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The Kito family started the Fugetsu-Do sweet shop in Little Tokyo in 1903. They were incarcerated at Heart Mountain during the war and then returned home, where they're still thriving. Thanks to our friend Christine Garceau who delivered these delights today.

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Yuriko Ito Takenaka was 18 when she and her family were incarcerated at @HeartMountainWY. She left in 1944 to finish her education at @oberlincollege. She celebrated her 101st birthday today with a virtual tour of museum with Sybil Tubbs and Michael McDaniel. Happy Birthday!

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It’s great to see the progress our friends at Bainbridge Island are making as they honor the first group of Japanese Americans exiled from their homes and incarcerated during World War II. www.bainbridgereview.com/news/bijaem-...

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Federal grants to Wyoming institutions help our local economies, says HMWF Executive Director Aura Sunada Newlin: "It has an economic benefit beyond just our content and helping us get our content into classrooms and to students who cannot visit our site." www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_n...

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It's time to plan for our Children's Day event from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at our site on Saturday, May 10. Check this out to see everything we have to offer. www.heartmountain.org/2025-childre...

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We're working with museums and other Wyoming cultural institutions to emphasize how money from federal grants is spent in our state and adjacent areas. This is funding that helps Wyoming. www.codyenterprise.com/news/local/a...

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Thanks to the support of our Heart Mountain community, we're donating copies of our graphic novel to Park County schools and libraries in honor of Sen. Al Simpson, who died last month. Now more students will learn about his inspirational story. www.codyenterprise.com/news/people/...

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It’s important to speak up about unfair treatment of foreign students and immigrants, because the exposure can force change. That’s a big change from 1942, when Japanese Americans were incarcerated with little opposition. Allyship matters. kslnewsradio.com/shows-podcas...

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We’re working hard to protect our educational programming that has been helped by government agencies such as NEH and NPS. We’ll never stop sharing the Japanese American incarceration history. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

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Japanese Americans are standing up for those who are being falsely accused and deported based on faulty or no evidence, because of the experience of the World War II incarceration. Racism and xenophobia is a toxic brew that destroys due process and human rights. lasvegassun.com/news/2025/ap...

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We stand with the Japanese American National Museum. laist.com/news/arts-an...

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International students provide valuable exposure to different cultures for universities around the country. These random visa revocations only isolate us further. www.yourwyominglink.com/news/local/u...

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Black and Japanese American residents of California were banned from living in many parts of Los Angeles, so they created their own communities and shared experiences. For many JAs, Jackie Robinson was a hero from the neighborhood. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Japanese graduate student at BYU has his visa revoked, leaving him, his wife and five children staring at an uncertain future. Arbitrary immigration enforcement without due process evokes memories of how first-generation Japanese immigrants were treated in WW2. kslnewsradio.com/utah/visa-re...

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We're putting together our new exhibit, Taken From Their Families, about the Angel Island Detention Center, where Issei men were held during World War II. It opens next week thanks the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation. Come check it out!

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Mitch Homma, John Hopper and the Amache Alliance worked hard to turn the location of the smallest Japanese American incarceration camp into a National Park Service site. Executive Director Aura Sunada Newlin and Dr. Erin Aoyama were honored to be their guests.

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We were proud to join hundreds of supporters of the Japanese American National Museum at their annual gala to raise money for the museum’s continued educational mission and operations. JANM is a beacon for those who honor our history and commitment to justice.

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Prentiss Uchida was a toddler when he and his family arrived at Heart Mountain. After the war, he became a leader in the tech industry and one of our most devoted board members. mitchditkoff.medium.com/a-fond-farew...

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Thanks to @bunkado_ltla for carrying our Heart Mountain Images of America book at their great store in the heart of Little Tokyo in Los Angeles.

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We thank the Riverton American Legion for honoring the Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat Team. It was great to have the support of Gov. Mark Gordon. rivertonranger.com/news/go-for-...

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When educators attend a workshop at Heart Mountain, they learn about the Japanese Americans and spend money in Park County and elsewhere in Wyoming. That’s part of why we’re seeking our delegation’s help to save the NEH. www.codyenterprise.com/news/people/...

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Education helped bring about a new consensus about the forced removal of 125,000 Japanese Americans from their homes and incarceration. today.yougov.com/politics/art...

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Join us at the Mineta-Simpson Institute today at 5:30 p.m. for our Cody Culture Club event. We'll explore the friendship started at Heart Mountain between Norm Mineta and Al Simpson. www.codyenterprise.com/news/local/a...

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If you're near Casper Wednesday, check out this presentation by our Michael McDaniel about Dispossession and Heart Mountain. See more here: www.caspercollege.edu/news/2025/04...

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We were proud to have Executive Director Aura Sunada Newlin join Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon at the dedication of the memorial to the 442nd Regimental Combat Team in Riverton Saturday. Aura's grandfather George Sunada served his nation while many Japanese Americans were incarcerated.

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“Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a Japanese American National Museum leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’” 🔥

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Glad to be in the PRH family. (Penguin Random House / Pantheon.) Harper-Collins didn't sign. They are OWNED BY MURDOCH.

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The NEH Landmarks was started by a Republican president and approved by a GOP-controlled Congress. It has thrived under administrations of both parties. We join JANM in protesting the reckless withdrawal of grants that were already approved. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

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We join the Japanese American National Museum in warning about what will lost from reckless cuts to the NEH and IMLS. abc7.com/post/funding...

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We're asking Wyoming's congressional delegation to push back on the potentially ruinous cuts at the National Endowment for the Humanities. The agency provides vital support to cultural institutions across Wyoming. www.heartmountain.org/heart-mounta...

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While many of those incarcerated at Heart Mountain were U.S. citizens who embraced American traditions, many also followed Japanese traditions. Haruka Takaku, our JOI coordinator, explains sharing those with our local community. www.uwyo.edu/global/wyogl...

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Early registration is open for our July 24-26 Heart Mountain pilgrimage! Things get booked up quickly. It will be a great weekend of history, community and reflection. See more here: support.heartmountain.org/event/2025-h...

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IMLS was created by Congress and was reauthorized the last time by a 331-28 in a Republican-controlled House in 2018 and by unanimous consent in the Senate. Trump signed the law, which doesn't give DOGE the authority to get the agency that helps museums and libraries.

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The Institute for Museum and Library Services helps institutions across the country, including in smaller and underserved states, such as Wyoming. www.npr.org/2025/03/31/n...

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During Saturday’s Cherry Blossom Freedom Walk in Washington, speakers discussed the need for resilience during attacks on civil liberties, including the use of the Enemy Aliens Act, the same law used to justify the Japanese American incarceration of World War II. And there was taiko drumming.

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I had the great honor of spending time with Secretary Lonnie Bunch III, founding curator of #NMAAHC and Director of the Smithsonian. As Sec. Bunch told us, museums should tell the stories that people need to hear, not just the stories they want to hear. I think that is a good dictum for all of us.

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Our mission is educating the world about the abuse of power that forced 125,000 Japanese Americans into concentration camps to prevent similar things from happening again. Thanks for telling our story, @darrellehrlick.bsky.social dailymontanan.com/2025/03/26/a...

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Bob Fuchigami was 11 when he and his family were forced into the concentration camp for Japanese Americans at Amache. He became one of the leading advocates for the new National Park Service site there. www.cpr.org/2025/03/27/s...

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We join the Small Museum Association and other humanities organizations in calling for the preservation of the Institute for Museum and Library Services. We’ve contacted our congressional delegation. You should too. smallmuseum.org/IMLS-statement

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Mario Reyes was there for many critical events in Japanese American history in Los Angeles. www.zocalopublicsquare.org/mexican-amer...

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Protests about the erasure of the story of Japanese American military units forced the administration to restore the account of their bravery back to Army websites. We have to stay on guard against racist attacks on our shared history. www.courthousenews.com/following-ba...

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It's been 10 years since the creation of the Honouliuli National Historic Site in Hawaii. Join them for 10th anniversary events throughout the year to learn more about the great work they're doing to preserve this unique history. Go to nps.gov/HONO for more information.

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Thanks to Dave Bonner of the Powell Tribune for this acknowledgment of the life and legacy of Senator Alan Simpson. www.powelltribune.com/stories/one-...

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The Alien Enemies Act used to deport immigrants is an anachronism that was of dubious legality when it passed in 1798 and abusive now. It puts unchecked power in the executive. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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Uncertainty about funding for the National Park Service has a huge ripple effect on the Wyoming economy, as multiple businesses in Cody and Jackson Hole worry about how many visitors they'll have this summer. That uncertainty affects Heart Mountain, too. www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/open-spaces/...

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In this post Kelly provides great list of easy steps you can take: sign the EveryLibrary petition, call your senators + reps (use 5Calls!). Protect our state libraries, tribal libraries, interlibrary loan, digital equity, vital grants to libraries of all species... 📣 And please spread the word!! 📣

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That is true. Many voices were saying to use the Alien Enemies Act after Pearl Harbor. Most of them were uninformed. There were studies, particularly the one by Curtis Munson, that said the Japanese American community was not a threat. They were ignored.

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Thanks to Kyodo News, whose reporter Keiichiro Otsuka, visited Heart Mountain and Senator Al Simpson in December 2023 for this remembrance of Al and his legacy. english.kyodonews.net/news/2025/03...

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Shortly after Dec. 7, 1941, thousands of Japanese immigrants, who were denied the right to become citizens because of their race, were arrested and stuck in camps where their families couldn’t find them. The government claimed without evidence that they were dangerous.

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Thanks to Rachel Maddow for using this classic story about how Alan Simpson and Norman Mineta first met at Heart Mountain as a way to pay tribute to Al on the day of his passing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyR3...

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