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.
It will be the first in a three-year series of workshops and public events sponsored by the program, which is named after Mineta, a former Cabinet secretary and U.S. representative who was incarcerated as a child at Heart Mountain during World War II.
Twenty-five grade 7-12 Wyoming educators will be selected to participate in Exiled to the Rockies: Japanese American Incarceration During World War II, which will be led by Heart Mountain staff and outside experts. The workshop will also coincide with a gathering of partners in the JACE program from incarceration sites in Colorado, Idaho, Montana and Utah. Lunch will be provided for all participants, and a $125 travel stiped is available for those who must travel long distances to attend.
Heart Mountain was one of three recipients of a JACE grant. HMWF will use the funds for the three-year program to conduct training workshops for K-12 teachers around the country, lead seminars on professional identity and ethics for graduate students in law, business, and journalism, and launch the Legacies of Incarcerated Nikkei Connect (LINC) online platform.
This latest workshop follows Heart Mountain’s successful participation in the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Landmarks of American History and Culture workshop series for four straight years. Museum Educator Sybil Kawano, a veteran of the NEH workshop program, will direct the workshop.
Interested educators can find the application here. The deadline for applications is March 14.