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Document Details
| Title: | Dorothy Peche and Zedora Enos |
| Document type: | Oral history |
| Accessibility: | Free Only |
| Repository: | Wind River Historical Center. Archives |
| Collection: | Wind River Oral History Collection |
| Description: | Life at Fort Washakie Government School, sanitary conditions, punishment, bullying of younger students by older one, language, problems with boys climbing into girls dormitories for sex, “jail” for students. Talks about Cheyenne students, lice cutting students braids, sewing uniforms, wearing government issue clothing, methods of treating trachoma, ginger for menstrual problems, whipping students, Diets compared to home, wild game during the Depression, gardens, white squatters on the reservation, trapping during the Depression, changes in social conditions, violence, drugs, alcohol. Her Navajo husband was a forest ranger, worked at CCC caps, tent camps, women got together to hook rugs and sew. |
| Extent: | 34 pages |
| URL: | http://www.windriverhistory.org/archives/oralhistory/Resources/PECHE.pdf |
| Original Language: | English |
| Time span: | Not indicated ... to 1991 (Year of interview) |
| Speaker: | Peche, Dorothy |
| Speaker gender: | Female |
| Speaker race: | American Indian |
| Document date: | 08-Mar-1991 |
| Interviewer: | Kahin, Sharon |
| Locations discussed: | Dubois, WY; North America; United States; Wyoming |
| Topics discussed - ASP terms: | American Indian; Community; Dubois (Wyo.)--History; Dubois, WY; Education; Historic sites--Dubois (Wyo.); Indian reservations; Indians of North America; North America; Oral history; United States; Wyoming |
| Topics discussed - Other terms: | Native American languages |
| ASP release: | 2005-06 |
| Document code: | OHI0024537-26216 |