Welcome to Wyoming and Overview

1:00 p.m. Narrated bus ride from Billings Logan International Airport (BIL) to the Thomas the Apostle Center (TAC) in Cody, WY. (approximately two hours)

3:00 p.m. Check into lodging and confirm meal orders and rooms.

4:45 p.m. Bus leaves for the Buffalo Bill Center of the West (BBCW) in Cody, Wyoming

5:00 p.m. BBCW Welcome: Greetings and Ice-breaker

6:30 p.m. BBCW, Dinner and Overview of the week

7:30 p.m. BBCW, Lecture and Q & A:

Introduction to the Incarceration“All We Could Carry” (15 mins.) with Dr. Franklin Odo, Sam Mihara, Doug Nelson, and Shirley Ann Higuchi

"Power of Words and Modern Day Usage/NEH Principles of Civility/Teaching and Learning Difficult Topics" Tyson Emborg, Ray Locker

9:00 p.m. Bus leaves BBCW to TAC

The Origin, Source and Effect of Resentment

8:00 a.m. Bus departs TAC for the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center (HMIC)

8:30 a.m. HMIC, “Overview of Japanese emigration to the United States, the tension, fear and racism that grew”

Where the immigrants came from, where they settled in the U.S. and also explain the tensions and racism that inspired the forced removal and incarceration. There will also be a guided walk through the Center. Discussion and tour by Dr. Franklin Odo.

10:15 a.m. HMIC, Break

10:30 a.m. HMIC, “Evacuation Orders”

Mike Mackey examines the evacuation orders, the assembly centers and the opening of Heart Mountain. This session will examine the mechanisms used to facilitate the removal of the Japanese Americans, how the federal government used census and other records and relied on false claims of national security to justify its decision.

12:15 p.m. HMIC , Quick Connections

These sessions will be focused on developing age-appropriate and curriculum targeted lessons as the teachers work on their plans throughout the week and a presentation titled“Yellow peril in the west; railroad, mining, immigration and the role of prejudice” by Master Teacher Tyson Emborg.

12:45 p.m. HMIC, Lunch (provided)

1:45 p.m. HMIC, “Personal Stories - Before, During and After Camp”

Sam Mihara, survivor, Heart Mountain Incarceration Site talks about his family's experience of Heart Mountain.

3:45 p.m. HMIC, Break

4:00 p.m. HMIC Guided walking tour

Barrack, Memorial, Hospital by Sam Mihara

6:00 p.m. HMIC, Connections and exit session (Pre-EE9066 Propaganda) and intro to Cody by Tyson Emborg

6:30 p.m. Bus leaves HMIC to TAC

9:00 p.m. TAC, Evening Program (optional)

Constitutional Rights and the Role of Resistance

8:30 a.m. Bus departs TAC for HMIC

9:00 a.m. HMIC, “Relocation and the Splitting of the Japanese American community”

Presentation by Erin Aoyama, Brown University PhD candidate. This session will focus on the WRA’s efforts to spread Japanese Americans around the country during the war, a policy that allowed some prisoners to escape confinement while also eroding the familial ties that characterized the prewar Japanese American community.

10:30 a.m. HMIC, Break

10:45 a.m. HMIC, “Challenging the Incarceration: Korematsu vs. US”

Led by Karen Korematsu, leader of the Korematsu Institute, which studies the legal history of the incarceration. She is the daughter of Fred Korematsu of Korematsu vs. U.S., one of the Supreme Court’s most notorious opinions, the 1944 ruling that upheld the legal basis of the incarceration. She will lead the workshop on the constitutionality of the incarceration.

12:15 p.m. HMIC, Lunch (provided)

1:15 p.m. HMIC, “The Resisters: The Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee”

Dr. Arthur Hansen, a longtime professor at California State University Fullerton, will lead the third session as it examines the resistance to the military draft that ended with 63 young men from Heart Mountain being convicted and sent to federal prison. His use of oral histories will be pivotal to this discussion.

2:45 p.m. HMIC, Break

3:00 p.m. HMIC , Connections

This session will target an understanding of the constitutional issues, historical background, impact, responses by governors, and contemporary relevance of Executive Order 9066, along with the use of primary sources to engage students, in particular access to the Heart Mountain online collection, including the Frank Emi Papers and the digitized Evacuee Case Files of Heart Mountain draft resisters by Master Teacher Tyson Emborg.

3:45 p.m. HMIC Barrack, “The Role of Religion in Surviving Incarceration: Patriotism Through Religious Freedom,”

Dr. Duncan Williams will draw on the lessons from his book American Sutra to show how Buddhism exacerbated the differences between Japanese Americans and Caucasians but also provided the incarcerees with a sense of familiarity and stability through practicing their religious freedom while in camp.

5:15 p.m. HMIC, Break

5:30 p.m. Bus departs HMIC to TAC/Cody for dinner (dinner on your own)

6:30 p.m. Bus leaves TAC to Park County Library (PCL) in Cody

7:00 p.m. Park County Library Materials and Book Fair

9:00 p.m. Bus leaves PCL to TAC

The Struggle of the First Peoples at Heart Mountain

9:30 a.m. Bus departs TAC for BBCW

10:00 a.m. BBCW, “A Tribalography of Apsáalooke (Crow) Cultural Heritage”

This session will examine this contested land that was once home to the Apsáalooke or the “Children of the large beaked bird,” also called the Crow Nation. Dr. Mary Keller of the University of Wyoming will focus on the Crow’s history on the land, drawing from her oral history research and study of Native American culture in Wyoming. She is also a co-planner with Apsáalooke Elder and NEH National Heritage Fellow, Grant Bulltail of the Return to Foretop’s Father Pipe Ceremony which participants will be encouraged to join on Friday and Saturday for an additional fee.

11:30 a.m. BBCW, Break

11:45 a.m. BBCW, "The Intersectionality of the history of the US Government Relations with Native Americans and Japanese Americans"

Presented by Hana Maruyama, University of Minnesota PhD candidate in American Studies.

1:15 p.m. BBCW, Lunch (provided)

2:15 p.m. BBCW, Quick Connections

Historical Comparisons by Master Teacher Tyson Emborg

2:45 p.m. BBCW, Scavenger Hunt

3:15 p.m. BBCW, Break

3:45 p.m. BBCW, The Power of Objects: The Artifacts of Incarceration-Using Artifacts and Primary Sources in the Classroom by Noriko Sanefuji, Museum Specialist, Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

5:15 p.m. BBCW, Connections Building students' deepening understanding with classroom links by Tyson Emborg.

6:00 p.m. BBCW, Lesson plan check-in: Where are you taking this now? What other resources do you need?

6:45 p.m. BBCW, Walk to dinner on your own in Cody

?:?? p.m. Bus LOCATION to TAC

9:00 p.m. TAC, Movie Night: The Mineta Legacy (optional)

The Legacy of the Land: Homesteading, Irrigation and Reclamation

8:00 a.m. Bus departs TAC for Heart Mountain Interpretive Center (HMIC)

8:30 a.m. HMIC, "Heart Mountain Agricultural Tour"

Hanako Wakatsuki, the chief of interpretation at the Minidoka National Historic Site, will speak on the often-uneasy collaboration between the Heart Mountain prisoners, who helped harvest the crops of local farmers, and the local farmers. This session also will explore the agricultural accomplishments of the prisoners.

10:00 a.m. HMIC, Break

10:15 a.m. Bus departs HMIC for the Homesteader Museum (HSM) in Powell, WY

Narrated bus ride about connections between Heart Mountain and Powell, WY.

10:45 a.m. HSM, Tour and some of the colorful history of Powell, WY

11:30 a.m. HSM, "The 1904 Reclamation Act and the completion of the Shoshone Irrigation Project"

This session will introduce participants to the federal efforts to irrigate and farm the Big Horn Basin. This started with the 1904 Reclamation Act and the Shoshone Irrigation Project, which began to send water to the farms started by the post-World War I homesteaders. This created the conditions that made the area appealing to the WRA for a Japanese American camp. Dr. Eric Sandeen and/or Dr. Amy McKinney.

12:30 p.m. HSM, Lunch (provided)

1:30 p.m. Bus departs HSM to go to the Powell Cemetery and the George Family Dairy (GFD)

2:30 p.m. GFD, “The uses of former camp buildings”

Dr. Eric Sandeen will lead the tour and engage the participants in a discussion about the dispersal of the camp’s buildings for $1 apiece and the influence of the incarceration on the local communities since the war. He will draw on his decades of experience studying the cultural landscapes of Wyoming, including his survey of the area surrounding Heart Mountain.

3:30 p.m. Bus leaves GFD to TAC

4:00 p.m. TAC, Connections

Historical Comparisons by Master Teacher Tyson Emborg.

4:30 p.m. TAC, "Legacies of Heart Mountain: Mineta-Simpson, lessons and modern day problem-solving"

What are the lessons learned from the Heart Mountain experience? These two boyhood Boy Scouts learned lifelong lessons that impacted the rest of their lives. Ray Locker, Tyson Emborg and Shirley Ann Higuchi.

5:30 p.m. TAC, Finish lessons

7:00 p.m. TAC, Final dinner together

8:00 p.m. TAC, “Enacting Memory, Trauma, and Identity through Art: NoNo Boy and Asian American Histories as Lens for the Present”

Presented by Erin Aoyama, Brown University PhD candidate in American Studies.

8:45 p.m. TAC, Songs by the campfire: storytelling, oral histories, collective memory

Legacy for the 21st Century

8:30 a.m. TAC, Share thoughts from last night; Re-Cap

9:00 a.m. TAC, Check Out

9:15 a.m. Bus leaves from TAC to Park County Library (PCL)

9:30 a.m. PCL, Redress

10:30 a.m. PCL, Break

10:45 a.m. PCL, "Multigenerational Trauma"

Presented by Dr. Gordon Nagayama Hall and Jeanne Nagayama Hall

12:00 p.m. PCL, Lunch (provided)

1:00 p.m. PCL, Conclusions and presentations of lessons and personal reflections

2:30 p.m. PCL, Distribution of stipends, certificates, information for credit hour

*Evening: TBA, Return to Foretop’s Father Pipe Ceremony programming and dinner (optional)

Optional: Return to Foretop's Father Ceremony

For an additional fee paid for by the participant, join the second day of Return to Foretop’s Father Pipe Ceremony and hike up Heart Mountain led by Dr. Mary Keller and Grant Bulltail, Crow elder, storyteller, and NEH 2019 National Endowment of the Humanities Heritage Fellow.

Welcome to Wyoming and Overview

See Session I, Day 1 for details.

The Origin, Source and Effect of Resentment

See Session I, Day 2 for details.

Constitutional Rights and the Role of Resistance

See Session I, Day 3 for details.

The Struggle of the First Peoples at Heart Mountain

See Session I, Day 4 for details.

The Legacy of the Land: Homesteading, Irrigation and Reclamation

See Session I, Day 5 for details.

Legacy for the 21st Century

7:30 a.m. Thomas the Apostle Center (TAC), Breakfast

8:30 a.m. TAC, Share thoughts from last night; Re-Cap

9:30 a.m. TAC, Bus leaves TAC for Wynona Thompson Auditorium (WTA)

10:00 a.m. WTA, Heart Mountain Pilgrimage 2020 Opening ceremony

12:30 p.m. TBA, Lunch on your own or a brown bag lunch packed by TAC.

1:30 p.m. PCL, Multigenerational Trauma

Dr. Donna Nagata and Shirley Higuchi

2:30 p.m. PCL, Break

2:45 p.m. PCL, Conclusions and presentations of lessons and personal reflections

*3:45 p.m. TBA, Heart Mountain Wyoming Pilgrimage (optional)

Optional: Heart Mountain Wyoming Pilgrimage

For an additional fee, the participant may join the second day of the Heart Mountain Pilgrimage.