AHJ_ah11457 Inventory of the Warm Valley Historical Project Records, 1961-2001 Warm Valley Historical Project Records Processed by Paula Renaud and Ronda Frazier The creation of the EAD-version of this finding aid was made possible through a grant from the National Historic Publications and Records Commission. University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.
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2006

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 Finding aid encoded by Ann Mulfort March 2006 Finding aid is in English Collection Summary Warm Valley Historical Project Warm Valley Historical Project Records 1961-2001 1986-1991 11457 2.38 cubic ft. (2 record boxes, 1 F17 box) University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center. English Historical examination from the Eastern Shoshone perspective of the boarding school experience at Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming and of major cultural transitions resulting from the early reservation system through recorded and transcribed oral history interviews. History of the Warm Valley Historical Project

The Warm Valley Historical Project, funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, was conducted in coordination with the Shoshone Episcopal Mission. The project sought oral histories regarding Wind River Indian Reservation life during the early 1900s. Dr. Sharon M. Kahin of Dubois, Wyoming, Dr. Anne Slater, and other research assistants interviewed tribal members who had resided at the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming during that time. Some of the interviews were conducted in order to gather information related to certain historic photo images, slides of which are included in the collection. Interviews for the project were conducted in 1990-1991. The project also catalogued and indexed or transcribed interviews completed in 1986-1987 for the Valley of Three Worlds Project. Research material focused on turn-of-the-century reservation life, Indian experience with the Great Depression, boarding schools, traditional crafts and therapies, employment opportunities, reservation ranching, dude ranching, farming, language use, etc. Though the project focused on Eastern Shoshone perspectives and memories, interviews were also conducted with Arapaho tribal members and several interviews from the Valley of Three Worlds Project included non-Indian prospectors, business owners, and teachers.

 Scope and Content

The Warm Valley Historical Project collection includes the application submitted for the National Endowment for the Humanities grant describing the project and the resumes of its project directors. The bulk of the collection is the cassette tapes of interviews with tribal members and interview transcripts, notes, and short biographies on many of the individuals. Dr. Sharon Kahin, project director, and Dr. Anne Slater conducted most of the interviews. There are also exhibit catalogs for the two traveling photo exhibits produced by the project as well as a selection of slides. It is unclear whether the slides go along entirely with the photo exhibit or if they were all used to gather information as described in the history section above. The project also assembled and indexed data collected from the earlier Valley of Three Worlds Project. Many interviews from that project were conducted by Susan Crazy Thunder and others and were indexed by Dr. Kahin.

Access to the oral histories, transcripts, and other related materials in this collection requires written permission from the president of the Chief Washakie Foundation. Contact James Trosper at jtrosper@uwyo.edu for current information regarding whom to address correspondence and emails to.

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Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Warm Valley Historical Project records, 1961-2001, Collection Number 11457, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

 Access Terms Roberts, John, 1853-1949. Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation. St. Michael's Mission (Ethete, Wyo.) St. Stephen's Mission (Saint Stephens, Wyo.) Eastern Bands of Shoshoni Indians. Shoshone Episcopal Mission (Fort Washakie, Wyo.) Valley of Three Worlds Project. Fort Washakie Government Boarding School. Indian children--Assimilation (Sociology). Boarding schools. Off-reservation boarding schools. Wind River Indian Reservation (Wyo.) Fremont County (Wyo.) Wyoming--History--1890-1918. Wyoming--History--1919-1945. Oral histories. <?xm-replace_text {Title as Subject}?> Kahin, Sharon. Aragon Smith, Julia; Shoshone. Bonatsie, Lucy; Shoshone, b. circa 1911. Brown, Tommy; Arapaho, b. 1908. Calhoun, Josie; Shoshone, b. circa 1906. Davis, Pete; Chippewa, b. 1902. Enos, Eva; Arapaho, b. circa 1915. Freese, Sidney; non-Indian. Freese, Alice; non-Indian. Friday, Ben; Arapaho, b. circa 1904. Goggles, Chris; Arapaho, b. 1924. Goggles, Caroline; Arapaho, b. 1930. Haukaas, Vida; Shoshone, b. 1929. Headley, Arnold; Arapaho. Headley, Margaret. Hereford, Lillian; Shoshone, b. 1924. Moss, Paul. Norman, Val. Panzetangua, Lizzie, b. 1923. Peche, Dorothy; Shoshone, b. 1911. Enos, Zedora; Shoshone. Roberts, Alberta; Shoshone, b. 1929. Rowan, Dolly; Shoshone, b. circa 1910. Sage, Joe; Arapaho. Sage, Hazel; Arapaho. Snyder, Bea; Shoshone, b. 1939. St. Clair, Daisy; Shoshone. St. Clair, Darwin; Shoshone, b. 1933. St. Clair, Edgar; Shoshone. St. Clair, Pansy; Shoshone, b. 1935. St. Clair, Winnie; Arapaho. Thunder, Verna. Thunder, Bill. Tillman, Ethel. Tillman, Marjorie; Shoshone, b. 1920. Ute, Orlean; Shoshone. Wagon, Angeline; Shoshone. Wagon, Suzette. Washakie, Marie; Shoshone, b. 1910. Washakie, Nellie; non-Indian. Weed, Herman. Weed, Ina. Weed, Star; Shoshone, b. 1919. People, Ethnicity, and Culture Native Americans Container List Series I. Administrative Records 1 1 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH ) Application September 4, 1991

Requested grant period April 1992–January 1993

 1 2 Correspondence and Resumes 1991 1 3 Fax May, 30, 2001

List of interviewees for the Valley of Three Worlds Project

 Series II. Interview Transcripts 1 4 Lucy Bonatsie (Shoshone) (b. circa 1911); Interview dates: November 15, 1986, January 08, 1991

Creators: Sharon Kahin and Anne Slater with Ralphelita Stump and Sara Wiles

Subjects: Great Depression, circa 1917 boarding school experience, hunting, farming, police, edible and medicinal plants, Sun Dance, Shoemaker’s dude ranch, gardening, beadwork, eating utensils, tourists, runaways, discipline, recreation, language use, also chores and training in trades and crafts at the school. Wagon transportation, reservation roads.

Includes partial transcript of interview with Tommy Brown (Arapaho) (b. 1908) on similar subjects; Interview date: March 20, 1991

Includes partial transcript of interview with Josie Calhoun (Arapaho?) (b. 1904) on similar subjects; Interview date: January 24, 1991. Additional Subjects: childhood, grandparent parents, midwife

Includes partial transcript of interview with Eva Enos (Shoshone) (b. 1914) on similar subjects; Interview dates: January 25, 1991, March 13, 1991. Additional Subjects: Boarding school, St. Michael’s, “Gravy High,” Rapid City Indian School, beadwork, cradle boards

Includes partial transcript of interview with Eva Enos, Sidney and Alice Freese on similar subjects; Interview dates: January 29, 1991, March 14, 1991

Includes partial transcript of interview with Ben Friday, Sr. (Arapaho) (b. 1905) on similar subjects; Interview date: March 14, 1991

Includes partial transcript of interview with Chris and Caroline Goggles (Arapaho); Interview date: March 04, 1991

Includes partial transcript of interview with Vida Haukass (Shoshone) (b. October 01, 1929); Interview date: January 24, 1991

 1 5 Tommy Brown (Arapaho) (b. December 28, 1908); Interview date: March 20, 1991

Creators: Sharon Kahin with Sara Wiles

Subjects: St. Stephen’s school, language, discipline, traders, farming

 1 6 Josie Calhoun (Shoshone) (b. circa 1906); Interview date: January 24, 1991

Creator: Sharon Kahin

Subjects: Ft. Washakie school, ‘Countryman School’ (outside Crowheart), other schools

 1 7 Pete and Mrs. Davis (Chippewa) (Pete b. 1902); Interview date: January 25, 1991

Creator: Sharon Kahin

Subjects: Working for the Fort Washakie School, selling school produce, school closure and selling off stock, horse round-ups, vocational school (Haskell), bootlegging, prejudice, tipis and Lander rodeo, merchants and traders

 1 8 Eva [Felter] Enos (Arapaho) (b. circa 1915); Interview dates: January 25, 1991, March 13, 1991

Creator: Sharon Kahin

Subjects: January 25, 1991: St. Michael’s boarding school, Fort Washakie Government School, language, gardening, “boss farmers,” compares Rapid City school to Ft. Washakie

Subjects: March 13, 1991: Childhood toys, activities and work. Teacher’s aide, tourism, dances and camping, Great Depression survival strategies, WPA, sewing projects, cannery, soap making, and rations. Medicine men and peyote, alcoholism and smoking, California shipyards during WWII, tar paper shacks, wall tents as fire hazard, shade lodges.

 1 9 Frank Enos

Notes

 1 10 Sidney and Alice Freese (non-Indian Lander residents); Interview date: January 29, 1991

Creator: Sharon Kahin

Subjects: Changes in Sun Dance, parades in Lander, tourists, Lander rodeos with reenactments, boycott of Riverton merchants, dude ranching, Indian/non-Indian relations, cabin burning

 1 11 Ben Friday Sr. (Arapaho) (b. circa 1904); Interview date: April 14, 1991

Creators: Sharon Kahin with Sarah Wiles

Subjects: Fort Washakie Government school, language at schools, discipline

 1 12 Chris (b. October 28, 1924) and Caroline (b. April 03, 1930) Goggles (Arapaho) with Bernadette Oberly (Shoshone); Interview date: March 04, 1991

Creator: Sharon Kahin

Subjects: Boarding school for girls at St. Michael’s Mission, living arrangements, language, chores, uniforms. School in Lander, basketball, teenage pregnancy, alcohol, gender issues, extension programs, 4H, mattress factory, gardening, medical ailments (trachoma and tuberculosis, lice and nits, cod liver oil). Bible study, disciplinarians from WWI, learning military drills, hunting, CC and WPA projects, cannery at Arapahoe, government farming projects during the Depression, Drum and Bugle corps

 1 13 Vida [Brant] Haukaas (Shoshone) (b. October 01, 1929); Interview date: January 24, 1991

Creator: Sharon Kahin

Subjects: Orphans, “Robert’s Mission,” Shoshone Episcopal Girl’s School, classes and bible study, language issues, uniforms, cod liver oil, Christmas, missionary gifts

 1 14 Arnold (Arapaho) and Margaret Headley with Bernadette Oberly (Shoshone); Interview date: April 14, 1991

Creator: Sharon Kahin

Subjects: Tribal origins and language, boarding school: Cheyenne and Sioux at school, basketball, punishment, etc. Tomahawk, Blackbird, and Buffalo Calves Lodges (and others), tattooing, language immersion camps, work as maintenance man at St. Stephens, Arapaho Council, CC camps, WAC, making butter and cheese, Hot Springs. Headley family history (Roaring Bull – fought Custer)

 1 15 Lillian Hereford (Shoshone) (b. September 14, 1924); Interview dates: February 04, 1991, February 09, 1991

Creator: Sharon Kahin

Subjects: February 04, 1991:Medical ailments (including whooping cough and trachoma) and therapies, traditional Indian medicine and psychotherapies, alcoholism = “sick in the heart”. Dude ranching. Washakie school: farming taught at school, Christmas at school, Agric. Teacher, mental abuse, intertribal prejudice, runaways, language barrier. “Good Citizen Cash Store,” Ft. Washakie day school, beadwork, arts and crafts and the Depression, “plague” (tick fever – prairie dogs), Government Issue goods, GI branding, prejudicial treatment in Lander.

Subjects: February 09, 1991: AIM at Wind River, “FI” brand on furniture, traditional foods, pemmican, drugs, diabetes, Public Health, Tudi Roberts, Indian games described: gambling, “basket game” “Squaw game” etc. Native American Church, Sun Dances, language barriers, family life, dance halls, thanksgiving, Great Depression: gardening, knitting, CCC camps, beadwork. Explanation of symbols: Water Bird and Thunder birds, family designs, colors and personality, beading for the church

 1 16 Lou Meeks

Handwritten notes of interview – no biographical information, no information on interview dates, creator, or subjects

 1 17 Val Norman (?) (b. February 15, ?); Interview date: February 02, 1991

Creator: Sharon Kahin

Subjects: Boarding school, day school: farming, military discipline, drill teams of ex-Calvary troopers, runaways, “block house” as discipline, army issue, medical issues (trachoma, TB), language barriers, gardening, homesickness, kindergarten, making beds, long term effects, police and school disciplinarians. Dances, holidays, losing traditions, powwows

 1 18 Lizzie Panzetanga (Shoshone?) (b. 1923); Interview date: February 04, 1991

Creator: Sharon Kahin

Subjects: Christmas at Robert’s Mission, class schedules, Rev. Robert’s family, layout of the mission, uniforms. Visits to the hot springs, living in a wall-tent, language, alcohol

 1 19 Dorothy [Sirrell] Peche (Shoshone) (b. 1911) and Zedora Enos (Shoshone); Interview date: March 08, 1991

Creator: Sharon Kahin

Subjects: Ft. Washakie Government school, bullying, language problems, drills, sex, dormitories, “jail,” Cheyenne students, lice, cutting hair, sewing uniforms, government issue clothing, medical issues and therapies (trachoma, menstrual problems), discipline (whipping students), Depression conditions, hunting and trapping, tent camps, CCC, square dances, dance halls

 1 20 Alberta Roberts (Shoshone) (b. 1929); Interview date: February 02, 1991

Creator: Sharon Kahin

Subjects: Robert’s Mission and government school: church on Mondays, home on weekends, language, cutting hair, Christmas, food, fresh milk, bathing, cod liver oil, polishing shoes, gardens, Countryman School, uniforms. Public school at Mill Creek, 4th of July in Lander, Martel’s Store, selling beadwork for CCC project, irrigation work, tourists at Sun Dance, transportation by buggy

 1 21 Dolly [Snyder] Rowan (Shoshone) (b. circa 1910); Interview date: Spring 1992

Creators: Sharon Kahin with Bernadette Oberly (Shoshone)

Subjects: Robert’s Mission: farming, classes and subjects, dormitory, bathing, chores, lice, language. Compares government school at Ft. Washakie and Indian Schools in Oregon.

 1 22 Hazel and Joe Sage (Arapaho) (b. not given); Interview date: April 22, 1991

Creator: Sharon Kahin

Subjects: St. Michael’s Episcopal School: living arrangements, school farm and chores, house mothers, sewing, carpentry, school store, military drill, uniforms, recreation, gardens, language. Early reservation housing, Great Depression, WPA work (both men and women), employment through St. Michael’s, beadwork, hunting during Depression. (Duplicate transcript included.)

 1 23 Julia [Aragon] Smith (incomplete) (Shoshone) (b. not given); Interview date: February 23, 1991

Creator: Anne Slater

Subjects: WPA, captured children

 1 24 Bea [Meyers] Snyder (Shoshone) (b. September 30, 1939); Interview date: April 01, 1991

Creator: Anne Slater

Subjects: Robert’s Mission, Christmas, uniforms, bus, government school, Countryman School, family history

 1 25 Daisey [Ballard] St. Clair (Shoshone) (b. not given); Interview date: not noted

Creator: Barbara Sage

Subjects: Family history, pow wows, traditional social dances, ‘squaw’ saddles, horse races, 4th of July in Lander, rabbit skin blankets, ‘Tunison’ money, Robert’s Mission, cattle ranching

 1 26 Darwin St. Clair (Shoshone) (b. August 04, 1933); Interview date: February 12, 1991

Creator: Sharon Kahin

Subjects: Government school, farming and dairy, language at school, CCC and WPA, roads and parks, trading, ranching, Flandreau

 1 27 Edgar and Pansy St. Clair (Shoshone) (b. not given); Interview date: June 30, 1991

Creators: Sharon Kahin with Zedora Enos

Subjects: Discipline at government boarding school, student death, new names, Ft. Washakie Day School, St. Michaels, Haskell, school cemetery

 1 28 Pansy [Hill] St. Clair (Shoshone) (b. 1935); Interview date: January 02, 1991

Creator: Sharon Kahin ? Anne Slater ?

Subjects: Robert’s Mission, Christmas, chores, sewing and darning, gathering eggs, language, only child from family sent to school: feeling like an outsider, foods, cod liver oil, sleeping arrangements, clothing. Indian stories, winter songs, grandparent’s roles, water, travel, selling moccasins, Sun Dances, intermarriage, brandings, community safety. Compare mission to government school

 1 29 Winnie [Welsh]> St. Clair (Arapaho) (b. not given); Interview date: January 09, 1991

Creator: Anne Slater

Subjects: St. Michael’s Mission, canvas dresses, learning English, chores, milking, family history. Father ranched for Rev. Roberts, cutting ice from the river, food, gardens, cooking, loom work. Rapid City Indian school. Ft. Washakie Government School. Social dances, J.K. Moore’s store, changes on the reservation, hospital work, Indian/non-Indian relations

 1 30 Marjorie Tillman (Shoshone) (b. 1920); Interview date: January 07, 1991

Creator: Sharon Kahin

Subjects: Robert’s Mission, daily prayers, self-supporting, chores, food, living in a wall tent. Government school, “Gravy High”, chores, food. Working in a hospital, tanning hides, beadwork for WPA. Quilts, dances, boarding school to day school changes.

 1 31 Verna and Bill Thunder (Arapaho?) (b. not given); Interview date: April 15, 1991

Creator: Sharon Kahin with Bernadette Oberly (Shoshone)

Subjects: Lander High School, St. Michaels, self-supporting, speaking ‘Indian’, paddle-line punishment, uniforms and clothing, vocational skills, lice, kerosene treatments, cottage and dorm system, matrons and disciplinarians, glaucoma, other tribes, May Day, story-tellers at school, raising hogs, food and cod liver oil, embroidery. Community hall, Great Depression

 1 32 Orlean Ute (Shoshone) (b. not given); Interview date: February 23, 1991

Creator: Anne Slater

Subjects: Childbirth, menstrual huts, Robert’s Mission school, clothing, cutting hair/braid, language, hunting, drying vegetables. Chores at home, raising hogs, traditional foods, farming, helping neighbors

 1 33 Angeline Wagon (incomplete) (Shoshone) (b. not given); Interview date: February 23, 1991

Creator: Anne Slater

Subjects: Nanny Barney (maternal grandmother), Tunnison money, farming, government school, dorm-life, sewing and beadwork

 1 34 Nellie Washakie (non-Indian married to Shoshone) (b. not given); Interview date: January 10, 1991

Creator: Sharon Kahin

Subjects: Tim McCoy, husband’s experience transferring from traditional home to school, life in a tent, drying squash and meat, dances, Sun Dance, Women’s dance, Indian medicines, horsetail grass, dirt from a mole hill. Drugs, alcohol, ‘sorcery and witchcraft.’ Teen suicide, language and religion prohibitions, problems with per capita payments

 1 35 Marie Washakie (Shoshone) (b. 1910); Interview date: January 19, 1991

Creator: Sharon Kahin

Subjects: Family history, Josie Trahill (mother’s maiden name), childhood deaths, pneumonia, tick fever. Police, government school, chores, raising a garden, runaways, punishment, school calendar, Indian employees, boy’s jobs, calisthenics, sports, uniforms, food. Life in a frame tent, cleaning at the Agency (job), selling beadwork for money, berry picking, traditional foods, harvesting, preparing, medicinal plants. Gamblers, squaw games, hand games

 1 36 Star Weed (Shoshone) (b. 1919); Interview date: November 1992

Creator: Sharon Kahin

Subjects: Speech written for the government school when he was on the board, read by Sharon Kahin. Robert’s Mission, history of the reservation, family history, Yellow Hands vision, Native American Church, working as a council member. Government school, language, clothes. War Dance, Wolf Dance, Sun Dance. Drying beef. Tourists. Community dances and dance hall. Sham battles. Togowotee. Much of Mr. Weed’s interview pertains to identifying and describing photographs that were taken by Chittim around 1896. (These images are in the collection of the Dubois Museum.)

 Series III. Exhibit Catalogs 1 37 Exhibit I Catalog: Through the Eyes of Tsutukwanah: A Photographic History of the Reservation Shoshone, 1868-1945 1 38 Exhibit II Catalog: From Trout Creek to Gravy High: The Boarding School Experience at Wind River

(also includes draft and DVD of the exhibit)

 Series IV. Interviews Recorded on Cassette Tapes Recording and Reproduction Characteristics

Audiocassette tapes

 2 Aragon Smith, Julia February 23, 1991

one cassette

 2 Bonatsie, Lucy January 08, 1991

two cassettes

 2 Brown, Tommy March 20, 1991

one cassette

 2 Calhoun, Josie January 24, 1991

one cassette

 2 Davis, Pete January 25, 1991

one cassette

 2 Enos, Eva January 25, 1991, March 13, 1991

two cassettes each

 2 Freese, Sidney and Alice January 29, 1991

two cassettes

 2 Friday, Ben April 14, 1991

one cassette

 2 Goggles, Chris and Caroline March 04, 1991

two cassettes

 2 Haukaas, Vida January 24, 1991

one cassette

 2 Headley, Arnold April 14, 1991

one cassette

 2 Headley, Margaret April 14, 1991

one cassette

 2 Hereford, Lillian February 04, 1991, February 09, 1991

two cassettes each

 2 Moss, Paul March 20, 1991

one cassette

 2 Norman, Val February 02, 1991

two cassettes

 2 Panzetangua, Lizzie February 04, 1991

one cassette

 2 Peche, Dorothy March 07, 1991

two cassettes

 2 Roberts, Alberta February 02, 1991

one cassette

 2 Rowan, Dolly January 10, 1991

one cassette

 2 Sage, Joe and Hazel April 22, 1991

two cassettes

 2 Snyder, Belverda (Bea) April 01, 1991

one cassette

 2 St. Clair, Daisy undated

one cassette

 2 St. Clair, Darwin February 12, 1991

one cassette

 2 St. Clair, Edgar June 30, 1991

one cassette

 2 St. Clair, Pansy January 07, 1991, January 09, 1991

one cassette each

 2 St. Clair, Winnie (“photos”) Fall 1990, December 06, 1990, January 09, 1991

four cassettes in all

 2 Thunder, Verna and Bill April 15, 1991

one cassette

 2 Tillman, Ethel January 30, 1991

two cassettes

 2 Tillman, Marjorie January 27, 1991

one cassette

 2 Ute, Orlean February 23, 1991

one cassette

 2 Wagon, Angeline February 23, 1991

one cassette

 2 Wagon, Suzette November 01, 1990

two cassettes

 2 Washakie, Marie January 19, 1991

two cassettes

 2 Washakie, Nellie January 10, 1991

two cassettes

 2 Weed, Herman and Ina January 07, 1991

one cassette

 2 Weed, Star November 15, 1992

four cassettes

 Series V. Valley of Three Worlds Project Arapaho Stories (Tapes 10, 11, 19): 3 1 Transcript of Tape #10; Date recorded: circa June 13, 1974

Speakers: Gabriel Warren, Ben Friday, Sr., Ralph W. Antelope

Translator: Helen Cedartree 1987

English transcription: not noted

Subjects: Songs, stories of Arapaho women taken captive by Utes, story of Thunder Gun, Fort Fetterman fight

 3 1 Transcript of Tape #11; Date recorded: undated

Speaker: Mae Cleveland

Translator: Helen Cedartree 1987

English transcription: Sara Hunter-Wiles 1987

Subjects: Night legends and stories, The Apostle’s creed and Lord’s Prayer, blood clot boy, etc.

 3 1 Transcript of Tape #19; Date recorded: September 26, 1974

Speakers: Josephine Brown, Inez Oldman, Frances Brown, Frances and Eva C’Hair, Margaret Spoonhunt

Translator: Helen Cedartree 1987

English transcription: Sara Hunter-Wiles 1987

Subjects: Arapaho legends (comb bag, stick bouncing game); opinions of Wyoming Indian High School

 3 2 Vernon (Arapaho) and Adeline (Shoshone) Armour (V.A. b. circa 1912; A.A. b. circa 1922); Interview date: March 30, 1987

Creator: Chester Pingree, Jr.

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 3 Vernon Armour (Arapaho) (b. circa 1912); Interview date: March 30, 1987

Creator: Chester Pingree, Jr.

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 4 Philip Bear (Arapaho) (b. January 14, 1920)

Biography form

 3 5 Mary Behan (Arapaho) (b. not given); Interview date: December 10, 1986

Creator: Mary Ann Duran

S. Kahin index of interview

 3 6 Mary Kate Behan (Arapaho) (b. December 08, 1925); Interview date: February 26, 1987

Creator: Burnett WhitePlume

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 7 Behan, Marie (Arapaho) (b. August 05, 1930)

Biography form

 3 8 Agnes Bell (Arapaho) (b. September 18, 1893); Interview date: May 11, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 9 Anthony Bell (Arapaho) (b. June 10, 1913); Interview date: March 10, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 10 Vincent Bell (Arapaho) (b. November 15, 1919); Interview date: May 15, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 11 Lucy Bonatsie and Raphaelita Stump (Shoshone) (b. circa 1911); Interview date: November 15, 1986

Creator: Sharon Kahin

S. Kahin index of interview

 3 12 Donna Jean Boyle (non-Indian) (b. October 11, 1930); Interview date: March 12, 1987

Creator: Sharon Bryant

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 13 Nannie [Ute] Brown (Arapaho) (b. not given); Interview date: April 10, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

S. Kahin index of interview

 3 14 Margaret [Bear] Brown (Arapaho) (b. May 30, 1923)

Biography form

 3 15 Charles Bryant (non-Indian) (b. not given); Interview date: March 29, 1987

Creator: Sharon Bryant

Subjects: Water issues. S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 16 Fred Bryson (Arapaho) (b. May 21, 1901); Interview date: April 10, 1987

Creator: Sharon Kahin

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 17 Florence [Freeman] Burgess (b. not given)

Biography form

 3 18 Bud Burnaugh (Northern Cheyenne, listed as Shoshone) (b. circa 1900); Interview date: March 23, 1987

Creator: Loren Jost

S. Kahin index of interview

 3 19 Esther [Collins] Chamberlin (Mixed) (b. 1899); Interview date: August 25, 1976

Creator: Bob Peck

S. Kahin index of interview

 3 20 Marie [Washakie] Chavez (Shoshone) (b. August 06, 1910); Interview date: December 19, 1986

Creator: Zedora Enos

S. Kahin index of interview

 3 21 Velma [St. Clair] Chavez (Shoshone) (b. May 05, 1930)

Biography form

 3 22 Mary [Goggles] Cleveland (Arapaho); Interview date: April 09, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 23 Isaac Coando (Shoshone) (b. circa 1915); Interview date: March 20, 1987

Creator: Chester Pingree, Jr.

S. Kahin index of interview

 3 24 Tinnie Coando (Shoshone) (b. not given); Interview date: June 01, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

S. Kahin handwritten draft index of interview

3 25 Flora [Goodman] Dewey (Arapaho) (b. November 21, 1910)

Biography form

 3 26 Elizur “Wilbur” Dewey (Arapaho) (b. April 04, 1934)

Biography form

 3 27 Mark Dewey (Arapaho) (b. May 10, 1931); Interview date: April 06, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 28 Estelle [Friday] Dodge (Arapaho) (b. April 07, 1932)

Biography form

 3 29 Susanna [Moss] Behan Dress (Arapaho) (b. June 07, 1903); Interview date: December 05, 1986

Creator: Mary Ann Durn

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 30 Charles Raymond Gambler (Arapaho) (b. December 14, 1930); Interview date: March 06, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 31 Dorothy [Whiteplume] Gambler (Arapaho) (b. August 03, 1935)

Biography form

 3 32 Ben George (Bulgarian prospector) (b. not given); Interview date: November 19, 1986

Creator: Sharon Kahin

S. Kahin index of interview

 3 33 Emma Goggles (Arapaho) (b. March 15, 1916); Interview date: November 14, 1986

Creator: Mary Ann Duran

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 34 Joseph Goggles, Jr. (Arapaho) (b. March 05, 1914)

Biography form

 3 35 Jeri Greeves (b. not given)

Empty folder

 3 36 Mike Guilford (non-Indian?) (b. circa 1908); Interview date: Fall 1986

Creator: Sharon Kahin

S. Kahin notes from interview that was not recorded

 3 37 Millie [Hill] Guina (Shoshone) (b. October 20, 1912); Interview date: November 16, 1986

Creator: Sharon Kahin

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 38 Bob Harris (Shoshone) (b. circa 1911); Interview date: March 26, 1987

Creator: Dian Troyer

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 39 Dolores Jean [Winchester] Haslam (non-Indian) (b. July 26, 1939); Interview date: April 13, 1987

Creator: Barbara Sage

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 40 Arnold Headley (Arapaho) (b. March 08, 1922); Interview date: March 11, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 41 Viola [Wesaw] Hill “Mary Barney” (Shoshone) (b. March 01, 1906); Interview date: November 1986

Creator: Kassel Weeks

Translator: Leola Nagitsy

Full transcript of interview, biography form

 3 42 Floyd Hungary (Arapaho) (b. August 09, 1927); Interview date: June 17, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

Handwritten index of interview, biography form

Bad tape

 3 43 Burton Hutchinson, Sr. (Arapaho) (b. May 15, 1929); Interview date: March 13, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 44 Irene [Tillman] Jarvis Quina (Shoshone) (b. March 16, 1923); Interview date: November 12, 1986

Creator: Kassel Weeks

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 45 George Jenkins (Arapaho?) (b. September 09, 1912)

Biography form

 3 46 Henry Jensin (non-Indian) (b. May 04, 1909); Interview date: November 21, 1986

Creator: Loren Jost

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 47 Lawrence “Ab” Large (Shoshone) (b. not given); Interview date: January 06, 1987

Creator: Carmen Hurtado

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 48 James E. Large, Sr. (Shoshone) (b. April 23, 1917)

Biography form

 3 49 Cecil “Slim” Lawrence (non-Indian) (b. 1899); Interview date: November 1986

Creator: Sharon Kahin

Handwritten notes of interview, biography form

 3 50 David Love (non-Indian) (b. not given); Interview date: April 03, 1987

Creator: Loren Jost

S. Kahin index of interview

Public program

 3 51 Louise [Blackburn] Lujan (Arapaho) (b. February 11, 1928); Interview date: May 29, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

Handwritten index of interview, biography form

 3 52 Bill Marion (non-Indian) (b. not given); Interview date: June 21, 1961

Creator: Esther Mockler

S. Kahin index of interview

For radio program: Fremont County early history

 3 52 Bill Marion (non-Indian) (b. not given); Interview date: 1961

Creator: Esther Mockler

S. Kahin index of interview

For radio program “Listen Ladies” discussing Ed Young

 3 53 Lucille [Calhoun] McAdams (Shoshone?) (b. March 16, 1932)

Biography form

 3 54 Frank L. Meade (Cherokee) (b. March 04, 1936); Interview date: May 29, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

Poor quality Xerox of handwritten index of interview, biography form

 3 55 Harriet McIntosh (non-Indian) (b. 1914); Interview date: November 12, 1986

Creator: Sharon Kahin

S. Kahin index of interview

 3 56 Lowell Morfeld (and Florence [Harrison] Freeman) (non-Indian); Interview dates: April 12, 1987, April 19, 1987

Creator: Sharon Bryant

Handwritten index of interviews (Morfeld’s incomplete); biography form on Morfeld

 3 57 Paul Moss (Arapaho) (b. not given); Interview date: Spring 1992

Creators: Sharon Kahin and Sarah Wiles

Transcription of interview (probably belongs with WVHP files)

 3 58 Paul Moss (Arapaho) (b. not given); Interview date: February 19, 1987

Creator: Burnette Whiteplume

Handwritten index of interview

 3 59 Elizabeth [Washakie] Nagoshoah (Shoshone?) (b. May 01, 1915)

Biography form

 3 60 Ellis Newell (non-Indian) (b. 1920); Interview date: July 31, 1976

Creator: Fred Stratton, Jr.

S. Kahin index of interview

 3 61 Dutch Knipper (b. not given); Interview date: June 03, 1983

Creator: Sharon Kahin

S. Kahin index of interview

 3 62 Doris [Antelope] Oldman (Arapaho) (b. October 05, 1936); Interview date: March 04, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 63 Inez [Yellow Calf ] Oldman (Arapaho) (b. May 17, 1903); Interview date: May 21, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

Poor copy of handwritten index of interview, biography form

 3 64 Walter “Jesse” Oldman (Arapaho) (b. July 30, 1914)

Biography form

 3 65 John Baptiste Oldman (Arapaho) (b. May 06, 1922); Interview date: March 31, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 66 Joseph Oldman (Arapaho) (b. not given); Interview date: March 31, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

S. Kahin index of interview

 3 67 Thomas Oldman, Sr. (Arapaho) (b. December 14, 1925); Interview date: April 01, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 68 Emil O’Neal (b. March 19, 1924)

Biography form

 3 69 Dorothy Owen, Sr. (Married to a Tribal Member) (b. May 23, 1932 ?); Interview date: May 29, 1987

Creator: Burnett Whiteplume

Biography forms

 3 70 Chester Pingree, Sr. (Shoshone) (b. not given); Interview date: March 21, 1987

Creator: Chester Pingree, Jr.

S. Kahin index of interview

 3 71 Irene [Hill] Pingree (Shoshone) (b. 1931); Interview date: November 17, 1986

Creator: Kassel Weeks

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 72 Mary [White Antelope] Piper (Arapaho) (b. June 01, 1914 ?); Interview date: May 11, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 73 Pius Moss (Arapaho) (b. not given); Interview date: undated

Creator: Mary Ann Duran

S. Kahin index of interview

 3 74 Ernest L. Posey (Shoshone) (b. October 22, 1919); Interview date: June 16, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

S. Kahin index of interview (handwritten), biography form

 3 75 Edlore Quiver (b. March 26, 1933); Interview date: June 18, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

Biography form

 Radio Programs: 3 76 Index of oral history presentations by Henry Hudson, Archie Ferris, Blanche Schroer, and J.K. Moore, Jr. circa 1950s

Indexed by Sharon Kahin

 3 76 Index of oral history presentation by members of the Fremont County Pioneer Association given October 13, 1953

Indexed by Sharon Kahin

 3 76 Ed Young “Listen Ladies,” KUVE Radio, Lander 1961

3 76 Excerpt from 1961 Radio interview by Esther Mockler with Jules Farlow 3 77 Gordon Read (b. 1912); Interview date: February 03, 1987

Creator: Sharon Kahin

S. Kahin index of interview

 3 78 Burnett Hugh Ridgley (Arapaho) (b. 1931); Interview date: April 03, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

S. Kahin index of interview

 3 79 Mary Louise Roberts (b. June 30, 1925)

Biography form

 3 80 Lovina Robson (b. December 20, 1890); Interview date: November 25, 1986

Creator: Loren Jost

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 81 Cleone Thunder (Arapaho) (b. not given); Interview date: January 19, 1987

Interviewed by Deborah Thunder

Transcript of interview, transcribed by Gail Bell, edited by Sherry Johnson, S. Kahin index of interview

 3 82 Mr. And Mrs. E.R. Schamber; Interview date: November 23, 1986

Creator: Sharon Kahin

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form, Mellette County history, clippings

 3 83 Blanche Schroer (b. 1907); Interview date: December 10, 1986

Creator: Sharon Kahin

S. Kahin index of interview

 3 84 Bob and Ora Seipt; Interview date: March 25, 1987

Creator: Sharon Kahin

Reconstructed interview from handwritten notes

 3 85 Alice Shoemaker (b. not given); Interview date: April 01, 1987

Creator: Barbara Shoemaker

S. Kahin index of interview

 3 86 Ina Smith (b. not given); Interview date: February 12, 1974

Creator: Bob Peck

S. Kahin index of interview

 3 87 Daisy St. Clair (Shoshone/Bannock) (b. June 18, 1906); Interview date: May 03, 1987

Creator: Barbara Sage

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 88 Martha Leclair Stagner (b. not given); Interview date: January 29, 1974

Creator: Bob Peck

S. Kahin index of interview

 3 89 Raphaelita Stump (Shoshone) (b. November 1911); Interview date: November 15, 1986

Creator: Sharon Kahin

S. Kahin index of interview

 3 90 Fritz and Tiny Stevens; Interview date: November 10, 1986

Creator: Sharon Kahin

S. Kahin index of interview

 3 91 Ernest Sun Rhodes, Sr. (Arapaho) (b. June 27, 1914); Interview date: February 19, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 92 Estelle [Duran] Sun Rhodes (Arapaho) (b. September 23, 1932); Interview date: April 30, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 93 Robert Sun Rhodes (Arapaho) (b. February 12, 1912); Interview date: April 07, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 94 Victoria [Warren] Sun Rhodes (Arapaho) (b. March 09, 1918); Interview date: February 19, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 95 Charles Thayer, Sr. (b. December 31, 1905); Interview date: June 01, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

Biography form

 3 96 Ethel Thompson (non-Indian); Interview date: November 11, 1986

Creator: Sharon Kahin

Transcript of interview, transcribed by Gail Bell and Sherry Johnson

 3 97 Bessie Tidzump (b. June 20, 1916); Interview date: January 06, 1987

Creator: Carmen Hurtado

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 98 Ethel G. [Wesaw] Tillman (Shoshone) (b. September 23, 1904); Interview date: November 13, 1986

Creator: Kassel Weeks

Transcription and translation of oral interview by Irene Pingree, S. Kahin index of interview

 3 99 Martha [Headley] Tyler (b. February 21, 1919); Interview date: May 15, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

Biography form

 3 100 Suzette Wagon (Shoshone) (b. not given); Interview dates: March 26, 1987, November 01, 1990

Creators: Anne Slater and Chester Pingree, Jr.

S. Kahin index of interview and transcript of interview

 3 101 Francis E. Warren (non-Indian) (b. not given); Interview date: March 10, 1981

Conducted by Helen M. Taylor for the Fremont C. Historical Society

Index of a tape by Mrs. Art E. Jones reading an article on Frances E. Warren and providing miscellaneous stories of early Riverton relating to Fenimore Chatterton

Indexed by S. Kahin

 3 102 Janet Warren (Arapaho) (b. April 22, 1907); Interview date: March 11, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

S. Kahin index of interview and biography form

 3 103 John A. Warren, Sr. (b. February 13, 1930); Interview date: May 14, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

Biography form

 3 104 Daisy Watt (b. not given); Interview date: January 24, 1974

Creator: Bob Peck

S. Kahin index of interview

 3 105 Ina and Herman Weed (Shoshone); Interview date: January 07, 1991

Creator: Anne Slater

Transcript of interview, S. Kahin index of interview, biography forms

 3 106 Mildred Weeks (b. June 23, 1923); Interview date: November 18, 1986

Creator: Kassel Weeks

Biography form

 3 107 Blondell Whitehead and Irene Pecoraro; Interview date: November 12, 1986

Creator: Sharon Kahin

S. Kahin index of interview

 3 108 Ernest Whiteman, Jr. (Arapaho) (b. November 13, 1924); Interview date: April 20, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 109 Felix Whiteman (b. November 18, 1921); Interview date: June 08, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

Biography form

 3 110 Mary Ann Welch Whiteman (b. May 21, 1934); Interview date: April 07, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 111 Jake Whiteplume (Arapaho) (b. not given); Interview date: March 07, 1987

Creator: Burnett Whiteplume

S. Kahin index of interview

 3 112 Martha Williamson (b. not given); Interview date: November 25, 1986

Creator: Sharon Kahin

S. Kahin index of interview

 3 113 Clina Willow (Arapaho) (b. July 13, 1919); Interview date: April 30, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 114 Richard Albert Willow (Arapaho) (b. March 24, 1911); Interview date: May 12, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 115 Hazel Winchester (b. October 29, 1912); Interview date: April 28, 1987

Creator: Barbara Sage

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

 3 116 Felix Wolf (Arapaho) (b. 1917); Interview date: April 10, 1987

Creator: Sharon Kahin

S. Kahin index of interview

 3 117 Mary Wolfrang (Arapaho) (b. June 25, 1925); Interview date: April 06, 1987

Creator: Susan Crazy Thunder

S. Kahin index of interview, biography form

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