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HOURS: 10:00am – 5:00pm

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Free Admission Day!

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      What’s in a Name?

        by Duncan Ryūken Williams Each of the over 14,000 individuals who were incarcerated in Heart Mountain had a name. But...

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          National Day of Remembrance: 80 Years of Reckoning

            Eighty years ago, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 that put into motion the forced removal and incarceration of 120,000...

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            Recreating a Taste of “Home”: The Challenge of Finding Good Food While Incarcerated

              by Emily Anderson The first meals at Heart Mountain and the other incarceration camps, as recalled later by former incarcerees,...

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              Father Luke Yokota

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

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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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                  Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation opens applications for 2023 educator workshops

                  The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation is now accepting applications from educators from around the country to participate in workshops to learn about the Japanese American incarceration during World War II and share that history with their students.

                  Applications for the workshops — Echoes of History: Mistreatment and Incarceration in the American West — will be accepted from Dec. 1, 2022, through March 3, 2023. The workshops, which will be conducted at the site of the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center and various locations in Cody and Powell, will be offered during the weeks of June 18-23 and July 23-28, 2023.

                  This will be the third consecutive year in which Heart Mountain will lead the workshops as part of the Landmarks of American History and Culture program of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

                  Thirty-six educators will travel to Heart Mountain for each week of the program for a total of 72 educators overall. They will receive a $1300 stipend to help pay for their travel and lodging while in the Cody-Powell area.

                  Heart Mountain has assembled a faculty that includes leading scholars of the Japanese American incarceration and members of the foundation staff, including Interim Executive Director Aura Sunada Newlin, who is a descendant of Heart Mountain incarcerees.

                  The program places the incarceration that forced 14,000 people of Japanese ancestry behind barbed wire at Heart Mountain into the larger context of mistreatment of ethnic and ideological minorities in the American West, starting with the area’s Native American nations, Chinese immigrants in southern Wyoming, and German immigrants in Montana.

                  Interested educators can learn more about and find applications on the Heart Mountain website at

                  https://sites.google.com/heartmountain.org/hmwf-workshops/home

                  and the NEH website at

                  https://www.neh.gov/programinstitutefellowship/echoes-history-mistreatment-and-incarceration-american-west
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                  Please refer to our CORONAVIRUS PAGE for up-to-date information on current safety policies & protocols at the interpretive center. Masks are encouraged but not required while inside the interpretive center.

                  SUMMER HOURS
                  May 16 to October 8
                  Open DAILY 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

                  WINTER HOURS
                  October 9 to May 15
                  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 $12
                  Senior/Students $10
                  Under 12 Free
                  Special Group Rates

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                  Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation · 17 hours ago
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                  Japanese Americans endured terrible food during the first months of their incarceration and anything that resembled what they used to eat was cherished. #OTD in 1942 the @manzanarcomm Free Press published this story about the name of the new shoyu made in camp. 1/2 https://t.co/BSTVDAHYql
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                  Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation · 20 hours ago
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                  We’re now accepting applications to participate in our 2023 workshops for educators sponsored by @NEH_Education. What a great way to learn about the Japanese American at a site where it happened. #NCSS2022 @ncss
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                  Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation · 2 days ago
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                  By the this time in 1944, the death toll among Japanese American soldiers was well known in the various WRA camps. #OTD the @topazmuseum Times published this story about memorial services throughout camp for the former incarcerees who died fighting in Europe. https://t.co/LHZkZG9U35
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                  Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation · 3 days ago
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                  It's time! Applications for our 2023 @NEH_Education Landmarks of American History and Culture workshops -- Echoes of History: Mistreatment and Incarceration in the American West -- are open now. See here for more details:
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                  Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation · 3 days ago
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                  The @HeartMountainWY draft resisters are the best known among those who resisted, but in @topazmuseum, Sock Yoshida and his brothers also resisted. He later served during the Korean War and was a high-level judo instructor. RIP, Sock.
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                  Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation · 3 days ago
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                  Hiroshi “Hershey” Miyamura thought he was just doing his job when he killed 50 Chinese troops in a firefight in Seoul. He set a standard for courage that earned him the Medal of Honor. We honor his life and memory.
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