Keith Honaker - Oral history (03/09/2016)

Keith Honaker - Oral history (03/09/2016)

Oral history interview with Keith Honaker, Western Shoshone from Duckwater Reservation, NV on 03/09/2016

Keith Honaker was born at the Indian hospital in Schurz, NV in 1960.  His grandmother’s family is part of the Blackeye family, and his grandfather’s family is part of the Sam family.  He speaks about his experience as an Army brat, and how that contributed to his success later in life.  He also tells of his childhood speaking mostly Shoshoni, how he would listen to elder’s storytelling, and how difficult or unique it was growing up on the Duckwater Reservation.  He graduated from White Pine high school in Ely, NV, University of Nevada – Reno, NV with his Bachelor’s degree in teaching, and how he obtained his Master’s degree “out of necessity”.  Keith also speaks about his time teaching at the reservation as well as in New York.  Moreover, he tells his audience about the Relocation Act (1956) and the consequential creation of the American Indian Movement (AIM).

Great Basin Indian Archives

Great Basin Indian Archives - GBIA 056

Great Basin Indian Archives

03/09/2016 [09 March 2016]; 2016 March 09

Norm Cavanaugh [interviewer]; James Hedrick [GBIA/VHC]; Scott A. Gavorsky [VHC]; University of Utah SYLAP [streaming video]; Great Basin College; BARRICK Gold of North America

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English; some Shoshoni

Norm Cavanaugh

Keith Honaker

Duckwater Reservation, NV (Honaker residence)

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