Gulf Coast Regional
Date2/7/2004
ClassificationsArchive
Credit LineCitizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Heritage Center
Object number020704-5
DescriptionHouston, TXCollections
Finding AidTimeCode Shot
0.00.22.00 >>>Barbara Twining-*Bergeron- Parent - Robert Osterloh GP - Mary Bergeron / Osterloh
0.00.52.00 Dad was born in Trousdale. GM went to Sac Heart.
0.01.52.00 Barbara grew up in OK till 5 then moved to TX During the Depression in 40 or 41 moved.
0.02.47.00 Father was a shoe sales man went to work for Foley's0207
0.03.25.00 Elmer Osterloh was Uncle and went to TX also.
0.04.05.00 Had a half sister and brother. Married a KS man. Children two.
0.04.54.00 Just remembers her father talking a little about Trousdale OK. GF was a farmer and preacher.
0.05.48.00 >>>Patricia Ann Webb Dobesh-* Petifer Parent-Lorena Webb Petifer GP- Pat Petifer
0.06.00.00 Didn't talk about being NDN. Peggy Petifer would know more.
0.06.47.00 Born in AR, moved to TX in third grade. One son.
0.07.20.00 Became involved when aunt researched heritage. Make it to most meetings.
0.08.05.00 >>>Buddy Osborne-*Willmet Parent- Charolette Norine Pockrus GP- Florence Pratt
0.08.17.00 Mother and brothers born and raised around Maud. Remembers GP Pratt was still living on allotment and had a gas station.
0.09.05.00 Ceciel Pratt had property. Use to go help him with cattle on weekends. Old homestead
0.10.00.00 didn't understand heritage for a long time. Didn't talk about NDN heritage.
0.10.26.00 HS Grad in 1964 met wife. Have two children daughter and son. Daughter present Kristi Smith
0.11.07.00 Have four adopted Children
0.11.38.00 Into marine corp. everyone knew him as buddy. Mother didn't want people to know they were Pota.
0.12.39.00 Went to USMC and told them he was NA. They didn't believe that he was NA.
0.14.07.00 >>>Rae White - *Smith Parent Rae White GP Louis Melosh
0.14.50.00 Parents lived in OK. Rae is the oldest child. Married has three children.
0.15.22.00 Went to OU. Oil field. Real grandgather was a Potawatomi.
0.15.57.00 Siblings-brother Allen White Sister Sarah Scott
0.16.37.00 Works for a CO. that was started by a Cherokee
0.17.30.00 >>>Regina Adele Elizabeth Turley Giles-*Toupin/Nadeau Parent Tegina Stovall Turley GP Elizabeth Mary Bowles Stovall
0.17.43.00 Named after a Toupin. Born in Billings Montana was the seventh child in a fam of eight only girl.
0.18.39.00 Regina after her mother. She was the line of NDN heritage. Father Irish. Four still living.
0.19.52.00 Mother died in 1999. She became the repository for the fam pics has many from P GP GGP (Follow up for Pictures)
0.20.18.00 Has pictures that are still tin type. GM went to Sac Heart has original Graduation Certificate and paintings (Follow UP)
0.21.51.00 Mary Elizabeth Stovall decided to go to Montana to homestead.
0.23.21.00 Regina's fathers sister thought Montana wasn't proper place for her to live in Montana and at 6 she went to live with aunt in Houston for a YR.
0.24.12.00 back and forth till HS went to Univ of TX. Now is a dentist. Married he had two daughters. Adopted a girl and hispanic boy.
0.26.09.00 Diverse household.
0.27.14.00 >>>Mona Bayless-*Toupin Parent Mary Evelyn Toupin GP Amable Toupin
0.27.35.00 Parents worked at NDN agency. Pauhuska. Mother had children was busy. She got her Education.
0.28.41.00 Daughter-Hormone story
0.30.45.00 Lives in Houston TX. Had a hard time being NDN White girl's were mean to her. Pinched her kicked her.
0.31.32.00 Was dark skin and people were mean to her. GGF was Paul Toupin. Son of Amable Toupin and Mary Margaret
0.32.15.00 Paul use to bring cattle up from Mexico and fatten them up and sell them.
0.33.48.00 Osage also. Thought she was going to get more $ from Pota's. She use to be on both rolls but had to decide.
0.34.42.00 Doris Dian Martin-*Toupin- daughter of Mona Bayless -She would yell out we're all NDN's to anyone. Knew since about three.
0.36.11.00 Enjoys coming to meetings.
0.36.50.00 Mothers brother had a lot of pictures.
0.38.29.00 Bob talks about Digital stuff. Veterans.
0.41.49.00 Doris talks about working in CA and meeting a Pota.
0.42.39.00 >>>Dorthy Nadine Thompson Bryan-*Bourbonnais Parent Aurelia Bourbonnais GP Mary Ann Anderson and Anthony Bourbonais
0.43.00.00 Born on NDN res. White Earth Lucille went to Sacred Heart as Orphan. Irene Rose Thompson buried in cem across for tribal grounds.
0.43.44.00 Parents married they went to WI. Working in foundry really hot. Got Pneumonia. Died Mother had three young children.
0.44.46.00 Mother came back to OK. To live with Mary Ann Bourbonnais. Lucille and Irene went off. Irene died. Mother picked up Lucille and went to Sac.Heart.
0.45.37.00 Married again moved to Tex in 1932. Knew she was NA. Was registered Chippewa
0.46.17.00 Issue of the How Ni Kan. This was about upcoming Pow-Wow. They came.
0.47.22.00 Did some research. Wanted to register four children. Chippewa said books are closed.
0.48.29.00 She visited with Rocky and he said come and join us. So enrolled the children.
0.49.49.00 Married 57 Years. Her husband was in Marine Corps. Had a date on V-Day. Took the girl's under a bridge and hat a weenie roost.
0.51.55.00 retired from HWY Patrol. He was a jeweler for years then changed professions. He is a special Texas Ranger. He loves the NDN's
0.53.19.00 Patricia talks about family Intro's her husband.
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