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Heart Mountain Interpretive Center19 hours ago

Start making your plans for the evening of February 4 now! Shirley Ann Higuchi, author of Setsuko's Secret, and Bradford Pearson, author of The Eagles of Heart Mountain, will discuss the history of Heart Mountain, the Japanese American incarceration and lessons learned while writing.

Join us for this free event!

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Heart Mountain Interpretive Center1 week ago

Photographers who documented WWII incarceration often posed Japanese Americans to visually construct a photo. This power to construct the image was heightened because the photographers were largely white and hired by the government, visiting the camps by choice and free to leave when they wanted.

In 1943, Ansel Adams visited Manzanar—not as a hired photographer but as a friend of the camp’s director—and captured this image of Joyce Okazaki with her mother and younger sister. “I told him, ‘I want to face the camera,’ and he said, ‘No, you’re going to face how I told you,’” she said years later. “So there I am with my back to the camera … that’s how he posed us.”

Adams wasn’t alone in constructing images to portray incarcerees as “good Americans.” But these photos don’t depict the real experiences of Japanese Americans during WWII.

Listen to Campu episode 4 to hear the stories—and voices—behind the photos >> https://densho.org/campu-cameras/

[Image description: Two young girls and their mother posing in front of a barrack in Manzanar. The mother stands in the middle smiling down at her younger daughter, and the older girl is looking up at her mother with her face turned away from the camera.]

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Heart Mountain Interpretive Center1 week ago

Check out these exciting programs on Sunday, January 17, brought to you by the Minidoka National Historic Site!

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Heart Mountain Interpretive Center1 week ago

Due to COVID budget restrictions, 2020's last issue of Kokoro Kara magazine won't be coming to your mailbox. But the latest news and articles you love are all online in a special digital-only edition, at https://bit.ly/3osvnDA. We'll be back in print for our upcoming Winter 2021 issue!

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Heart Mountain Interpretive Center2 weeks ago

HELP NEEDED: We are searching for descendants of the camp's veterinarian, "Doc" Minol Ota. As a Wyoming native, Doc wasn't incarcerated during the war, but was hired by the government to look after Heart Mountain's livestock.

After the camp closed, Doc Ota settled in nearby Lovell, where he set up a practice and coached the local baseball team. Several years later, he moved to San Jose.

If you are related to Doc, or know someone who is, please send us a message via Facebook or by email to dakota@heartmountain.org.

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Interpretive Center

Please refer to our CORONAVIRUS PAGE for up-to-date information on current safety policies & protocols at the interpretive center. Masks are required when visiting the interpretive center.

SUMMER HOURS
May 15 to October 1
Open DAILY 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

WINTER HOURS
October 2 to May 14
Open Wednesday – Saturday: 10:00 am – 4:00 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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3 hours ago
1921 was the high point for Nisei births in the United States. This excellent @DenshoProject article highlights some of those who would have turned 100 this year, including @HeartMountainWY incarceree S. Neil Fujita, a prominent artist.
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4 hours ago
The Eagles of Heart Mountain gave hope to a community of people who were incarcerated because of where they or their parents had been born. The new book by @BradfordPearson is essential reading.
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22 hours ago
Start making your plans for the night of Feb. 4 now. @HiguchiJD, author of Setsuko's Secret, and @BradfordPearson, author of The Eagles of Heart Mountain, will discuss the history of Heart Mountain, the Japanese American incarceration and lessons learned while writing. https://t.co/dxdigxa2RL

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1 day ago
The weather at @HeartMountainWY was often brutally cold and accompanied by high winds. #OTD in 1943, Dr. Charles Irwin, the camp's chief doctor, issued these recommendations for how to deal with frostbite. https://t.co/M3nvev5Drj

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1 day ago
White supremacist mobs have always existed in this country. Fear of them turning on Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor was one of many excuses used to justify the incarceration of 120,000 people without trial.
https://t.co/pXtxZY6Eaq

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1 day ago
So-called “patriotic education” is what kept discussion of the Japanese American incarceration and other abuses of the rights of non-white Americans under wraps for decades. @historyed @NCSSNetwork @EDSITEment @NEH_Education @NEHgov
https://t.co/wFmoF7V9Ct

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