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ADAMSON, Wanda Big Canoe (ca. 1925-  )
O.H.          551
Interviewer:  Nancy Callaci
Date:            April 7, 1971
Status:          Transcribed, 68 pp.
Tape length:  2 hrs. 30 min.

The Director of the American Indian Scholarship Fund sponsored by TRY Foundation provides information on such aspects of Indian affairs as social groups, political channels open to Native Americans, and education, Father was chief of Ojibwa tribe in Canada; mother was daughter of Mohawk chief in Canada.

AMGWERD, Helen (1929- )
O.H.          575
Interviewer:  Marian Ryan
Date:            May 28 and 29, 1971
Status:          Edited, 59 pp.
Tape length:  3 hrs.  

Attitudes and impressions of a Delaware Native American woman whose antecedents were tribal chiefs; discussion of the Delwares’ history, customs, and traditions. Problems of moving from the reservation to urban areas and personal attributes about historical and contemporary relations of Native Americans and whites.

ANDERSON, Pearl (1902- )
O.H.        1057
Interviewer:  Helen M. Amgwerd
Date:            September 14, 1971
Status:          Transcribed, 61 pp.
Tape length:  2 hrs.

A very proud Cherokee born and raised in Native American territory of Oklahoma, discusses her education among Native Americans at a Native American school established by her father and later among Anglos at white schools; her birth certificate issued by the Cherokee Nation Roll; powwows, Native American beliefs and religion. Narrator is very active in charitable work among the Native American peoples.

ARANAYDO, Linda; Blue, Linda; and Ramon, Juliann   (n.d.)
O.H.          756
Interviewer:  Mary Jane DeCarlo
Date:            August 10, 1971
Status:          Transcribed, 16 pp.
Tape length:  40 min.

Interview deals with the interviewees’ project to write an education proposal; with the different values and motivations found in Native American students; and with opinions on the termination of the reservation.

B

BAD HORSE, Mahonta (1930-  )
O.H.          574
Interviewer:  Marian Ryan
Date:            June 22, 1971
Status:          Not transcribed
Tape length:  3 hrs.

An assistant at the Indian Free Clinic in Compton, California recalls tribal attitudes toward the medicine man as well as experiences of her early life on the reservation. Mrs. Bad Horse was an actress in Oklahoma and California.

BALENTI, Cecilia M. (1885-  )
O.H.          634
Interviewer:  Nancy Hunsaker
Date:            May 4 and 20, 1971
Status:          Not transcribed
Tape length:  3 hrs. 20 min.

Information on the background, customs, and folklore of Alaska’s Haida tribe, of which interviewee is a member, as well as a description of the life and studies at Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. Interview #2 contains folklore of Haida.

BALL, Madeline (1920- )
O.H.         482
Interviewer:  Kathy Biel
Date:            January 13, 1971
Status:          Transcribed, 54 pp.
Tape length:  2 hrs.

A Cahuilla Native American serving as director of the Morongo Opportunity Center of the Office of economic Opportunity in Riverside, California discusses reservation life and the problems faced in adjusting to life and education in the city of Banning, California.

BITNER, Mary (1932- )
O.H.        552
Interviewer:  Georgia Brown
Date:            April 8, 1971
Status:          Not transcribed
Tape length:  1 hr. 30 min.  

An Arapahoe born in Wyoming discusses her personal experiences with relocation and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Comments on racial prejudice and relations with other minority groups, and different problems that face Native Americans.

BLUE, Linda
O.H.          756
      See ARANAYDO, Linda

BOLES, Ted (n.d.)
O.H.          505
Interviewer:  Marian Ryan
Date:            December 10, 1970
Status:          Not transcribed
Tape length: 1 hr. 30 min. 

Manager of the first Indian Free Clinic located in Los Angeles discusses the functions, problems, and goals of the clinic set up to assist and educate the newly arriving Native Americans. Clinic provides health, dental, welfare, and referral services.

BOMBERRY, Dan (1945- )
O.H.          483
Interviewer:  Georgia Brown
Date:            December 18 and 22, 1970; January 12, 1971
Status:          Not transcribed
Tape length:  3 hrs. 30 min.

A Cayuga Native American serving as assistant Educational Opportunity Program director presents his views on the needs and ambitions of the Native American student and analyzes the role of minority activism and militancy. Grandparents reside on Six Nations Reserve.

BOSTWICK, Bill (ca. 1930- )
O.H.       1030
Interviewer:  Helen Amgwerd
Date:            October 14, 1971
Status:          Not transcribed
Tape length:  1 hr. 30 min.  

A member of the Blackfoot tribe of Montana serving as a counselor at California State College, Fullerton to seventeen Native American students comments on the importance of education to Native Americans. Discusses his religious beliefs and early days riding the rodeo circuit as one of five Native Americans who traveled with the rodeo shows during the 1950s.

BOUDINOT, Frank J., Jr. (1899- )
O.H.        755
Interviewer:  Helen M. Amgwerd
Date:            June 14 and September 7, 1971
Status:          Transcribed, 47 pp.
Tape length:  2 hrs. 

The son of Frank Boudinot, Sr., former national attorney for the Cherokee tribe, discusses his father and gives a short account of his own experiences as an emergency border guard and World War I pilot.

BOWER, Carol (1930- )
O.H.          495
Interviewer:  Kathy Biel
Date:            December 9, 1970
Status:          Transcribed, 12 pp.
Tape length:  60 min.  

An elementary schoolteacher associated with the all Indian Ad Hoc Committee on Education discusses general education and social problems for the Native American. Interviewee is especially interested in how the Native American image should be handled by the media so as to avoid misrepresentation and stereotyping. Comments on life on the Wintun reservation.

BRADLEY, Judson (1902- )
O.H.          732
Interviewer:  Sharon Galassi
Date:            July 6 and 13, 1971
Status:          Transcribed, 65 pp.
Tape length:  2 hrs. 20 min. 

Reminiscence of a Cherokee man, covering his childhood on the reservation in North Carolina in the early part of this century, his schooling in Kansas, and his career in printing and journalism. He discusses the history of the Sherman Institute and Museum at Riverside, California and gives personal impressions of Native American history, character, and attitudes after World War II, and language barriers for Native Americans.

BROWN, Larry J. (1952- )
O.H.          553
Interviewer:  Nancy Callaci
Date:            April 23, 1971
Status:          Not transcribed
Tape length:  2 hrs. 10 min. 

A young Chiricahua Apache who prefers reservation life even though it is much more difficult, comments on the problems Native American youth face in identifying with each other. The Holy Ground religion is also discussed.

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CODY, Iron Eyes (ca. 1900-  )
O.H.         554
Interviewer:  Georgia Brown
Date:            April 6, 1971
Status:          Not transcribed
Tape length:  1 hr. 45 min.  

A relocated Cherokee movie actor married to a Seneca Native American gives his views on the Bureau of Indian Affairs, alcoholism, and the advancement that Native Americans have made under different presidential administration.

COFFER, Bill (ca. 1926-ca. 1987)
O.H. 2148
Interviewer:             Daniel Espinosa
Date:                        November 22, 1974
Status:                     Completed 1975, 15 pp.
Tape length:           60 min.
Bound in Harvest, 1975, xiii, 381 pp.

A native of Missouri recalls U.S. Army service during World War II, his struggle for an education in the face of discrimination, and work as a counselor for the native American community of Orange County, California. Coffer is part Choctaw, Cheyenne, and Delaware with an Irish father.

COLORADO, Christopher (n.d.)
O.H. 2149
Interviewer:             Terry Kirker
Date:                        September 28, 1974
Status:                     Completed 1975, 17 pp.
Tape length:           60 min.
Bound in Harvest, 1975, xiii, 381 pp.

A Piaute Indian from the Pyramid Lake reservation in Nevada describes the difficulties of surviving in East Los Angeles, California, and attaining a formal education.  Comments on his marriages and work as a psychologist.

COOK, Arvilla (1935- ) 
O.H.         637
Interviewer:  Nancy Hunsaker
Date:            April 26, 1971
Status:         Not transcribed
Tape length:  1 hr. 15 min. 

An Oneida woman with ambitions of becoming a lawyer talks about her family life and her schooling in Wisconsin and Utah.

COPPICK, Lee (ca. 1930- )
O.H.         657
Interviewer:  Nancy Callaci
Date:            April 26, 1971
Status:          Transcribed, 22 pp.
Tape length:  1 hr. 10 min. 

A Cherokee teacher at Fullerton High School traces his schooling from its early stages through postgraduate work. Cherokee history, powwows, Native American rolls, attitudes on intermarriage and integration of Native Americans into white society.

COSTO, Martina (1910-  )
O.H.         558
Interviewer:  Georgia Brown
Date:            May 31, 1971
Status:          Not transcribed
Tape length:  2 hrs. 

A Cahuilla Native American schoolteacher discusses her background, relatives on the Cahuilla reservation as well as intertribal and racial relations, relations with the local and federal authorities, and the type of education received in the Native American schools.

D

de LOS SANTOS, Phyllis (1944- )
O.H.         656
Interviewer:  Clare Engle
Date:            November 3, 1970
Status:          Transcribed, 24 pp.
Tape length:  1 hrs. 15 min. 
 
Experience of growing up on a reservation and encountering discrimination and other problems later in life. The problem of acculturation receives special attention from this young Soboda Native American girl who has attended catholic and public schools in Riverside, California.

DU POINT, Frank (1921- )
O.H.       1055
Interviewer:  Nancy Callaci
Date:            May 5, 1971
Status:         Transcribed, 74 pp.
Tape length:  2 hrs. 30 min.     

A Kiowa-Apache Native American serving as house manager for the Los Angeles Indian Lodge alcoholism program discusses the program and the part he plays in running the program. Comments on his beliefs and Native American ways, his children, his training at the Riverside military school, and his plans for the future.

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EDMUNDS, Randy (1934- )
O.H.         576
Interviewer:  Marian Ryan
Date:            June 4, 1972
Status:          Transcribed, 40 pp.
Tape length:  2 hrs.  

Project manager for the Urban Indian Development Association explains his role in finding employment and housing for Native Americans relocated to the Los Angeles area. Edmunds is a Kiowa-Caddo Native American born in Lawton, Oklahoma.

ESQUERRA, Gloria (1946- )
O.H.         711
Interviewer:  Mary Jane DeCarlo
Date:            August 9, 1971
Status:          Transcribed, 59 pp.
Tape length:  2 hrs. 

An elementary schoolteacher of Navajo descent gives her opinions on how to educate Native American children, showing strong pride in her Native American heritage, and presents her views about the reservation.

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FIXICO, Hannah (1923- )
O.H.         644
Interviewer:  Mary Jane Zarek
Date:            June 14, 1971
Status:          Transcribed, 26 pp.
Tape length:  60 min.

A Sioux from the Rosebud reservation notes personal opinions on racial prejudice and the extent to which it exists in white society, the problem of housing, the relocation experience, and the desirability of living on a reservation.

FLORES, Robert (1935- )
O.H.       1321
Interviewer:  Terry Kirker
Date:            September 28 and October 3, 1974
Status:          Transcribed, 28 pp.
Tape length:  1 hr. 30 min.  

A member of the Ki-Yo-Te-Tah Clan recalls personal experiences which include very bitter memories at Catholic school; his move to Los Angeles in 1945 when he could speak only Piaute and Spanish; other problems related to urbanization.

FRAZIER, Susie M. (1895- )
O.H.        1056
Interviewer:  Helen M. Angwerd
Date:            August 30, 1971
Status:          Not transcribed
Tape length:  4 hrs.

A retired teacher of Sauk and Fox Native American descent on mother’s side details her mission work among various reservation Native American tribes in Oklahoma, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Montana. A graduate of Earlham College, Indiana in 1919, she was awarded a certificate by President Woodrow Wilson’s daughter for her outstanding work in the Young Woman’s Christian Association for Native American girls.

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GABOURI, Frances Leona (1921- )
O.H.          559
Interviewer:  Georgia Brown
Date:            April 5, 1971
Status:          Transcribed, 34 pp.
Tape length:  1 hr. 30 min.  

A Cherokee comments on the special problems faced by relocated Native Americans. Discussion includes the topics of Native American religion, Native Americans’ relationships with other minority groups, and cultural affairs such as powwows.

GIBBS, Richard (1947- )
O.H.         640
Interviewer:  Christine Valenciana
Date:            March 30, 1971
Status:          Not transcribed
Tape length:  1 hr. 15 min.          

A college student of urban background who is Sioux on his mother’s side analyzes the problems of assimilation and of cultural identity, relating these to racism and the “Red, Brown, and Black movements.”

H

HABERMAN, Lena (1921- ) 
O.H.         639
Interviewer:  Georgia Brown
Date:            May 12, 1971
Status:          Not transcribed
Tape length:  2 hrs. 

A Kiowa, Sioux, and Creek Native American discusses topics ranging from interviewee’s personal history and education to Native American and Christian religion and peyote rites. The problems of relocated Native Americans receive special attention.

HALE, Henry (n.d.)
O.H.         572
Interviewer:  Georgia Brown
Date:            November 20, 1970
Status:          Not transcribed
Tape length:  2 hrs. 

A Navajo born near Window Rock, Arizona discusses schooling on the reservation and vocational training through a government program.

J

JAMISON, Mary (1897- )
O.H.         659
Interviewer:  Sharon Galassi
Date:            June 25, 1971
Status:          Transcribed, 16 pp.
Tape length:  30 min.

Seventy-five-year-old Mission Native American woman reminisces of her school life at Sherman Institute, Riverside, California. Recalls the feeling of discrimination while growing up among whites and the problems of children brought to boarding school. Her sister Rose Fish was present during interview.

JEPSEN, Grace (1944- )
O.H.         560
Interviewer:  Nancy Callaci
Date:            April 23, 1971
Status:          Transcribed, 30 pp.
Tape length:  1 hr. 20 min.  

An attempt is made to define the Native American in cultural rather than racial terms, leading into analysis of the Native American’s special needs and circumstances and how these relate to the work done at Indian Center, Inc. Mrs. Jepsen is part Chippewa from Minnesota.

JOHNS, Lebain E. (1920- )
O.H.         733
Interviewer:  Sharon Galassi
Date:            July 22, 1971
Status:          Not transcribed
Tape length:  1 hr. 30 min.  

A Pima Native American born in Blackwater, Arizona relates experiences as a Baptist missionary working among the Papagos on the reservation. Includes problems and opportunities for the adolescent Native American.

JONES, Stephen S. (1927- )
O.H.         429
Interviewer:  Clare Engle
Date:            November 29, 1970
Status:          Transcribed, 85 pp.
Tape length:  3 hrs. 30 min.  

Mr. Jones is a Santee-Sioux, native of South Dakota, and teacher of Native American lore. He provides an in-depth discussion of Native American traditions, education, the difficulties of acculturation, and describes the Sioux massacre.

K

KABOTIE, Alice (ca. 1917- )
O.H. 1742
Interviewer:             Dwight Lomayesva
Date:                        April 22, 1984
Status:                     Completed 1985, 67 pp., photos
Tape length:             2 hrs.
Bound as one volume with Hattie Lomayesva, O.H. 1743 in Recollections of Two Hopi Women:   Alice Kabotie & Hattie K. Lomayesva, 1985.

Recollections of her train trip from the Hopi Indian reservation to the Indian School at Phoenix, Arizona; experiences and working at the Hopi Day School, employment at the Grand Canyon; her marriage, the Hopi wedding, arts and crafts for local fairs; and their assignment to New Delhi, India, and the return trip through Europe.

KIEN, William (1919-  )
O.H.         754
Interviewer:  Mary Jane DeCarlo
Date:            July 1 and August 21, 1971
Status:          Transcribed, 69 pp.
Tape length:  3 hrs. 45 min. 

Navajo school official’s discussion of Native American youths at Sherman Indian School in Riverside, California; their family and personal adjustment problems; the school’s socialization policies; the relationship of his urbanized children to traditional Native American ways.

KNIFECHIEF, John (1926- ) and Lois (n.d.)
O.H.        457
Interviewer:  Clare Engle
Date:            October 26, 1970
Status:          Transcribed, 99 pp.
Tape length:  4 hrs.

Mr. Knifechief is a native of Pawnee, Oklahoma serving as president of the Orange County Indian Center. Both he and his wife cover many topics, including Native American traditions, relocation, the role of oral history, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Native American militancy, and tribal government.

KNIFECHEIF, Judy (1946-  )
O.H.         555
Interviewer:  Christine Valenciana
Date:            May 13, 1971
Status:          Transcribed, 66 pp.
Tape length:  3 hrs.  

The Native American life-style, the heritage, and the cultural identity surrounding it is explained and compared to the white life-style. Mrs. Knifechief is a Creek married to a full blood Pawnee.

KNIFECHEIF, Tom E.  (1948- )
O.H.         556
Interviewer:  Christine Valenciana
Date:            May 10, 1971
Status:          Transcribed, 41 pp.
Tape length:  2 hrs. 

A twenty-three-year-old Pawnee Native American dancer recalls the school experience he had in Los Angeles after moving from Oklahoma, and comments on the prejudice expressed toward him at that time; also expresses his feelings about Native American heritage.

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LACY, Arlene (c. 1940- )
O.H.         636
Interviewer:  Nancy Hunsaker
Date:            April 17, 1971
Status:          Not transcribed
Tape length:  15 min.  

A woman of Cheyenne, Arapho, and Karok descent, born in Riverside, California and educated in the public schools, recalls visiting her relatives out on the Oklahoma reservation.

LARGO, Ida (1903- )
O.H.        770
Interviewer:  Sharon Galassi
Date:            August 16, 1971
Status:          Not transcribed
Tape length:  1 hr. 15 min. 

Claims to have been born as a prisoner of war at Fort Sill, Oklahoma while her parents were held captive before Native American territory opened up and they were released in 1913. Teacher of elementary schoolchildren in Phoenix and on the Pima and Navajo reservations for many years before transferring to the Sherman Institute in Riverside, California where she taught English and assisted in the adjustment to an urban society. Evaluates behavior and problems of Native American students enrolled in public schools versus boarding schools.

LEIVAS, June (1950- )
O.H.         734
Interviewer:  Priscilla Shames
Date:            July 19, 1971
Status:          Transcribed, 30 pp.
Tape length:  60 min. 

A young Native American student from the Chemehuevi tribe near Parker, Arizona comments on problems involved with land and water rights of the tribe along the Colorado River, and her feelings and the pressures encountered being an Native American student at University of California, Los Angeles.

LESTER, A. David (c. 1940- )
O.H.         561
Interviewer:  Nancy Callaci
Date:            May 5, 1971
Status:          Not transcribed
Tape length:  50 min. 

A discussion of the functions and procedures of the Urban Indian Development Agency, with which the interviewee is closely associated. Program began February 1971. Mr. Lester is half Creek, half Anglo.

LEWIS, Alex (1929- )
O.H.         562
Interviewer:  Georgia Brown
Date:            May 15, 1971
Status:          Transcribed, 37 pp.
Tape length:  2 hrs. 30 min.  

A Navajo from Shiprock, New Mexico discusses militancy, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, church and tribal religions and the peyote rite. Reservation social problems receive attention in this interview.

LOMAYESVA, Hattie Kabotie (n.d.)
O.H. 1743
Interviewer:             Dwight Lomayesva
Date:                        October 15, 1983
Status:                     Completed 1985, 25 pp., photo
Tape length:           60 min.
Bound as one volume with Alice Kabotie, O.H. 1742 in Recollections of Two Hopi Women:   Alice Kabotie & Hattie K. Lomayesva, 1985. 

A kindergarten teacher details school day activities in Oraibi, Arizona, including punishment for speaking Hopi at school, her experiences at Hopi High School and at Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, a school for those Indian students who were academically better qualified. Comments on the influence of various teachers and being asked to serve on the school paper at Haskell Institute.

M

MC CLELLAN, Holy Dee (1950- )
O.H.         492
Interviewer:  Kathy Biel
Date:            November 12, 1970
Status:          Edited, 20 pp.
Tape length:  50 min.

A firsthand description of Native American education and the difficulties students find in relating to it, a subject which leads into the whole subject of Native American identity.

MC NEVINS, Jess (1912- )
O.H.         660
Interviewer:  Sharon Galassi
Date:            June 29, 1971
Status:          Transcribed, 28 pp.
Tape length:  1 hr. 30 min.

A sixty-nine-year-old Creek counselor at Sherman Indian School, Riverside, California presents his attitudes about schooling for Native Americans, student problems, and sense of identity. Discusses discrimination and stereotype images, attitude toward militant young Native Americans, opinion of Bureau of Indian Affairs schools, and educational and counseling policies at Sherman.

MILLER, Wayne (1921- )
O.H.         493
Interviewer:  Georgia Brown
Date:            November 15, 1970
Status:          Transcribed, 23 pp.
Tape length:  1 hr. 15 min. 

A Wichita Native American comments on personal experiences with the Indian Free Clinic in Compton, California and the Baptist church relating to alcoholism, return to the reservation, discrimination, and other subjects.

MONROE, James (1948-  )
O.H.        427
Interviewer:  Helen M. Amgwerd
Date:            October 19, 1971
Status:          Transcribed, 24 pp.
Tape length:  1 hr. 15 min. 

A college student remembers growing up on the Blackfoot reservation and describes his encounters with other Native Americans.

MOORE, Lillie (1915-  )
O.H.       500
Interviewer:  Kathy Biel
Date:            January 14, 1971
Status:          Transcribed, 40 pp.
Tape length:  2 hrs. 

A longtime federal schoolteacher at Sherman Institute in Riverside, California discusses the history of the institute including the inclusion and exclusion of the California Native American, tribal relations, and other problems.

N

NEWMAN, Wallace (1902- )
O.H.       497
Interviewer:  Georgia Brown
Date:            November 8, 1970
Status:          Not transcribed
Tape length:  2 hrs.

Whittier College coach discusses his own background as a member of the Luiseno tribe in the San Luis Rey area, opening up into a discussion of Native American culture in general and the educational opportunities now available to Native Americans.

NEZ, Sally (1955-  )
O.H.         508
Interviewer:  Kathy Biel
Date:            December 15, 1970
Status:          Not transcribed
Tape length:  25 min.  

A Navajo comments on the experience of attending a boarding school as compared to that of attending a public school.

O

OLIVAS, Edward (c. 1920-   )
O.H.          563
Interviewer:  Nancy Callaci
Date:            May 5, 1972
Status:          Edited, 34 pp.
Tape length:  1 hr. 10 min. 

Conversation with the director of the Indian Alcoholism Program of Los Angeles, dealing with discrimination toward Native Americans, reasons for alcoholism, how reservation life might be improved and personal experiences with the police. Olivas is a Chumach from San Ynez reservation.

ORTEZ, Hannah (c. 1950- )
O.H.         573
Interviewer:  Marian Ryan
Date:            December 2, 1970
Status:          Transcribed, 53 pp.
Tape length:  2 hrs. 

A student at California State College at Fullerton discusses Native American identity and culture as they exist in a predominately white society.

P

PETERS, Ernie L. (1932- )
O.H.         565
Interviewer:   Georgia Brown
Date:             April 10, 1971
Status:           Transcribed, 28 pp.
Tape length:   1 hr. 30 min. 

A Sioux born in Sacramento, California gives his outlooks on the role and quality of Native American education, relocation, and the value of keeping the reservation. Includes his experiences on the reservation and with powwows.

PIERRE, George (1926- )
O.H.      1059*
Interviewer:  Mary Jane DeCarlo
Date:            July 27, 1971
Status:          Not transcribed
Tape length:  60 min.  

A tribal chief of the Coleville Confederated Tribes in the state of Washington discusses problems in education offered the reservation Native American, prejudices, fishing rights and developments of resources. The chief is a novelist, screen writer, politician, and an authority on Native American affairs.

PINKHAM, Ron (1948- )
O.H.         506
Interviewer:  Clare Engle
Date:            November 9 and 12, 1970
Status:          Transcribed, 159 pp.
Tape length:  5 hrs. 

A member of the powerful Nez Perce Native American tribe located in the Pacific Northwest was born a twin in Lenore, Idaho. Discusses the treaties of 1855 and 1863; the retreat led by Chief Josef in 1877 which brought his followers to the Colville reservation; Native American beliefs; Christianity as taught by his evangelist grandmother; prejudices and discrimination experienced while traveling the circuit with this grandmother; family problems; and the Native American and alcoholism.

PINTO, Sam (ca. 1925- )
O.H.          425
Interviewer:  Clare Engle
Date:            October 29, 1970
Status:          Transcribed, 73 pp.
Tape length:  3 hrs.

Autobiographical material describing in detail education in a government boarding school, different Navajo customs and traditions, and the relocation experience.

POEMOCEAH, Arlene (1940- )
O.H.          564
Interviewer:  Christine Valenciana
Date:            April 22, 1971
Status:          Transcribed, 32 pp.
Tape length:  2 hrs. 

A Baptist Comanche woman from Lawton, Oklahoma talks about her work and family activities; her relationship to the whites around her; and the problem of adjusting to white society.

POEMOCEAH, Elmer (1938- )
O.H.          498
Interviewer:  Georgia Brown
Date:            December 8, 1970
Status:          Edited, 20 pp.
Tape length:  45 min. 

Conversation with a nonmilitant Comanche concerning his feelings toward Native American affairs. Mr. Poemoceah works as a ride operator at Disneyland.

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QUICK, John D. (ca. 1936- )
O.H.          502
Interviewer:  Marian Ryan
Date:            February 25, 1971
Status:          Final typed, 36 pp.
Tape length:  60 min. 

A counselor associated with the Bureau of Indian Affairs school at Tuba City, Arizona and the exchange program with Garden Grove, California students describes conditions and purposes of Navajo education as handled in the southwestern United States.

R

RAMIREZ, Angela (n.d.)
O.H.          529
Interviewer:  Nancy Callaci
Date:            March 24, 1971
Status:          Final typed, 10 pp.
Tape length:  54 min.  

A former relocation representative for the Redevelopment Agency of Santa Fe Springs, California describes the experience of relocating a Choctaw family.

RIVERA, Natalie (1926- )
O.H.         566
Interviewer:  Christine Valenciana
Date:            March 22, 1971
Status:          Edited, 45 pp.
Tape length:  1 hr. 45 min. 

Discussion of Navajo traditions, discrimination against the Native American, and the impact of the “Red Power movement.”

ROEBUCK, Hotana (1920- )
O.H.          484
Interviewer:  Georgia Brown
Date:            December 10 and 17, 1970
Status:          Transcribed, 30 pp.
Tape length:  1 hr. 45 min. 

A teacher of Indian Studies at California State College at Long Beach provides her recollections of early life in Oklahoma and the problems faced as an Native American by the interviewee then and now. Member of Choctaw tribe.

ROEBUCK, Linda (1932- )
O.H.          488
Interviewer:  Marian Ryan
Date:            January 22, 1971
Status:         Transcribed, 56 pp.
Tape length:  3 hrs. 

A Choctaw Native American discusses Choctaw communities in Mississippi, aspects of school segregation, racial prejudice, economic affairs, and cultural and social activity. Father is Native American agent for Bureau of Indian Affairs and considered a trial chief by his people.

RAMON, Juliann                                  
O.H.          756
    See ARANAYDO, Linda

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ST. MARIE, Emmett (ca. 1930- )
O.H.          486
Interviewer:  Kathy Biel
Date:            December 15, 1970
Status:          Not transcribed
Tape length:  1 hr. 50 min. 

The Morongo reservation spokesman discusses his duties and reservation matters, the medical program, and states his views for the future of the reservation.

SARRACINO, Emmett (1918- )
O.H.          643
Interviewer:  Marian Ryan
Date:            June 1, 1971
Status:          Transcribed, 34 pp.
Tape length:  1 hr. 30 min. 

The problems inherent in Native American urbanization are analyzed by a Baptist minister of Pueblo ancestry, who is director of the Indian Free Clinic.

SAUBEL, Katherine Siva (ca. 1915- )
O.H.          485
Interviewer: Kathy Biel
Date:           December 15, 1970
Status:         Final typed, 22 pp.
Tape length: 1 hr. 40 min. 

A Cahuilla Native American, member of the Tribal Council of the Los Coyote reservation, relates her personal history and her opinions upon such matters as Native American education, Native American militancy, discrimination against Native Americans, and tribal problems. She helped translate the Cahuilla language.

SCOTT, Danny (n.d.)
O.H.          490
Interviewer:  Kathy Biel
Date:            November 8, 1970
Status:          Transcribed, 71 pp.
Tape length:  3 hrs. 

A Creek and Cherokee Native American gives reflections concerning his personal life, his family and on various problems encountered within the Native American community, such as discrimination, the difficulty finding employment, and the role of education in alleviating these problems.

SCOTT, Laura Jean (1950- )
O.H.         491
Interviewer:  Kathy Biel
Date:            November 12, 1970
Status:          Final typed, 15 pp.
Tape length:  40 min. 

A Navajo discusses personal experiences on reservation, gives a description of boarding school life, and her opinions of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

SCOTT, Louis (ca. 1892- )
O.H.         757
Interviewer:  Sharon Galassi
Date:            June 10, 1971
Status:          Edited, 37 pp.
Tape length:  1 hr. 30 min. 

Discussion of his father’s position as tribal leader and his own experiences working in rodeos, western movies, and at Knott’s Berry Farm. Visions and peyote are also discussed.

SEABAY, Joseph (1931- )
O.H.        1058
Interviewer:  Mary Jane DeCarlo
Date:            August 24, 1971
Status:          Transcribed, 69 pp.
Tape length:  3 hrs. 

A staff counselor of the Indian Lodge Halfway House for Native Americans suggests reasons and solutions for the alcoholism problem among urbanized Native Americans with which his work is closely involved, and expresses pride in his Native American heritage.

SHANGREAU, Mary (ca. 1920- )
O.H.          507
Interviewer:  Clare Engle
Date:            November 3, 1970
Status:          Transcribed, 59 pp.
Tape length:  2 hrs. 

An Arapaho-Sioux Native American, born on the Wind River reservation in Wyoming, discusses discrimination and prejudices of nearby reservation towns; Arapaho canning factory; settlement of the Shoshoni-Arapaho dispute with the federal government; and the impact of urbanization on the Native American.

SHEDDAN, Miriam E. (c. 1920- )
O.H.          291
Interviewer:  Clare Engle
Date:            November 16, 1970
Status:          Transcribed, 85 pp.
Tape length:  3 hrs. 15 min. 

 A native of northern Wisconsin and a trained nurse, Mrs. Sheddan moved to California with her husband because of job transfer with Union Carbide. She assisted Native American students with college classes, permitted them to live in her home while adjusting to urban living.

SMITH, Elijah (1905-  )
O.H.          496
Interviewer:  Kathy Biel
Date:            November 30, 1970
Status:          Edited, 43 pp.
Tape length:  2 hrs. 

An Oneida Native American describes personal and professional history, affiliations with the California Indian Ad Hoc Committee on Education and other groups, and a study of the various problems involved with Native American education, relocation, and employment. Mr. Smith retired as Dean of Boys, Sherman Institute at Riverside, California.

SMITH, E.  R. (1925- )
O.H.          641
Interviewer:  Marian Ryan
Date:            May 24, 1971
Status:          Transcribed, 28 pp.
Tape length:  60 min.  

Intermediate school counselor’s impressions of a visit to Garden Grove, California by Native American students from Tuba City, Arizona. Comparison of his schools and the two different cultures.

SOBOLEFF, Ross V. (1954- )
O.H.          735
Interviewer:  Priscilla Shames
Date:            June 8, 1971
Status:          Not transcribed
Tape length:  1 hr. 30 min.

A young Tlinglit Native American, a native of Juneau, Alaska and minister’s son describes his personal problems and experiences of living in Los Angeles and attending college at Occidental.

STONEKING, Arthur (ca. 1921- )
O.H.          504
Interviewer:  Georgia Brown
Date:            March 20, 1971
Status:          Edited, 24 pp.
Tape length:  45 min. 

A Cherokee Native American minister at the Indian Revival Center in Bell Gardens, California gives his point of view on such issues as Native American relocation, militancy, returning to the reservation, social problems, and the future of Native Americans.

T

THOMAS, Robert (1928- )
O.H.        1031
Interviewer:  Helen M. Amgwerd
Date:            September 22, 1971
Status:          Not transcribed
Tape length:  60 min.

An administrator with California’s Garden Grove Unified School District describes some of the early discrimination he encountered, the religion, and education in Oklahoma. Thomas is Cherokee, Osage, and Pawnee.

THORNBURGH, Margaret (1915- )
O.H.          567
Interviewer:  Christine Valenciana
Date:            May 15, 1971
Status:          Transcribed, 83 pp.
Tape length:  3 hrs. 

A Creek-Cherokee woman from Okmulgee, Oklahoma involved in labor relations analyzes the role played by Native Americans in Oklahoma’s industry and how this relates to organized labor. As the western director of the AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education, she also discusses how much of a role Native Americans play in politics.

TOLLEFSON, Rachel (n.d.) 
O.H.          769
Interviewer:  May Jane DeCarlo
Date:            July 30, 1971
Status:          Not transcribed
Tape length:  60 min. 

An employee of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Los Angeles office discusses Native American ways, beliefs, and practices of the reservation tribal system. Narrator, a Chippewa, expresses personal views and opinions of the problems confronting the reservation Native American in an urban setting.

TSOSIE, Carole Sue (1954- )
O.H.          568
Interviewer:  Georgia Brown
Date:            May 12, 1971
Status:          Edited, 42 pp.
Tape length:  1 hr. 58 min.  

Mormon Navajo high school girl discusses the Mormon church’s placement program and the difficulties and the advantages of moving from the reservation into the white community. Includes comments on Navajo religion, peyote rites, and life on the reservation.

TUBA CITY BOARDING SCHOOL STUDENTS
O.H.          501
Seven Interviewer:  Marian Ryan
Date:            February 29, 1971
Status:          Not transcribed
Tape length:  45 min. 

Navajo Native American students participating in a Bureau of Indian Affairs exchange program with Garden Grove, California students offer a brief, reticent discussion about their school and student affairs in Tuba City, Arizona. Discussion is in English.

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UPSHAW, Dolores (1949- )
O.H.          503
Interviewer:  Georgia Brown
Date:            March 13, 1971
Status:          Edited, 26 pp.
Tape length:  1 hr. 15 min. 

Personal experiences involving discrimination and lack of identity illustrate the impact of urbanization upon the reservation Native American. Includes comments on Navajo religion, superstitions, language, and intertribal relations.

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WAPP, Glen (1930- )
O.H.          758
Interviewer:  Sharon Galassi
Date:            July 12, 1971
Status:          Transcribed, 39 pp.
Tape length:  1 hr. 15 min. 

Teacher of Kickapoo descent at Sherman Indian School in Riverside, California talks about the sense of security found in all Native American schools and the sense of identity found among Native American tribes in an urban setting. Positive attitude shown toward taking children out of poor conditions on the reservation and putting them into boarding schools.

WERMY, Thomasine (1950- )                                                      
O.H.          569
Interviewer:  Nancy Callaci
Date:            April 23, 1971
Status:          Transcribed, 72 pp.
Tape length:  2 hrs. 30 min. 

Comanche-Wichita from Oklahoma compares and contrasts conditions in Oklahoma and in Los Angeles. Intertribal relations, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the necessity of maintaining culture are also discussed.

WILEY, William (1925- )
O.H.          487
Interviewer:  Kathy Biel
Date:            December 10, 1970
Status:          Transcribed, 30 pp.
Tape length:  1 hr. 35 min. 

Director of Indian Education at Riverside City College and coordinator of a pilot Indian Program to present seminars by Sherman Institute in Riverside, California compares success and problems of California Native Americans with that of reservation Native Americans.

WILLS, Patricia Mae (1931- )
O.H.          642
Interviewer:  Georgia Brown
Date:            May 2, 1971
Status:          Not transcribed:
Tape length:  2 hrs. 30 min. 

A Sioux from Rosebud, South Dakota describes her background, covering education, experiences as a Navy wife, and contact with the Indian Free Clinic and other groups; leads into the topics of race relations, intertribal relations, and social problems.

WOLF, Thurman  (ca. 1900- )
O.H.          658
Interviewer:  Sharon Galassi
Date:            June 25, 1971
Status:          Transcribed, 56 pp.
Tape length:  1 hr. 45 min. 

Experiences of an Omaha Native American man in various types of schools with white teachers. Relationship with whites and the effects of the relationship upon a sense of identity is explored, as are attitudes toward the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Native American history and documentation of it.

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YACKITOONIPAH, Howard (ca. 1932- )
O.H.         494
Interviewer:  Marian Ryan
Date:            November 20, 1971
Status:          Final typed, 46 pp.
Tape length:  1 hr. 30 min. 

A Comanche Native American describes relocation experience touching also upon such subjects as militancy and racial discrimination.

YACKITOONIPAH, Joe (1910- )
O.H.         571
Interviewer:  Marian Ryan
Date:            November 6 and December 16, 1970
Status:          Transcribed, 60 pp.
Tape length:  3 hrs. 30 min. 

An elderly Comanche from Oklahoma remembers his grandparents, the traditions of his people and religions, and the transmission of those oral traditions of his people.

YACKITOONIPAH, Kenneth (ca. 1934- ) and Greta (n.d.) 
O.H.         430
Interviewer:  Marian Ryan
Date:            November 2, 1970
Status:          Transcribed, 48 pp.
Tape length:  2 hrs. 

Mrs. Yackitoonipah relates personal experiences having to do with Native American boarding schools, powwows, and dancing. Mr. Yackitoonipah discusses relocation and its reverse, return to the reservation. Both are Comanche from Oklahoma. He is a Marine and she is a beautician.

YACKUS, Kenneth (1930- )
O.H.          499
Interviewer:  Georgia Brown
Date:            December 8, 1970
Status:          Not transcribed
Tape length:  25 min.  

A full blood Comanche who is a United States Marine discusses new developments along the lines of education and housing for the reservation; intertribal and Bureau of Indian Affairs relations are explored.

YOUNG, Glover (1927- ) 
O.H.          570
Interviewer:  Christine Valenciana
Date:            April 27, 1971
Status:          Final typed, 20 pp.
Tape length:  2 hrs. 

An Oglala Sioux details experiences of growing up on the South Dakota Pine Ridge reservation and making a satisfactory adjustment to the urban society of Los Angeles and surrounding communities.

YOUNG, Wauneta (1928- ) 
O.H.          638
Interviewer:  Christine Valenciana
Date:            April 30, 1971
Status:          Not transcribed
Tape length:  2 hrs. 

The wife of an Oglala Sioux discusses her participation in the relocation program and other programs and services for Native Americans; she is not Native American.

Related material:

LOMAYESVA, Dwight. “The Adaptation of Hopi and Navajo Colonists on the Colorado River Indian Reservation.” Master’s thesis, California State University, Fullerton, 1980.

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