Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation
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We share the history of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II at the site where 14,000 people were unjustly imprisoned between August 1942 and November 1945. See more at www.heartmountain.org
Join Executive Director Aura Sunada Newlin and shakuhachi flute maestro Michael Chikuzen Gould at the Lakewood, Ohio, Public Library tomorrow for two events. Cleveland was a refuge for Japanese Americans during World War II. See more details here:
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The Heart Mountain Residency: Special Presentations | Lakewood Public Library
Dr. Aura Sunada Newlin and Michael Chikuzen Gould will be conducting a residency at the Library exploring the history of Japanese American wartime experiences and celebrating Japanese arts and culture...
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January 30, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Join Executive Director Aura Sunada Newlin and shakuhachi flute maestro Michael Chikuzen Gould at the Lakewood, Ohio, Public Library tomorrow for two events. Cleveland was a refuge for Japanese Americans during World War II. See more details here:
www.lakewoodpubliclibrary.org/heart-mounta...
www.lakewoodpubliclibrary.org/heart-mounta...
Anyone in the Ann Arbor, Michigan, area should check out Shirley Ann Higuchi, our board chair at the University of Michigan Law School with Karen Korematsu of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute for Fred Korematsu Day. The event is at 11:50 a.m., Friday, Jan. 30 in Jeffries Hall 1020.
January 22, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Anyone in the Ann Arbor, Michigan, area should check out Shirley Ann Higuchi, our board chair at the University of Michigan Law School with Karen Korematsu of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute for Fred Korematsu Day. The event is at 11:50 a.m., Friday, Jan. 30 in Jeffries Hall 1020.
Miyo Koba was a teenager when she and her family were forced from their home in Toppenish, WA, and incarcerated at Heart Mountain. She spent most of the rest of her 101 years in Moses Lake, WA.
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Miyo Koba
Miyo Koba passed away peacefully on January 1, 2026, at Samaritan Hospital, with family at her side. Miyo lived most of her 101 years in Moses Lake, Wash. She was born in Toppenish, Wash., where her p...
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January 6, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Miyo Koba was a teenager when she and her family were forced from their home in Toppenish, WA, and incarcerated at Heart Mountain. She spent most of the rest of her 101 years in Moses Lake, WA.
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Join us at 1 p.m. Saturday for our New Year mochi pounding session with Haruka Takaku. It's an annual tradition. Mochi makers at Heart Mountain during World War II helped preserve the morale of the camp's incarcerees. Learn more about this vital of history here: www.heartmountain.org/2026-winter-...
2026 Winter Program Series - Heart Mountain
Join us for an expanded series of events from early December 2025 through late April 2026! This year’s Winter Program Series features hands-on workshops led by our Japan Outreach Initiative (JOI) Coor...
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January 5, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Join us at 1 p.m. Saturday for our New Year mochi pounding session with Haruka Takaku. It's an annual tradition. Mochi makers at Heart Mountain during World War II helped preserve the morale of the camp's incarcerees. Learn more about this vital of history here: www.heartmountain.org/2026-winter-...
Removing history books from National Park Service bookstores limits the availability of honest accounts of American history.
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What will Grand Teton’s shops purge under anti-DEI order? - KHOL 89.1 FM
The Trump administration deadline to “review and remove” has passed with shops closed for the season.
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December 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Removing history books from National Park Service bookstores limits the availability of honest accounts of American history.
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We look forward to having you visit us during this holiday season, but we will be closed on Dec. 25-25 and Jan. 1. Please plan accordingly, and we hope to see you soon.
December 23, 2025 at 2:06 AM
We look forward to having you visit us during this holiday season, but we will be closed on Dec. 25-25 and Jan. 1. Please plan accordingly, and we hope to see you soon.
We're working hard to get title to the land upon which our historic hospital and chimney sit, so we can upgrade the buildings and create new permanent exhibits.
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Heart Mountain site preservation faces ongoing challenges – AsAmNews
After four vandalism incidents in two months, preservation efforts at the Heart Mountain incarceration site face high costs and ongoing challenges.
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December 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
We're working hard to get title to the land upon which our historic hospital and chimney sit, so we can upgrade the buildings and create new permanent exhibits.
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We’re proud of the accomplishments of the Powell HS students in our Smithsonian Democracy in Dialogue program. It’s another example of how our Smithsonian affiliation serves our community.
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Powell students participate in democracy program at Heart Mountain Center
Six Powell High School students examined the role their community played during the 250 years of the American experience in a program at the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center this fall.
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December 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
We’re proud of the accomplishments of the Powell HS students in our Smithsonian Democracy in Dialogue program. It’s another example of how our Smithsonian affiliation serves our community.
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A group of 60 people joined Eric Muller, Judge Kelly Higashi and Gerald Yamada for a tour of the National Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism in Washington Saturday to learn about the legal history of World War II incarceration.
December 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
A group of 60 people joined Eric Muller, Judge Kelly Higashi and Gerald Yamada for a tour of the National Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism in Washington Saturday to learn about the legal history of World War II incarceration.
Heart Mountain: The History of an American Concentration Camp by Douglas W. Nelson is now available for sale on Amazon in hardcover, paperback and Kindle. Check it out here:
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Heart Mountain: The History of An American Concentration Camp
Heart Mountain: The History of An American Concentration Camp [Nelson, Douglas, Mineta, Norman, Mineta, Norman] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Heart Mountain: The History of An American Concentration Camp
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December 5, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Heart Mountain: The History of an American Concentration Camp by Douglas W. Nelson is now available for sale on Amazon in hardcover, paperback and Kindle. Check it out here:
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If you're an educator interested in learning about how to teach about the Japanese American incarceration, check out the application for our new Maurice Walk Memorial workshops June 14-19, 2026 at Heart Mountain. It will be a great week.
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Educator Workshops Welcome & Overview - Heart Mountain
Introduction Within months of the December 7, 1941, surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, more than 110,000 people of Japanese descent, two-thirds of them native-born U.S. citizens, were forced from their ...
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December 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
If you're an educator interested in learning about how to teach about the Japanese American incarceration, check out the application for our new Maurice Walk Memorial workshops June 14-19, 2026 at Heart Mountain. It will be a great week.
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We're at the annual Teaching Primary Sources convention at the @librarycongress to learn how to teach our history better and to use more primary sources. It's great to be here.
December 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
We're at the annual Teaching Primary Sources convention at the @librarycongress to learn how to teach our history better and to use more primary sources. It's great to be here.
On this Giving Tuesday, please consider donating to the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation. Your donation will help us continue to tell the story of the Japanese American incarceration at Heart Mountain.
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Donate - Heart Mountain
Donate to the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation or the Memory & Justice Endowment Fund to ensure our future.
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December 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
On this Giving Tuesday, please consider donating to the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation. Your donation will help us continue to tell the story of the Japanese American incarceration at Heart Mountain.
www.heartmountain.org/donate/?utm_...
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It's Cyber Monday, so look no further than the Heart Mountain store. We've got classic books, like Setsuko's Secret by Shirley Ann Higuchi, Heart Mountain by Douglas Nelson and In the Shadow of Heart Mountain by Frank T. Inouye. Check it out here:
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Catalog
Make donations, begin or renew your membership, or browse the HMWF Store catalogue, which highlights media about Japanese American incarceration by former incarcerees and their descendants as well as ...
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December 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It's Cyber Monday, so look no further than the Heart Mountain store. We've got classic books, like Setsuko's Secret by Shirley Ann Higuchi, Heart Mountain by Douglas Nelson and In the Shadow of Heart Mountain by Frank T. Inouye. Check it out here:
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Japanese Americans know better than most people about the corrosive effects of scapegoating immigrants.
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Haunted by History, Japanese Americans Fight Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
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December 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Japanese Americans know better than most people about the corrosive effects of scapegoating immigrants.
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Carolyn Takeshita was one of the leaders of the committee that created our permanent exhibit. She passed away at age 88 on Nov. 23. We mourn her loss and honor her contributions. www.monarchsociety.com/obituary/car...
Obituary for Carolyn K. Takeshita at Monarch Society
In Loving Memory. Carolyns obituary is unavailable, but please go in and sign her guestbook.
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November 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Carolyn Takeshita was one of the leaders of the committee that created our permanent exhibit. She passed away at age 88 on Nov. 23. We mourn her loss and honor her contributions. www.monarchsociety.com/obituary/car...
Shop our store for The Spinach King, John Seabrook’s account of his grandfather, the founder of Seabrook Farms, the New Jersey farm where hundreds of incarcerated Japanese Americans found work during World War II. It’s a New York Times top 100 book of the year.
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The Spinach King
They say behind every great fortune there is a great crime. At Seabrook Farms, the troubling American histories of race, immigration, and exploitation arise like weeds from the soil. Great Migration B...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Shop our store for The Spinach King, John Seabrook’s account of his grandfather, the founder of Seabrook Farms, the New Jersey farm where hundreds of incarcerated Japanese Americans found work during World War II. It’s a New York Times top 100 book of the year.
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Executive director Aura Newlin and JOI coordinator Haruka Takaku toured Laramie's High Iron rail car exhibit with the project's creator Aubrey Edwards and Aura's sister Lena, who developed the section about their grandfather George Sunada's firing from the Union Pacific railroad.
November 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Executive director Aura Newlin and JOI coordinator Haruka Takaku toured Laramie's High Iron rail car exhibit with the project's creator Aubrey Edwards and Aura's sister Lena, who developed the section about their grandfather George Sunada's firing from the Union Pacific railroad.
Congratulations to Heart Mountain Board Chair Shirley Ann Higuchi, the recipient of the Japanese Ambassador's Commendation for her leadership in the DC legal community. She's here with Minister Kyoichiro Kawakami, Counselor Kentaro Orita and First Secretary Ryoko Nakanishi.
November 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Congratulations to Heart Mountain Board Chair Shirley Ann Higuchi, the recipient of the Japanese Ambassador's Commendation for her leadership in the DC legal community. She's here with Minister Kyoichiro Kawakami, Counselor Kentaro Orita and First Secretary Ryoko Nakanishi.
We've been trying to gain title to the historic hospital buildings from the federal government for years. Vandalism such as this threatens their future.
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Vandalism Damages Historic Heart Mountain Building - Heart Mountain
Over the past two months, the historic hospital at the Heart Mountain National Historic Landmark has experienced four separate incidents of vandalism. The federally owned buildings were most recently ...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
We've been trying to gain title to the historic hospital buildings from the federal government for years. Vandalism such as this threatens their future.
www.heartmountain.org/vandalism-da...
www.heartmountain.org/vandalism-da...
Thanks to the Mellon Foundation, we were able to build the Mineta-Simpson Institute, which is dedicated to amplifying the examples set by Norman Mineta and Alan Simpson in public service. They first met behind the barbed wire at Heart Mountain.
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Two Boys Bonded in a Japanese Incarceration Camp. Their Friendship Changed Everything.
A Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation grant story from the Mellon Foundation.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Thanks to the Mellon Foundation, we were able to build the Mineta-Simpson Institute, which is dedicated to amplifying the examples set by Norman Mineta and Alan Simpson in public service. They first met behind the barbed wire at Heart Mountain.
www.mellon.org/grant-story/...
www.mellon.org/grant-story/...
Sarah Mattox worked with the diaries of Heart Mountain incarceree Kara Kondo to create the Heart Mountain Suite. Learn more about the Whatcom Chorale's upcoming performance this weekend.
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Whatcom Chorale pays tribute to the 'unbroken spirit' of 120K Japanese Americans | Cascadia Daily News
'Lest We Forget' (Nov. 22–23) includes a reprisal of Sarah Mattox's 'Heart Mountain Suite'
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November 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Sarah Mattox worked with the diaries of Heart Mountain incarceree Kara Kondo to create the Heart Mountain Suite. Learn more about the Whatcom Chorale's upcoming performance this weekend.
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We agree with World Atlas: Cody is an overlooked gem of the Rockies. Come visit us and see the rest of Cody, too, such as the Buffalo Bill Center of the West and historic Irma Hotel.
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8 of the Most Overlooked Towns in the Rockies
The Rockies stretch over 3,000 miles, offering adventures, hot springs, Northern Lights, and charming towns for all seeking nature's beauty.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
We agree with World Atlas: Cody is an overlooked gem of the Rockies. Come visit us and see the rest of Cody, too, such as the Buffalo Bill Center of the West and historic Irma Hotel.
www.worldatlas.com/cities/8-of-...
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Eighty-three years after he and his family were incarcerated at Heart Mountain, Mike Hosokawa returns for this poignant remembrance thanks to the Mellon Foundation.
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“I Didn’t Think I’d See It Again”: Survivors and Descendants Return to Site of Japanese Incarceration Camp
Three families of survivors and descendants gather at the former site of a Japanese incarceration camp in Wyoming to remember their descendants.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Eighty-three years after he and his family were incarcerated at Heart Mountain, Mike Hosokawa returns for this poignant remembrance thanks to the Mellon Foundation.
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Join Aura Sunada Newlin and Haruka Takaku at 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18 at UW's Scarlett Auditorium for Joy at Heart Mountain, a panel about building connections and reclaiming culture. We're dedicated to bringing people from all parts of life.
November 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Join Aura Sunada Newlin and Haruka Takaku at 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18 at UW's Scarlett Auditorium for Joy at Heart Mountain, a panel about building connections and reclaiming culture. We're dedicated to bringing people from all parts of life.