Heart Mountain press releases include announcements about upcoming events, new exhibits, general news about the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation and the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center, and other important information.
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Read through recent and past Heart Mountain press releases below:
Warehousing Suspected Undocumented Immigrants Echoes Wartime Incarceration
At the outset of World War II, the US government hastily constructed vast camps across the country to incarcerate, without any due process, more than 125,000 U.S. citizens and aliens of Japanese descent. In 1988, Congress passed a law signed by Ronald Reagan that apologized for the unwarranted hardship, trauma and unjust violation of rights endured by the Japanese Americans sent to those camps. Alarmingly, it appears that our government may be embarking on a mass incarceration plan that we might also deeply regret one day.
Heart Mountain Pilgrimage Registration Opens March 1
Early registration for the July 23-25 Heart Mountain Pilgrimage, which will feature a performance of David Ono’s Defining Courage, will open to the public on March 1.
Kathleen Saito Yuille to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award
Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation board member Kathleen Saito Yuille, who was born behind barbed wire in the camp hospital, will receive the Douglas Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award during the Heart Mountain Pilgrimage July 23-25.
Heart Mountain Opens We the People: Exploring American Identity Exhibit
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation announces a new exhibit examining American identity through the experiences of Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II. Despite unjust confinement, the 14,000 Heart Mountain incarcerees built vibrant lives, blending familiar American traditions with Japanese cultural practices. Through artifacts and testimony, the exhibit invites visitors to reconsider what it means to be American.
Proposed Budget Amendments Needlessly Hurt Wyoming’s Cultural Institutions
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation joins other cultural institutions in the state opposing the proposed state budget amendments to strip $10 million from the Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund.
Heart Mountain Offers Next Curtis Ando Internship for Park County Students
Curtis Ando was the son of a Japanese American incarceree from Heart Mountain and a farmer who was one of the few Japanese Americans who lived in Park County, Wyoming, before the war. After graduating from Powell High School, where he was a basketball and football star, Curtis joined the Marines.
Heart Mountain to Conduct First JACE Educator Workshop in April
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation will conduct a day-long workshop on Saturday, April 4 for Wyoming educators about the Japanese American incarceration as part of the Norman Y. Mineta Japanese American Confinement Education (JACE) program of the National Park Service.
Heart Mountain Grateful for Senators’ Help on Land Transfer
Representatives of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation met this week with Wyoming’s senators to help expedite the transfer of the property where the site’s historic hospital buildings are located to the foundation from the federal government.
Heart Mountain Hosts Mimosas with Mirikitani Event on January 17
As part of its current special exhibit, the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation will be holding a screening of The Cats of Mirikitani, a documentary film about the life of artist and incarceree Jimmy Mirikitani, on Saturday, January 17, at the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center.”
