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Mary Louise Defender and Harriett Sky, oral interview
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Title
Mary Louise Defender and Harriett Sky, oral interview
Place
Montana
,
Nebraska
,
North Dakota
Subject
Dakota Indians
,
Indigenous peoples
,
Journalists
,
National Geographic
,
Oral histories
Description
"Unidentified female speaker
Says most reservations are isolated with few opportunities for employment, so many people venture into the city. Discussion of how everything is different – loss of security.
Look for each other in the city as a sense of home and security.
New Unidentified male Speaker – asked the same question.
This speaker works off of the reservation.
1st Unidentified woman believes AIM wanted to bring international attention to Indian struggles.
Discussing the issue of drinking
She is a concert pianist
Issue with jobs is because people on the reservation don’t have jobs in the western sense, so it creates cultural conflicts.
(18:00) Sacred Hoop discussion. Native people are still reeling from the coming of the white man. Native people need to be able to be free to express themselves.
Speaker stays Natives are still getting educated by whites but managing to keep their culture.
Jerry Wilkenson Discussion
Discussion of if the Welfare act is good or bad – Speaker believes It has served its purpose. It takes children off of reservation, put in white foster homes, and then matched with Indian families.
(28:30) Sounds like traditional music, drumming and dancing, singing. (36:00) Announcing names
New speaker – Mary Louise was born on grandfathers reservation.
Talking about capitol to build and expand.
She was able to get the money because she went off the reservation and made money, but she remembered her language.
Says people deprive full blood people of land that is rightfully theirs
Shes 52 – went to high school and went to 1 year at university of Kansas.
Learned about how the US administers land – believes teaching people about land is important.
(46:14) Talking about how their teachings tell them men are not above animals. White society is violent, and it negative affects the natives.
Loss of the language goes with the loss of the concept of everything.
Older people in the families are not encouraging the language.
If they wanted to give us the white mans government why didn’t they give us all the controls that went with it?
She says she doesn’t vote in tribal elections. Says tribal council is under control of the US government, not the traditional government.
She worked for a North Dakota Senator.
Discussion of the political parties in Canada, believes it is better than the two party system here.
Small land areas for Natives in Canada.
She sees grassroots movements coming about because people are dissatisfied.
Yellow Thunder Camp discussion
Met her husband in high school in late 40s early 50’s
Cuts off midsentance and recording ends. "
Duration
58m0s
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
132.79 MB
Original file name
9911612434105867_00000_00024.mp3
Unique Identifier
NL1V6EY
Visibility Class
Public
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