Vivian Cinnabar - Oral history (11/24/2009)

Vivian Cinnabar - Oral history (11/24/2009)

Oral history interview with Vivian Cinnabar, Western Shoshone from Duck Valley Reservation (Owyhee, NV), on 11/24/2009

Vivian Cinnabar is a Western Shoshone who resided at Duck Valley Reservation (Owyhee, NV) the majority of her life. She starts her narrative by speaking about contact and conflict between the Western Shoshone and the emigrants who were coming into the area who started up ranches. She also tells about the formation of the Ruby Valley Treaty of 1863, the Duck Valley reservation and how it was originally set up to be completely Western Shoshone, and Carlin Farms. She also gives an account of her relative Captain Buck. The conversation then turns towards her time attending school. She first started at Owyhee and eventually ended up in Sherman Institute in Riverside, CA. She also describes how many of the people in Owyhee ended up attending Stewart Indian School. Vivian describes her time working as an engineer at the old hospital in Owyhee, and how she contract Tuberculosis (TB).

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11/24/2009 [24 November 2009]; 2009 November 24

Norm Cavanaugh [interviewer]; 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

Vivian Cinnabar

Elko, NV (Highland Village)

http://humanities.gbcnv.edu/omeka/admin/files/show/556

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