Haruka Takaku is a JOI (Japan Outreach Initiative) Coordinator for the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation. She recently started her two-year appointment in August 2024, working in Cody, WY to ...

Last week, 18 former Heart Mountain internment camp incarcerees and their families returned to the place where they were ...

Students at the Heart Mountain War Relocation Center during World War II. Rep. John Winter, R-Thermopolis, at the Wyoming Legislature's 2023 general session.

Japanese-Americans began arriving at Heart Mountain in August of 1942 and endured a harsh and hungry winter, according to the museum’s exhibits. One woman recalled dinners of rice and canned ...

New films and presentations about books and digital programming marking the 80th anniversary of the closing of the Japanese American incarceration sites will be featured at the Heart Mountain ...

Wyoming teachers tour the root cellar that is undergoing restoration near the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center, located between Powell and Cody. The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation and UW’s ...

Founded in 1996, the Wyoming Heart Mountain Foundation raised $5 million for the center through private donations, much of it contributed by the camp’s former occupants.

 CODY, Wyo. — Harsh climate and crowded living conditions play as common themes in artwork painted by the occupants of the Heart Mountain Relocation Center nearly 70 years ago.

Government officials who damage private property must pay for what they ruin, the Wyoming Supreme Court ruled unanimously ...

An intact root cellar at the Heart Mountain Relocation Camp near Cody on Friday, June 24, 2016. Volunteers are excavating part of another collapsed root cellar from the camp. CASEY PAGE/Gazette Staff ...