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Beatrice Medicine and unidentified speaker [Vine Delora Jr.?), oral interview

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Beatrice Medicine and unidentified speaker [Vine Delora Jr.?), oral interview

Title Beatrice Medicine and unidentified speaker [Vine Delora Jr.?), oral interview

Place Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota

Subject Dakota Indians, Indigenous peoples, Journalists, National Geographic, Oral histories

Description "Starts with unidentified man talking about tribal government of Sioux tribes – describes them as rife with petty theft, corruption, and revenge politics. Discusses Crazy Horse, partitioning of tribal lands.
Beatrice Medicine – faculty member at California State University, Northridge. She is interdisciplinary program coordinator between anthropology and American Indian Studies. She describes the challenges of finding indigenous instructors at the university level. Discusses how many more students at Northridge self-identify as Native American than actually have tribal documentation (355 vs 45). Discusses Jamake Highwater, as well as an instructor in her program who is “supposedly” Choctaw but unknown to other Mississippi Choctaw members. Discusses her background, born on Standing Rock reservation near Wakpala. She is Sihasapa and Hunkpapa, and her mother was part Miniconjou. Her father’s maternal grandfather was Cangi Iyokeata, “Sitting Crow,” who signed 1868 Sihasapa treaty. Her father and her son also have Sitting Crow as their Sioux name. Sihasapa became Catholic in first Sitting Crow’s time. They discuss a lawsuit she was involved with to keep her mother’s land. Discusses her father, Martin Medicine, and his friends Martin Cross and Jim Yellephant, who became citizens to serve in WWI and keep their land. Her father was a tribal chairperson, and his father, also Martin Medicine, had been a medicine man and clairvoyant. Discusses Ella and Susan “Susie” Deloria, distant cousins and friends of her mother. Discusses Beatrice Medicine’s education and career. Graduated South Dakota State University with scholarship assistance from BIA. Began teaching at Haskell Indian Nations University, then went to Michigan State and received MA in anthropology. Moved around the US and Canada for her and her ex-husband’s career. Their son is a steel sculpture artist based in Chicago. Discussion of indigenous cultural centers around the state of California, in Oakland, San Francisco, and Northridge. Ends with discussion of Medicine’s doctoral thesis work on alcoholism in Sioux populations, particularly its effects on women. "

Duration 1h39s

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

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Call Number Ayer Modern MS Josephy

BibID 9911612434105867

Size 138.83 MB

Original file name 9911612434105867_00000_00011.mp3

Unique Identifier NL1V686

Visibility Class Public

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