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Learn more about virtual field trips on our website. Here you will find videos that allow students to better explore Heart Mountain Interpretive Center and site.

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Virtual Field Trips – Heart Mountain Site

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Please review with students before visiting the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center.

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A list of terms for students participating in a virtual session, one of our activities or lesson plans.

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Other lesson plans, student interactives, and miscellaneous resources for teaching about Japanese American Incarceration

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A list of terms for students participating in a virtual session, one of our activities or lesson plans.

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A list of Common Core Anchor Standards and Wyoming Department of Education Standards which are met with session activities and lesson plans.

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Please take a moment to complete this survey at the conclusion of your virtual field trip to assist us in our efforts to improve the quality of the educational content we provide to students. If you have any questions contact Sybil Kawano, Director of Education at sybil@heartmountain.org.

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This film serves as the introduction to the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center's exhibits. Created by documentarian Steven Okazaki, this film uses interviews, photographs, and drawings from former Heart Mountain incarcerees.

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This film serves as the introduction to the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center's exhibits. Created by documentarian Steven Okazaki, this film uses interviews, photographs, and drawings from former Heart Mountain incarcerees.

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Our podcast, Look Toward the Mountain, tells the stories of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated at Heart Mountain. Told through a combination of archival recordings, written accounts, and contemporary interviews, each episode delves into specific topics demonstrating the innovation, creativity, and resilience that enabled the Japanese American community to endure this unjust ordeal.

Philadelphia JACL Board Chair and Japanese American filmmaker Rob Buscher hosts and produces the podcast.

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Our brand new podcast, Look Toward the Mountain, tells the stories of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated at Heart Mountain. Told through a combination of archival recordings, written accounts, and contemporary interviews, each episode delves into specific topics demonstrating the innovation, creativity, and resilience that enabled the Japanese American community to endure this unjust ordeal.
Philadelphia JACL Board Chair and Japanese American filmmaker Rob Buscher hosts and produces the podcast.
Listen & Subscribe:
Listen below or subscribe on the following platforms, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Episode 6:

Organizing Resistance
The sixth episode will explore how the Japanese American tradition of organizing evolved in camp to become a powerful resistance movement that dominated much of the Heart Mountain experience in its later years.
Coming March 19

Episode 7:

Doing Their Bit
The seventh episode will explore the many ways Heart Mountain incarcerees demonstrated their loyalty to the United States, and how they supported the war effort from behind barbed wire.
Coming March 19

Credits:

Writers:
Ray Locker
Rob Buscher
Producer/Editor/Host:
Rob Buscher
Theme Song and Original Soundtrack Music:
Rob Buscher
Voice Over Casting:
Darrell Kunitomi
Learn more about life at Heart Mountain:

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Podcast: Look Toward the Mountain - Heart Mountain

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Our brand new podcast, Look Toward the Mountain, tells the stories of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated at Heart Mountain. Told through a combination of archival recordings, written accounts, and contemporary interviews, each episode delves into specific topics demonstrating the innovation, creativity, and resilience that enabled the Japanese American community to endure this unjust ordeal.

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Slide to accompany the 3rd-6th grade Geography and Environment lesson plan.

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Interactive Google Earth Presentation that introduces students to relocation, Executive Order 9066, and assembly centers.

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Or if you're feeling adventurous, you can try Earth anyway by choosing an option below.

Learn more about Google Earth.

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In this guide, you will find suggested activities in alignment with Wyoming Department of Education and Common Core literature standards for 2nd - 5th grade students. This guide is divided into units and further subdivided into chapters. Each chapter comes with a summary and comprehensive and discussion questions for students, and several of the units come with additional activities. Teachers are also encouraged to participate in a tour (in-person or virtual) of the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center.

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A Boy of Heart Mountain Reading Guide - FINAL

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This reading guide is designed to be adjustable for 6th through 12th grade students and is in alignment with Common Core and Wyoming Department of Education literature standards. The novel is divided into units, each of which come with a summary and comprehensive discussion questions. Units also include supplemental reading and activities which may be included or modified based on grade level. Teachers are encouraged to participate in a tour (in-person or virtual) of the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center.

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They Called Us Enemy Reading Guide - Version 2

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This reading guide is designed to be adjustable for 9th through 12th grade students and is in alignment with Common Core and Wyoming Department of Education literature standards. The novel is divided into units, each of which come with a summary and comprehensive discussion questions. Units also include supplemental reading and activities which may be included or modified based on grade level. Teachers are encouraged to participate in a tour (in-person or virtual) of the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center.

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Xenophobia and the Rights of Immigrants 

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Xenophobia and the Rights of Immigrants 

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This video by Densho, explains the history of xenophobia in the United States and how it affects minorities, specifically Japanese Americans.

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"Other": A Brief History of American Xenophobia

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The Resistance: Fighting the Draft at Heart Mountain 

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The Resistance: Fighting the Draft at Heart Mountain 

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An hour long video discussing the resistance movement at Heart Mountain.

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The Resistance: Fighting the Draft at Heart Mountain

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An American Hero: The Ted Fujioka Story 

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An American Hero: The Ted Fujioka Story 

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A digital short story of a member from the 442nd.

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An American Hero: The Story of Ted Fujioka

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Take a look at artifacts from the Heart Mountain archives about the Military Intelligence Service (MIS).

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Dusted Off: Military Intelligence Service

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Look Toward the Mountain, tells the stories of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated at Heart Mountain. Told through a combination of archival recordings, written accounts, and contemporary interviews, each episode delves into specific topics demonstrating the innovation, creativity, and resilience that enabled the Japanese American community to endure this unjust ordeal.

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Organizing Resistance

Look Toward the Mountain: Stories from Heart Mountain Incarceration Camp

The sixth episode titled "Organizing Resistance" will explore how the Japanese American tradition of organizing evolved in camp to become a powerful resistance movement that dominated much of the Heart Mountain experience in its later years.

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Organizing Resistance by Look Toward the Mountain: Stories from Heart Mountain Incarceration Camp

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Organizing Resistance by Look Toward the Mountain: Stories from Heart Mountain Incarceration Camp

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The sixth episode titled "Organizing Resistance" will explore how the Japanese American tradition of organizing evolved in camp to become a powerful resistance movement that dominated much of the Heart Mountain experience in its later years.

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Learn about Frank Emi and the Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee.

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Video exploring 3 women from Heart Mountain who influenced the American art scene.

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The story of Joy Terakoa and how her experience at Heart Mountain is shaping contemporary artists.

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This video discusses the lives of Children at Heart Mountain. Learn about their daily lives and what differentiated their experience from the adults at Heart Mountain.

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Kids Meet a Survivor of the Japanese American Internment 

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Kids Meet a Survivor of the Japanese American Internment 

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A YouTube video of a former incarceree sharing his experience with several children. This video is suited for younger audiences (K-8).

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Kids Meet a Survivor of the Japanese-American Internment | Kids Meet | HiHo Kids

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A series of poems and stories written about the incarceration experience at Heart Mountain and its long lasting effect on the Japanese American community. Suggested accompanying activity: Have students imagine how life at Heart Mountain would have been and create their own 'shorts' (poem, short story, etc.).

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These short personal films about Japanese American incarceration were produced during the annual Heart Mountain Pilgrimages by students, former incarcerees, ...

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A video tour of our exhibits covering the influence of propaganda during World War II.

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A film from the war Relocation Authority justifying the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans.

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A panel discussion covering the connections between generational trauma, family trauma, and community healing in light of anti-Asian sentiments during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Lessons from the Past: Yellow Peril in COVID-19 Times

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This reading guide is designed to be adjustable for 9th through t12th grade students and is in alignment with Common Core and Wyoming Department of Education literature and Social Studies standards. The book is divided into units, each of which come with a summary and comprehensive discussion questions. Units also include supplemental reading and activities which may be included or modified based on grade level. Teachers are encouraged to participate in a tour (in-person or virtual) of the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center.

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3rd-5th Grade Art and Expression Lesson Plan

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3rd-5th Grade Art and Expression Lesson Plan

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In this lesson, students will look at artwork and short poems created by Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II. It includes two activities for use in an art class or supplement in a social studies class.

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3rd-5th Grade Art and Expression Lesson Plan

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6th-8th Grade Art and Expression Lesson Plan

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6th-8th Grade Art and Expression Lesson Plan

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In this lesson, students will analyze artwork made at Heart Mountain, including the diary of Stanley Hayami.

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9th-12th Grade Art and Expression Lesson Plan

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9th-12th Grade Art and Expression Lesson Plan

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In this lesson, students will analyze human experience and cultural expression, and illustrate integrated views of different cultural groups.

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9th-12th Grade Art and Expression Lesson Plan

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This lesson is designed for advanced art classes. Students will analyze the artwork created at Heart Mountain and create their own artwork inspire by what they have learned about Japanese American incarceration.

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11th and 12th Grade Art and Expression Lesson Plan

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In this activity, students will analyze the Final Accountability Roster and the Heart Mountain Sentinel newspaper to research an incarceree. Designed for 6-12th graders to analyze primary sources.

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_Padlet - Heart Mountain Primary Source Activity 

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This activity is designed to help students identify and explore multiple perspectives.

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In this activity, students explore the photographs of Ansel Adams and Yoshio Okumoto. Students will analyze and discuss how the two photographers looked at similar subjects in different ways.

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This Primary Source Set contains historic photos of the Heart Mountain Incarceration Camp.

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"Heart Mountain Breezes" column from The Powell Tribune, written in 1942 by Mary Oyama Mittwer. Designed to accompany the Heart Mountain Breezes activity.

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Military administrators rationalized the idea of accepting women, especially Japanese American women, using gendered and racialized reasoning. The WACs were given assignments that did not transcend the domestic sphere-in other words, the majority of them were engaged in clerical work. In addition, they were expected to emphasize their femininity; many photographs show Nisei WACs smiling with red-rouged lips and wearing uniforms with short skirts. Furthermore, Nisei WACs were not only expected to be American women, but also to retain their linguistic heritage. However, not all of the Nisei WACs had sufficient knowledge of Japanese, and moreover, the Japanese language skills that were needed were not for general conversation, but comprehension of military-related documents. Nevertheless, some of them were trained in the Military Intelligence Service Language School at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, in order to be translators because of their Japanese ancestry. Harada remembers her struggle to understand the Japanese military language:

I wasn't very strong in Japanese, coming from an area [Idaho] where there were no Orientals. We just didn't speak the language... And so, when we were sent to Japan, I had an awful hard time working with [Japanese] military terms...Some of the girls from Hawaii used to work as radio announcers in Japanese. They had a lot more training and they could read and write [Japanese] fluently. At Fort Snelling, I was in one of the lowest classes, just learning the basics of Japanese.

Like Harada, some Nisei women served in war-torn Japan. They were expected to serve as role models as Japanese women who were able to attain American womanhood. In reality, however, most of them were in charge of translations of Japanese military records, and therefore had limited opportunities to interact with local Japanese people.

Although the number of Japanese American military service women was relatively small, their histories tell how Nisei women's lives were constrained by various social norms, and how they courageously fought their way through sexually and racially intertwined expectations. Indeed, the Nisei women made their decisions undaunted by family objections and sexual rumors in the community; they survived severe army training while not losing their femininity; and they were expected to serve as model American women in Japan, yet maintain their Japanese-ness in order to accomplish their assignments as translators. Their stories are invaluable in that they not only add complex and important pages to Japanese American history, but also provide significant insights for both gender and ethnic studies.

See also Japanese Americans in Military During World War II .

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Military administrators rationalized the idea of accepting women, especially Japanese American women, using gendered and racialized reasoning. The WACs were given assignments that did not transcend the domestic sphere-in other words, the majority of them were engaged in clerical work.