| Title: |
Carolyn Blair
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Northern Arizona University. Cline Library. Special Collections and Archives Department
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| Collection: |
United Indian Traders Association Oral History Collection
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| Description: |
Well, the trading post [Red Mesa, 1946] had two bedrooms and it was real comfortable. I had a wood stove for cooking, and a wood stove in the living room for heat. We didn't have electricity right at the beginning. We had a wind charger and a battery. There was one light in the living room and one light in the store. And then otherwise we used kerosene or some other light. Our water, we had a windmill and it was piped, oh, I don't know how far away. But we depended on the wind, you know, in order to have water. [We] had a kerosene refrigerator, and a gasoline motor for the washing machine. We had an outhouse (chuckles), but we were comfortable. And the store and the house were built of red sandstone--thick, thick walls.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1998 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Blair, Carolyn, 1922-
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker date of birth: |
16-Sep-1922
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| Speaker place of birth: |
New Britain, CT; Connecticut; United States; North America
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Age at speaking: |
76
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| Document location: |
Farmington, NM
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| Document date: |
12-Feb-1998
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| Interviewer: |
Cole, Brad
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| Organizations discussed: |
United Indian Traders Assocation, 1931-1997
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| Locations discussed: |
North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
American Indian; Commerce; Indian reservations; Indians of North America; Indians of North America--Commerce; Navajo Indians--United States; North America; Oral history; Trading posts; United Indian Traders Assocation, 1931-1997; United States
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0025984-27932
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