Doris Millet Allison - Oral history (04/22/2016)

Doris Millet Allison - Oral history (04/22/2016)

Oral history interview with Doris Millet Allison, Western Shoshone from Duckwater reservation, NV on 04/22/2016

Doris Millet Allison was born in Austin, NV and moved to Round Mountain, NV then eventually moved to Duckwater Reservation, NV when she was 8 years old.  Her grandfather originated from Maahadaquada Ghana (Smoky Valley, NV) and her grandmother’s family was part of the Yomba dicca (Yomba reservation).  She reminisces about her childhood and how the U.S. government used to come and take the Shoshone children including her sister which she never heard from again.  She illuminates the history of her family and the events therein.  She also speaks about her education from White Pine high school up to the judicial college in Reno, NV.  Doris also speaks about how the Duckwater Reservation came into being with the 1942 Indian Reservation Act.  She ends by saying, “We live in this society, a dominant society, but we should remember who we are (as Shoshone).”

Interviewed by Norm Cavanaugh

Great Basin Indian Archives

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Great Basin Indian Archives

04/22/2016 [22 April, 2016]; 2016 April 22

Norm Cavanaugh [interviewer]; James Hedrick [VHC/GBIA]; 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

Doris Allison

Duckwater Reservation (Allison residence)

http://humanities.gbcnv.edu/omeka/admin/files/show/525

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