Gracie Begay - Oral history (06/27/2014)

Gracie Begay - Oral history (06/27/2014)

Oral history interview with Gracie Begay, Western Shoshone from Wells, NV, on 06/27/2014

Gracie Begay is a member of the Western Shoshone Te-Moak tribe in Wells, Nevada.  She was seventy-eight when this video was recorded.  Gracie speaks of her great-great-grandfather Captain Joe Gilbert and the people from Austin and Reese River (Yomba) who were moved by the Union Soldiers to the Battle Mountain colony in 1937.  She also tells of the camp that was at the Ricksie station near Beowawe, and how she and her relatives went to school there.   Gracie also goes on to tell about her involvement with the Danns, and how she went with them to the Supreme Court in Washington D.C.  She goes on to tell of the history of her family, and how she was involved with Indian Health Service and the Health Board for the Western Shoshone.  She ends by summarizing the importance of recording Shoshone history, and how it is a tool for future generations.

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06/27/2014 [27 June 2014]; 2014 June 27

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

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English; a little Shoshone

Norm Cavanaugh

Gracie Begay

Wells, NV [Begay residence; Wells Colony]

http://humanities.gbcnv.edu/omeka/admin/files/show/501

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