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: www.heartmountain.org/a-century-of...

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: www.heartmountain.org/major-nps-gr...

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.

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. www.heartmountain.org/grant-will-b...

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. www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

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. lapublicpress.org/2025/09/la-j...

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. nwasianweekly.com/2025/09/hono...

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. www.cbsnews.com/news/japanes...

Support from the Amistad Research Center was critical in our publication of Angels of War, Mark Cotta Vaz’ history of the all-Black 761st Tank Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. We’re glad they have received vital support from the Mellon Foundation. www.nola.com/news/educati...

Of the 180 Japanese Americans who died at Heart Mountain during World War II, the remains of all but three returned home. The remaining three are at Powell's Crown Hill Cemetery, where Johnny Tim Yellowtail and Haruka Takaku care for their graves. www.powelltribune.com/stories/we-w...

Almost 500 Heart Mountain incarcerees left camp for jobs at Seabrook Farms in New Jersey, where they met thousands of other Japanese Americans who were incarcerated. This new book in our store tells the other side of the Seabrook story. Find it in our store: shopheartmountain.org/products/the...

We’re proud that Takashi Hoshizaki, our soon-to-be 100-year-old board member, joined the Day of Action at JANM Saturday to speak about the need to tell accurate history without government interference. www.pacificcitizen.org/jacl-urges-p...

Barbara Marshall Williams received the 2023 LaDonna Zall Compassionate Witness Award for her family's support of Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II. She's featured in this new Japanese News Network documentary. Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR5d...

We're wishing a very happy birthday to board member and dedicated volunteer Kathleen Saito Yuille, born on this day in Heart Mountain.

We were honored to host Duncan Ryuken Williams and the Ireicho project during our pilgrimage last month. It helps so many Japanese Americans discover their history. www.kcra.com/article/irei...

Glenn Potter-Takata is a Heart Mountain descendant and media designer and artist working in performance. He took a break from his Ucross Foundation fellowship to research draft resisters in our LaDonna Zall Research Room.

Join the National Parks Conservation Association for a Day of Action on Aug. 23 to call attention to attempts to whitewash history and cut critical @NatlParkService funding. This is our legacy. We need to protect it. See more information here: www.npca.org/campaigns/da...

The sacrifices made by Japanese American veterans go beyond World War II. Takeshi Furumoto, who was born in Tule Lake, remains scarred by his experiences during Vietnam. He's not alone. japan-forward.com/enduring-tra...

It's impossible to remove race from the history of the Japanese American incarceration, since it was the direct result of racism. We tell our history fairly and objectively and without government interference. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/a...

This is another example why Heart Mountain is a private institution. We didn't want our telling of history to be subject to the whims of any administration. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

Thanks to the hard work of former Heart Mountain incarceree Norman Mineta and thousands of Japanese American activists, President Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act on this day in 1988. Each surviving incarceree received $20,000 and a formal apology from the U.S. government.

Thanks to Rei Nakafuji of Nikkei for visiting our pilgrimage and producing this detailed report on Heart Mountain, Sam Mihara and the lessons of history we're trying to share with a wider audience around the world. www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...

Shuko Yoshikami was a child when he and his family were incarcerated at Heart Mountain. He returned this year for our annual pilgrimage and shared his experiences with the Cody Enterprise. www.codyenterprise.com/news/people/...

Thousands of Heart Mountain incarcerees traced their roots to Hiroshima, so the atomic bombing of that city 80 years ago today hit many still in camp especially hard.

Japan's NHK News came to our pilgrimage this year to tell the story of Sam Mihara, who was incarcerated as a child at Heart Mountain and went on to be a rocket scientist and dedicated historian of the Japanese American incarceration. See their report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1NkML...

In The Poet and the Silk Girl, Dr. Satsuki Ina navigates the complicated decisions facing her parents, who answered No to both critical questions on the 1943 loyalty questionnaire and spent years in legal limbo. Find it here on our online store: shopheartmountain.org/products/the...

Funding from the Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) program of the National Park Service is restoring our historic root cellar. That money supports workers from Wyoming and Montana and buys supplies from local companies. See the changes from 2022 to today.

Japanese Americans threatened with incarceration found refuge at Keetley Farm in Wasatch County. Here their stories: kmyu.tv/news/local/j...

Here are four books for kids that help explain more about the Japanese American incarceration. The lessons learned from this history are more valuable today than ever. densho.org/catalyst/sum...

Starting August. 27, check out Marina Berio's Ten Photography Lessons for a Dead President at RISE Rockway. We've already sold out of this great piece and are ordering more. See here for more information: www.riserockaway.org/rise/events/

Thanks to support from the Mellon Foundation and other generous donors, we expanded our collections system. The LaDonna Zall collections wing holds records and artifacts, including Tokinobu Mihara's Braille board and Al Simpson's Wyoming hat. Come visit us and learn more.

Has it been a week already since the Heart Mountain Pilgrimage? Thanks to everyone who joined us for this great event. www.heartmountain.org/awards-tribu...

We’re pushing ahead with the magic of the Mineta-Simpson Institute with two critical additions to our board — Sue Simpson Gallagher and David Mineta. Sue’s in black on the right, while Dave’s in plaid in the left of the back row. We’re so lucky to have them join us.

We're proud of everything Pete and Lynne Simpson have done for higher education and civility in Wyoming. A new UW fund honors their lives in service of Wyoming. Happy 95th birthday, Pete! www.uwyo.edu/news/2025/07...

Along with running a world-class museum, Heart Mountain publishes a variety of excellent books about the Japanese American incarceration. Visitors to our pilgrimage last week lined up to buy more. See them here: shopheartmountain.org

The @PowellTribune has always covered the Heart Mountain incarceration site and Foundation fairly. We appreciate the dedicated work of Mark Davis to report on and photograph our latest pilgrimage. www.powelltribune.com/stories/tear...

Anne and Bill Okubo attended their first Heart Mountain pilgrimage this weekend and visited the part of our exhibit dedicated to their father -- Medal of Honor recipient James Okubo, a medic for the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Thanks for joining us and sharing your stories.

Alan Simpson was an inspiration for us, because he showed how people of differing opinions can work together. In today's @nytimes, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich discusses Al's impact: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/m...

Our 2025 Pilgrimage is off to a great start. Visitors signed the Irei book created by Professor Duncan Williams, toured the hospital site with Sam Mihara and participated in a meeting of former incarcerees and their families.

It's the start of the Heart Mountain Pilgrimage! Operations Director Logan Christie talks with returning incarceree Shuko Yoshikami at the check-in. We're preparing the silent auction and have a wide selection of merchandise available.

Our continued operations and success come from our dedicated members and supporters. Thanks to all of you, we raised $84,472 from 152 donors during the July 16 #WyoGives challenge. Thanks to Sam Mihara for his 3-to-1 match.

In the Shadow of Heart Mountain follows Frank T. Inouye from his childhood in the Little Tokyo neighborhood of Los Angeles to Heart Mountain, where he led the first resistance movement. Get it out now at our online store: shopheartmountain.org/collections/...

It’s here! In the Shadow of Heart Mountain, the memoirs of Frank T. Inouye, activist and educator, is now for sale in our museum store and will be featured at our upcoming pilgrimage. Elijah Cook, our Curtis Ando intern, is creating the store display.

Thanks to Smithsonian Affiliates, we collaborated with the Heinz History Center to publish In the Shadow of Heart Mountain, the memoirs of activist and educator Frank T. Inouye, a leader of the resistance to the wartime incarceration at Heart Mountain. Center CEO Andy Masich likes his copy!

We're opening our morning program on Friday, July 25, to the public to allow all to see our new Hello Maggie! animated film and our digital storytelling documentary, Heart Mountain Voices. Come join us! See more here: www.heartmountain.org/heart-mounta...

Thank you so much to everyone who donated yesterday for #WyoGives! We so appreciate your generous support and hope to see you onsite at the museum this summer.

Thanks to your generous support, we're at the top of the #WyoGives leaderboard. Every bit helps as we continue our work to preserve the history of the Japanese American incarceration. www.wyogives.org/organization...

Sam Mihara is committed to telling the story of his incarceration at Heart Mountain to ensure the injustices faced by over 125,000 Japanese Americans during WWII are never forgotten. He's giving back again during today's #WyoGives with a $50,000 3:1 matching gift. www.wyogives.org/organization...

Executive Director Aura Sunada Newlin describes the work done by the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation to spread the word of the Japanese American incarceration. It's worth a listen! www.ypradio.org/show/resound...

Support us tomorrow during the 24 hour day of giving #WyoGives! www.wyogives.org/organization...