| Title: |
Lillian Hereford
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Wind River Historical Center. Archives
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| Collection: |
Wind River Oral History Collection
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| Series: |
Item 1 of Series Lillian Hereford
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| Description: |
Language remedies for whooping cough—skunk oil and castor oil, T.B., mother cooked in dude ranches. Washakie. Schools. “Good Citizen Cash Store.” Farming taught at school, Christmas at the school. Dad worked as a farmer and ag teacher. Prejudice between full bloods and half bloods. Learning bead work. For Washakie Day School Mrs. Schultz, wife of author, Willard Schultz, ran an arts and crafts outlet to seel beadwork for the women during the Depression. Doing beadwork to make ends meet. Prairie dogs and the “plague” (Tick Fever). Lengthy explanation of doctoring for whooping cough with feather and skunk oil, trachoma, other health problems, T.B., bad teeth. “Government Issue” goods and GI brand on horses. Alcoholism. Mental abuse by older girls at boarding school to younger ones. Run-aways at school, brings kids back in wagons. Shoshone-Arapaho relations. Black troops at Fort Washakie, mixed race, Irish. More on half-breeds and full-bloods. Language barrier in healthcare. Traditional Indian medicine in psychology. Alcoholism and effect on family. Bad times from starvation, travel through Yellowstone from Montana. Worked in alcoholism program at Sheridan. Response to psychiatrists—being “sick in the heart.” Going to school in Lander.
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| Extent: |
32 pages
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| URL: |
http://www.windriverhistory.org/archives/oralhistory/Resources/HEREFORD1.pdf
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1991 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Hereford, Lillian, 1924-
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker date of birth: |
14-Sep-1924
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| Speaker race: |
American Indian
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| Age at speaking: |
67
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| Document date: |
04-Feb-1991
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| Interviewer: |
Kahin, Sharon
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| Locations discussed: |
Dubois, WY; North America; United States; Wyoming
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| 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
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Native American languages
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0024545-26228
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