Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation

Actor Tamlyn Tomita speaks at a pilgrimage event at Heart Mountain in 2013.

Pilgrimage to World War II incarceration site to highlight women’s experiences and connect survivors

Olivia Weitz

This year’s pilgrimage is the biggest since the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation opened a museum at the confinement site near Cody in 2011.

A truck driving out of a root cellar used to store produce at an a Japanese-American incarcaration site

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Nonprofit receives grant to continue restoring root cellar at Japanese American incarceration site

Olivia Weitz

The National Park Service awarded the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation a $851,826 grant to continue restoring a root cellar built by Japanese-American incarcerees to store produce they grew during World War II.

An exhibit shows pictures of Japanese-Americans working in a field at Heart Mountain Internment camp.

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A Wyoming nonprofit that operates a museum at a former internment site joins the Smithsonian network

Olivia Weitz

The Smithsonian added Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation to its network of museums earlier this month.

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LaDonna Zall recalls seeing the Heart Mountain Relocation Center from the outside

Willow Belden

LaDonna Zall is the acting curator for the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation. Her family moved to Powell when she was 10. That was during World War II,…