Ruby Sam - Oral history (04/22/2016)

Ruby Sam - Oral history (04/22/2016)

Oral history with Ruby Sam, Western Shoshone from Duckwater Reservation, NV on 04/22/2016

Oral History Interview with Ruby Sam, Western Shoshone from Duckwater Reservation, NV on 04/22/2016
This oral history contains significant Shoshone language conversation, and is recommended for usage by community language teachers.

Ruby Sam was born at the Indian Hospital in Schurz, NV (Walker River Reservation) and had 9 siblings.  Her father was Nelson Sam from Smoky Valley.  Ruby lived and went to school in Duckwater, NV until the eighth grade then attended Stewart Indian School which eventually resulted in her attending school in Lund, NV at the behest of her father.  As part of the 1956 Relocation Act, Ruby moved to Cleveland, OH and became a cosmologist.  She eventually moved back to the Duckwater Reservation and had a variety of jobs within the tribe there.  She ends her oral narrative by suggesting that the younger generation stay in and go to school.

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 [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; Shoshoni

Norm Cavanaugh

Ruby Sam

Duckwater Reservation, NV (Sam residence)

http://humanities.gbcnv.edu/omeka/admin/files/show/529

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