Delaine George - Oral history (06/02/2016)

Delaine George - Oral history (06/02/2016)

Oral history interview with Delaine George, Western Shoshone from Duckwater Reservation, NV on 06/02/2016

Delaine George is a Shoshone from the Duckwater tribe, and she is part of the Adams family.  Her mother and father came from Beatty, NV.  She had 2 brother and 1 sister along with a lot of nieces, nephews, and grandsons.  She grew up in Duckwater with no water or electricity, but recalls when her siblings would go to a creek to fish and swim.  She then speaks about going to school in Currant, NV, Stewart Indian School, and then to Haskell Indian School among others.  She then speaks about the different occupations she had and how she traveled around and ended up back at Duckwater Reservation.

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Interviewed by Norm Cavanaugh

Great Basin Indian Archives

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Great Basin Indian Archives

06/02/2016 [02 June 2016]; 2016 June 02

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

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English

Norm Cavanaugh

Delaine George

Duckwater Reservation, NV [George residence]

http://humanities.gbcnv.edu/omeka/admin/files/show/558

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