The Winter Program Series returns!
Learn more about the presentations in our 2019 Winter Program Series on our events page
SAVE THE DATE!
The 2019 Heart Mountain Pilgrimage will be July 25-27, 2019
More info on our Pilgrimage page
Our special exhibit "The Mountain Was Our Secret: Works by Estelle Ishigo" is in its final weeks on display.
Don't miss your last chance to see this incredible collection of art!
Click here for more info on our Temporary Exhibits page
Exhibit closes January 12, 2019
CBS Sunday Morning visited Heart Mountain this summer to speak with Norm Mineta and Al Simpson about their friendship that was formed as boy scouts on both sides of the Heart Mountain fence. Capturing interviews and footage of our 2018 Pilgrimage, this is a great segment.
Watch the full piece here
"Bush Redressed Heart Mountain Wrongs"
-The Billings Gazette
"Forty-five years after World War II, the U.S. government did the right thing and apologized for its wartime abuse of civil liberties. Every president isn’t perfect, but President Bush embodied true leadership by maintaining a sense of political decency and decorum."
Chair Shirley Ann Higuchi reflects on President George H.W. Bush's contributions to Japanese American redress
"After the war, when the incarceration of Japanese Americans was deemed one of the worst human-rights violations in U.S. history, the government eliminated the question about nations of birth and vowed to keep the information confidential. Not anymore."
"As I look at where my family has gone since my grandparents moved here, I see a quintessentially American story that would have been lost if we had been denied citizenship."
This summer, the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation broke ground on an exciting new project. With the help of a Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant from the National Park Service, we began the first phase of restoration on root cellar. While the grant will cover much of the cost of this project, we need to complete the work. We are now working to raise $65,000 to complete this critical first phase of our grant obligations.
The root cellar tells the story of a Japanese American community that refused to be broken, and overcame incredible odds to feed and care for its people. We look forward to the day when we will be able to safely open the cellar for public tours. We ask that you help us in raising the funds necessary to complete these first steps. Any amount raised beyond our initial goal will go toward future restoration of the cellar. Together, we can keep this important piece of history standing, a witness for future generations.
EXCITING NEWS! The 2017 Heart Mountain Pilgrimage Yearbook is here!
This is our first year offering a yearbook which features hundreds of photos and an array of reflections across 75 pages from the 2017 Pilgrimage weekend.
Email info@heartmountain.org to reserve your copy of the 2018 Pilgrimage Yearbook
HMWF Chair Shirley Ann Higuchi Writes About Proposed For-Profit
Detention Centers
"The prophets of “American exceptionalism” claim we are better than this, and I believe we are. Our policies should
reflect that, and change should start by curtailing the arbitrary and capricious roundup of immigrants without
criminal records and the use of for-profit detention centers."
-Salt Lake Tribune
HMWF Chair Shirley Ann Higuchi Writes About the Current Relevance of Japanese American Incarceration
"Racism, under whatever justification its supporters can find, is still racism. It goes against what makes us all Americans. There is no racial or religious test for being an American. We should not start one now."
- USA TODAY
"Setsuko Saito was my mother. My parents met at Heart Mountain. Without 9066, I would not be here. Still, it’s my hope that no future American families will be formed in this way, because our nation’s leaders did not resist the easy call of racism and overreaction."
- History News Network
We rescued an original Heart Mountain Barrack from demolition and brought it back. But there is still much to do.
Please help us stabilize and preserve this important Historic Structure!
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