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

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 · 4d

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 · 6d

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 · 7d

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 · 8d

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 · 15d

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 · 16d

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 · 21d

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 · 22d

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 · 22d

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 · 24d

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 · 24d

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 · 25d

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 · 26d

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 · 27d

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

Board member and Heart Mountain legend Takashi Hoshizaki turns 100 on October 3. We're honoring his legacy of service to the nation and Japanese American community with this birthday campaign. See more here:
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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...

www.heartmountain.org

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

A new National Park Service grant will enable us to create educational programming in collaboration with four Rocky Mountain confinement sites. We'll conduct events and teacher workshops and launch our new LINC database. See more here:
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Major NPS Grant Will Boost Collaboration with Rocky Mountain Sites - Heart Mountain

The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation (HMWF) has received a $776,775 grant from the National Park Service for Exiled to the Rockies: Japanese American Incarceration During World War II, a program that...

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

It's been great to host Christine Ogura, the superintendent of the Honouliuli National Historic Site in Hawaii. We're sharing information and ideas about how to tell the story of the Japanese American incarceration in Hawaii and Wyoming.

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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · Sep 13

Thanks to the Wyoming Semiquincentennial Planning Task Force, we have a $25,000 grant to bring David Ono's Defining Courage to our July 2026 Pilgrimage. Thanks to David, Ann Burroughs of @jamuseum.bsky.social and our partners in Wyoming for making this happen.
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Grant Will Bring Defining Courage Production to Heart Mountain to Celebrate America 250 - Heart Mountain

A $25,000 grant from the Wyoming Semiquincentennial Planning Task Force will enable the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation to bring Defining Courage, an immersive live event about Japanese American sol...

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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · Sep 13

NHK World came to our July pilgrimage and captured the work of Sam Mihara, the NEH Jefferson Lecturer for this year. Incarcerated as a child at Heart Mountain, Sam's new career is speaking about the Japanese American incarceration.
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WWII internment camps: A Japanese American story | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News

A 92-year-old survivor of internment travels the US recounting how Japanese Americans were stripped of their rights during World War Two. He urges people to remember the past and defend freedom and ju...

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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · Sep 11

Gentrification and rising rents are changing the nature of Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo, which was home to many Japanese Americans who were incarcerated at Heart Mountain. A group of local businesses are fighting back.
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Japanese American elders in Little Tokyo want to stop gentrification. So they’re buying buildings

“If you don't own the property, then you can't control what happens there.”

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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · Sep 10

Superintendent Christine Ogura is bursting with ideas to tell the history of Hawaii’s Honouliuli National Historic Site. It was a camp that held hundreds of Hawaii Japanese Americans during World War II. We were lucky to visit the site last year.
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Honouliuli superintendent Ogura visits Seattle, building ties for park’s next chapter

Christine Ogura, superintendent of Honouliuli National Historic Site (HNHS) in Hawai’i, traveled through the Seattle area earlier this month as the World War II incarceration site she oversees comm…

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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation @heartmountain.bsky.social · Sep 5

We're proud of Sam Mihara and Lance Ito for keeping the story of Heart Mountain and the Japanese American incarceration alive. See more in this @CBSNews piece by Ian Lee, who joined our pilgrimage in July.
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Japanese internment camp survivor reflects on the painful history of Heart Mountain: "We were denied liberty"

Sam Mihara was 9 years old when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Eight months later, the government uprooted his family from San Francisco and forced them to move into prison barracks at the Heart Mountain ...

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