Lois Whitney - Oral history (05/2011)

Lois Whitney - Oral history (05/2011)

Oral history interview with Lois Whitney, Western Shoshone from Elko, NV, on 05/2011

Lois Whitney was born in Elko, Nevada along with her children and mother “Liz” Brady. Her family hails from all over the Western Shoshone territory. Her presentation goes over the different types of plants that are indigenous to the Great Basin area, and how they were used by the native people in the area. As Lois says, her presentation was to “talk a little about the physical, the emotional, and spiritual healing” characteristics of the plants as well as how they were used by the Native peoples. She also speaks a little about other items within her presentation as well.

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Read Lois Whitney Oral History Transcript [pdf file]

Great Basin Indian Archives

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Great Basin Indian Archives

05/2011 [May 2011]; 2011 May

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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Consent form on file (administrator access only): http://humanities.gbcnv.edu/omeka/admin/items/show/352

English; some Shoshoni

Norm Cavanaugh

Lois Whitney

Great Basin College Campus (Elko, NV)

http://humanities.gbcnv.edu/omeka/admin/files/show/572

DVD and VOB format

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