Dennis F. Pete Sr. - Oral history (04/15/2014)

Dennis F. Pete Sr. - Oral history (04/15/2014)

Oral history interview with Dennis F. Pete Sr., Western Shoshone from Duck Valley Reservation on 04/15/2014

Dennis F. Pete, Sr. was born at the Duck Valley Reservation (Owyhee, NV-ID) to Bessie and Alec Cleveland. He went to school in Owyhee also at the Swayne School where he would play basketball and football. Later in life he got married and moved to Pyramid Lake where he lived for 39 years. He currently lives in Owyhee. Dennis then addresses the hand games and how hand games are played, moreover he talks about some of the places he has traveled to attend hand games. He then plays a few circle dance songs for his audience.

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04/15/2014 [15 April 2014]; 2014 April 15

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; some Shoshoni

Norm Cavanaugh

Dennis F. Pete, Sr.

Duck Valley Reservation (Owyhee, NV-ID)

http://humanities.gbcnv.edu/omeka/admin/files/show/585

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