open DAILY 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

                    WINTER HOURS
                    October 2 to May 14
                    Open Wednesday – Saturday: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
                    Other visitation by appointment

                    TELEPHONE (307) 754-8000

                    EMAIL info@heartmountain.org

                    ADDRESS
                    1539 Road 19
                    Powell, WY 82435

                    ADMISSION
                    Adults $9
                    Senior/Students $7
                    Under 12 Free
                    Special Group Rates

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                    Sam Mihara is one of the hardest-working members of the @HeartMountainWY board and travels constantly to spread the word of the Japanese American incarceration. It's only fitting that we named our museum's theater after him during our recent pilgrimage. Come see it! https://t.co/cbjYfi4B52
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                    16 hours ago
                    #OTD in 1944 the @HeartMountainWY Sentinel published this item about farmer Henry Mitarai, a former incarceree, who was seeking help on his farm in Richfield, UT. He had been a successful farmer in Santa Clara County before he and his family were incarcerated. 1/2 https://t.co/VciEsRiGzN
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                    17 hours ago
                    As @HiguchiJD noted in Setsuko's Secret, no community remains homogenous over time. Japanese Americans have intermarried with people from different and ethnic racial groups that two-thirds of all Japanese Americans are mixed race. https://t.co/cYYw69ad3l
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                    21 hours ago
                    Soon-to-be-released 2020 @uscensusbureau data will show a doubling in the percentage of Asian Americans in the United States and a dramatically changing population.
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                    23 hours ago
                    War can dramatically alter journalism ethics, as evidenced by the findings in two new books about @nytimes reporter William Laurence. That happened in February 1942 with Walter Lippmann's column that supported the Japanese American incarceration.
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