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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · 22h

We join the Manzanar Committee in mourning the loss of Professor Art Hansen. He was a leader in bringing the story of the Japanese American incarceration to a wider audience, particularly the histories of the draft resisters.
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Remembering Professor Art Hansen (October 10, 1938 – October 30, 2025)

By Glen Kitayama The Manzanar Committee mourns the loss of Art Hansen, Emeritus Professor of History and Asian American Studies at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF). Professor Hansen is…

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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · 1d

Next year, we'll lead Educators in Exchange: Bridging US-Japan Education on Japanese American Incarceration with Japanese universities and museums thanks to a grant from The Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation and led by Sybil Kawano and Haruka Takaku.

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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Board Chair Shirley Ann Higuchi for receiving the Japanese Ambassador’s Commendation for her work in the Washington legal community and for helping build U.S.-Japan relations.

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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · 1d

We’re proud of Dr. Takashi Hoshizaki, the latest recipient of Japan’s Order of the Rising Sun for his work improving Japan-U.S. ties. Four other Heart Mountain incarcerees have received the honor.

Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · 3d

We agree with Gail Symons: The heart of Wyoming beats strongest when we confront our history squarely, Thanks for visiting us.
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Gail Symons: Heart Mountain -- What Wyoming Should Remember

Columnist Gail Symons writes, "Heart Mountain was one of ten incarceration camps where more than 14,000 Japanese Americans were held during World War II.…

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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · 6d

Want to see Sam Mihara’s Memories of Injustice, his
National Endowment for the Humanities Jefferson Lecture presentation? Join him at 12:30 pm on Nov. 13 on Zoom, courtesy of the National Association of Japanese American Societies. See more information here:

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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · 7d

Jimmie Morinaga was a teenager when his family was forced from their home into Tule Lake and then Heart Mountain. After the war, he created a successful farm.
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Jimmie Morinaga Obituary (1929 - 2025) - Ontario, OR - Argus Observer

View Jimmie Morinaga's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · 9d

Cultural institutions that tell uncomfortable truths about the American experience are under threat. We support the Japanese American National Museum and others in their valuable work.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/a...

Facing Funding Cuts and Censorship Threats, Museums Band Together

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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · 12d

The constitutional concerns raised by the Korematsu case about unchecked presidential power remain valid today.
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What the Japanese internment case teaches about judicial deference to presidential power

Long-ago debates about executive authority are not as distant as they might initially seem.

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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · 16d

Christine Shikuma Castillo's grandfather, Shigeru Oba, helped create the Heart Mountain ice rink. Now she's back in Cody training figure skaters.
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Cody Woman Teaches Ice Skating Decades After Grandfather Built Heart Mountain Rink

Christine Castillo's grandfather was one of about 14,000 Japanese Americans relocated to the Heart Mountain internment center, where he shared his love…

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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · 18d

Museums that tell the history of the Japanese American incarceration face multiple challenges. That's why it was so important for Executive Director Aura Sunada Newlin to meet with fellow museum leaders at the Western Museums Association recent gathering in Reno. We learned and shared a lot.

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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · 19d

Congratulations to Willie Ito, one of the creators of our new animated film Hello Maggie! for receiving a lifetime achievement award from the SPARK ANIMATION festival. He's been an animation leader for 70 years!
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Ito honored with lifetime achievement award

Willie Ito, who was incarcerated as a child at the Topaz, Utah, incarceration site for Japanese Americans during World War II, received a lifetime achievement award for his career in animation from…

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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · 20d

For as long as the federal government shutdown continues, we're offering free admission for current federal employees, effective immediately. This extends to family members living in the same household as the federal employee. Come visit us!

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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · 26d

Last week was a landmark for us. Sam Mihara presented his NEH Jefferson Lecture at the Japanese Information and Cultural Center, spoke to the BADC and we celebrated the 100th birthday of board member Takashi Hoshizaki, the sole remaining Heart Mountain draft resister.

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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · 28d

Barbara Uriu’s father, Kazuo, was incarcerated at Heart Mountain and remained in Wyoming to become one of the state’s most influential farmers. Barbara was a founding HMWF board member. She caught up with Aura Sunada Newlin at the Western Museums Association conference in Reno.

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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · Oct 4

We had a great 100th birthday celebration for Takashi Hoshizaki, a courageous WWII draft resister, Korean War veteran, civil rights leader and Heart Mountain board member. Here he's blowing out his candles with Shirley Ann Higuchi, our board chair. Happy birthday, Takashi!

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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · Oct 3

We're going to develop an exhibit in our restored root cellar thanks to a new grant from the National Park Service. It will allow us to celebrate the agricultural legacy of the incarcerated Heart Mountain farmers and enhance our educational programming.
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New Grant Will Enable the Creation of Root Cellar Exhibit - Heart Mountain

Heart Mountain’s restored root cellar will be the focus of a $338,883 grant from the National Park Service’s Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) program. The grant will support the development ...

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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · Oct 3

Join us to celebrate Takashi Hoshizaki's 100th birthday! He's the sole surviving Heart Mountain draft resister and a consistent fighter for civil rights. We're raising $100,000 for our continued operations during the month of October in honor of his legacy
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A Century of Takashi: Honoring 100 Years with $100,000 - Heart Mountain

Happy Birthday, Takashi! This October, we celebrate a rare and remarkable milestone, Takashi Hoshizaki’s 100th birthday! To honor Takashi’s extraordinary life, the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation is...

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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · Oct 1

The federal government may be shut down, but we aren’t. We’re an independent organization, because we didn’t want the government that forced 125,000 Japanese Americans into prison camps to tell our story. Plus, we‘re not affected when Congress can’t pass a budget. Come see us! www.heartmountain.org

National Historic Landmark - Heart Mountain WWII Japanese American

Heart Mountain WWII Japanese American Confinement Site: award-winning interpretive center & National Historic Landmark site.

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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · Sep 30

Sam Mihara is unstoppable. On Monday, he spoke to 600 students at the Bullis School in Potomac, Md., about his experiences as a child incarceree at Heart Mountain. He's spoken in person to more than 110,000 people.

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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · Sep 29

Haruka Takaku, our Japan Outreach Initiative coordinator, leads multiple sessions on Japanese culture at our site. In Milwaukee, residents there are learning more from their new JOI coordinator. It's a great program. www.milwaukeeindependent.com/articles/jap...

Japanese cultural program expands in Milwaukee from partnership with national outreach initiative | Milwaukee Independent

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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · Sep 29

Rock Springs, WY, is coming to grips with its history, which includes the 1885 massacre of Chinese immigrants. A new statue will mark the massacre's 140th anniversary.
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New monument commemorates tragic anti-immigrant chapter in Wyoming history

At a time when President Trump is going after foreign laborers in the U.S, and saying unflattering accounts of U.S. history should be removed, Rock Springs, Wyoming has put up a new monument to ethnic...

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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · Sep 27

Congratulations to our friends at Minidoka for starting their project to restore two barracks and preserve the memory of what happened there during World War II
www.ktvb.com/article/news...

Restoration project at Minidoka National Historic Site preserves Japanese American history

A major transformation is underway at the Minidoka National Historic Site.

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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · Sep 25

Linda Yamamoto Horikawa was two years old when her family was forced from their home in Cupertino and into Heart Mountain. It took a request from an 11-year-old neighbor to share her story in an award-winning podcast. Hear it here:
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NPR's middle school champion: A moving podcast about Japanese American incarceration

For the first time, NPR's Student Podcast Challenge has a returning champion: a California fifth grader who explored a dark chapter in U.S. history during World War II.

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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · Sep 24

Mary Murakami was 14 when she and her family were forced from their homes and into the Topaz incarceration site in Utah. At 98, she thinks today’s ICE raids disturbingly familiar.
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To a survivor of Japanese incarceration, ICE detentions feel painfully familiar

Mary Murakami was 14 years old when she was forcibly relocated and imprisoned during World War II. The Trump Administration's immigration enforcement actions resurface painful memories.

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