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The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation relies on the support of our members and donors to advance our mission and take on new projects, including the restoration of original Heart Mountain structures. Join Heart Mountain in preserving the past, so that we can share all the lessons it holds for the future.

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Hours & Admission

SUMMER
Mid-May to Early October
Open Daily 10-5 pm

WINTER
Early October to Mid-May
Open Wed-Sat 10-5 pm

Adults $14
Seniors/Students $12
Children 10-17: $10

Children Under 10: Free
Contact us for Commercial Group rates
* We’re a Blue Star Museum

Contact

(307) 754-8000
info@heartmountain.org
1539 Road 19
Powell, WY 82435

Learn the History

Learn about the history of Japanese Americans in the United States by exploring the progression of Japanese immigration, to the settlement of Japanese immigrants, to the forced removal of people of Japanese ancestry after the U.S. entrance into WWII, and finally to the experiences of Japanese Americans in the confinement sites.

Explore the History

Kokoro Kara Magazine

Kokoro Kara (“From Our Heart”) is our award-winning magazine. The publication includes original feature articles on Heart Mountain history, contributions by former incarcerees and their descendants, updates on the Foundation’s work, and news related to the Japanese American incarceration. Read through digital copies of past issues along with expanded online articles.

Read through past issues

Draft Resisters at Heart Mountain

Of the ten incarceration sites for Japanese Americans, Heart Mountain was the center of resistance to the military draft in 1944 and 1945. Check out the profiles of these men, including biographies and War Relocation Authority files.

Draft Resister Profiles

Recent News

Heart Mountain press releases include announcements about upcoming events, new exhibits, general news about the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation and the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center, and other important information.

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New Exhibit on Draft Resistance Opens at Heart Mountain

May 11, 2026

The Patriotism of Protest: Draft Resistance in Confinement, an exhibit featuring the history of draft resistance at Heart Mountain, will open Sunday, May 17, at the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center.

Sixty-three resisters were tried together in June 1944 in the largest mass trial in Wyoming history. Another group was prosecuted and convicted in early 1945. The resisters were convicted and sentenced to two- or three-year terms at federal prisons at McNeil Island, Wash., and Fort Leavenworth, Kan. All were pardoned by President Harry Truman on Dec. 24, 1947, and some, including Hoshizaki, served in the military during the Korean War.

Profiles of eight of the 85 draft resisters will be featured in the exhibit, including 100-year-old Takashi Hoshizaki, a Heart Mountain board member.

Cally Steussy, Heart Mountain’s director of interpretation and preservation, developed the exhibit with Eric Muller, the Dan K. Moore Distinguished Professor in Jurisprudence and Ethics at the University of North Carolina Law School. Muller helped create the interpretive center’s permanent exhibit and is the author of Free to Die for Their Country, the groundbreaking history of draft resistance among Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II.

Visitors to the exhibit will be directed by QR codes to more information about the resisters on the Heart Mountain website at https://www.heartmountain.org/collections-archives/draft-resisters/. HMWF collected and digitized the War Relocation Authority files for each resister thanks to a grant from the Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) program of the National Park Service.

Also coming soon to the interpretive center is an AI-driven interactive video featuring Hoshizaki in which visitors can ask questions about his experience at Heart Mountain.

 

 Photos: Heart Mountain staff installing the draft resisters exhibit. Credit: Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation

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