Wyoming Chronicle: Aura Newlin—Japanese Americans in Wyoming (film)

Aura Newlin, a Northwest College faculty member and board member of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation, talks about her family history as a fourth generation Japanese American and a fourth generation Wyomingite, then takes the viewer on a tour of the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center , telling the story of the forced removal and incarceration and of the Heart Mountain concentration camp. The last third of video is a sit-down interview between producer Craig Blumenshine and Newlin that covers her students' knowledge of and reaction to the incarceration story, the role and purpose of the museum and the relevance of the story today and its place in Wyoming history.

Produced by Wyoming PBS and funded by the Wyoming Public Television Endowment, it is part of season nine of the Wyoming Chronicle series. It aired locally on December 15, 2017.

Might also like Heart Mountain: Three Years in an Internment Camp (film) (1997); The Legacy of Heart Mountain (film) (2014); Moving Walls: American Nightmare to American Dream (film) (2017)