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Heart Mountain press releases provide updates on upcoming events, new exhibits, and news from the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation and Interpretive Center; for high-resolution archival and contemporary images, visit the Media Kit or contact info@heartmountain.org, and for news from the Japanese American Confinement Sites Consortium (JACSC), click here—recent and past press releases are available below.
July 16, 2025
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation will make the Friday, July 25, session of its annual Pilgrimage free and open to the public to feature the premiere of the animated film Hello Maggie! and the short documentary featuring Apsáalooke and Japanese American young people talking about their connection to Heart Mountain. The session begins at 9 a.m., July […]
July 16, 2025
In October, the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation will begin a three-year program to train graduate students in law, journalism and business about professional ethics in times of crisis in coordination with Professor Eric Muller of the University of North Carolina Law School. Muller, an accomplished author who helped develop the permanent exhibit at the Heart […]
June 17, 2025
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation will conduct workshops for Wyoming educators on how to teach using primary sources. These workshops are funded in part by a grant form the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Great Plains program, managed by the National Council for History Education. The $25,000 grant will pay for two one-day workshops, serving 30 teachers from Park, Big Horn, Washakie, Hot Springs, and Fremont counties. This project’s objective is to equip educators with the knowledge, resources, and confidence […]
June 12, 2025
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation is grateful for and accepts the apology from Rep. John Winter, R-Thermopolis, for his reference to the Heart Mountain incarceration site as the “J—camp” during a legislative committee hearing Tuesday. “The term (J*p Camp} that I used just slipped out of my mouth as that is what it has always […]
June 12, 2025
Sam Mihara, who was incarcerated at Heart Mountain as a child, will give his nationally recognized lecture at 5 p.m. Thursday, June 12 in the Center Theater at the Jackson, Wyoming, Center of the Arts. Tickets for the event will cost $18, while online viewers can watch the presentation at home for $5.00. Click HERE […]
May 20, 2025
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation will host Children’s Day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 10, at the Interpretive Center. A longstanding tradition in Japan, Children’s Day is free and open to the public. Haruka Takuka, Heart Mountain’s Japan Outreach Initiative coordinator, will lead the various events at the site. Scheduled events […]
May 20, 2025
For decades, a bipartisan consensus in Congress has supported the National Park Service, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Each agency has contributed to the success of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation and other institutions throughout Wyoming. That’s why the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation is deeply […]
April 30, 2025
Taken From Their Families: Japanese American Incarceration during World War II, a traveling exhibit from the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation, opens this weekend at the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center. For decades before its closing in 1940, the Angel Island Immigration Station was the gateway to the United States for immigrants from Asia, much like […]
April 3, 2025
Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, almost 300 educators from around the country have participated in workshops at the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation to learn about the Japanese American experience during World War II. While they were in Wyoming, they stayed in local hotels and retreat centers, shopped in stores along Sheridan Avenue […]
April 1, 2025
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation was pleased and grateful when Senator Cynthia Lummis nominated us the last two years for the National Medal from the Institute for Museum and Library Services. We were finalists last year and hope to win this year. If that happens, we will join two accomplished Wyoming institutions—the Buffalo Bill Center […]
March 14, 2025
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation mourns the passing of board member Prentiss Uchida, 84, who died late Monday in the company of his wife, Kathy, and members of his family in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Prentiss was just 18 months old when he and his parents were forced from their home in Sacramento and sent to […]
March 14, 2025
It’s more important than ever to tell the history of the incarceration of 125,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, Heart Mountain board member Sam Mihara told a national audience during the 51st Jefferson Lecture for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Wednesday. Mihara, who was forced with his family from his home in […]
