Linda Capps Interview
Date3/1/2004
MediumSony [me]DVM60
Dimensions1:02:08
ClassificationsArchive
Credit LineCitizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Heritage Center
Object number030104-1
DescriptionLinda's officeCollections
Finding AidTimeCode Shot
0.01.30.00 Navarre family land
0.03.50.00 Navarres not related
0.05.00.00 grandfather
0.06.10.00 mother
0.11.50.00 history of Navarres goes back to France
0.15.50.00 Louis Navarre - story
0.17.35.00 Lena born, Gladys
0.18.30.00 Harrah Catholic cemetary
0.19.50.00 names are different
0.21.00.00 knowledge of Navarres starts w/ great great grandfather
0.23.20.00 Harrah good location
0.24.20.00 great hunter
0.25.30.00 hunting and fishing
0.26.00.00 grandfather was a carpenter, Fay had government job
0.26.40.00 had to be innovative
0.27.20.00 sister Julia, keep using names
0.27.30.00 Spencers
0.28.45.00 Robert & Lewis went together for town/school
0.30.00.0 Edward
0.30.55.00 we all live in OK
0.31.20.00 people dying
0.31.55.00 mother was housewife, dad was killed, 5 & Dime store, 7 kids
0.33.00.00 Indian heritage growing up
0.33.40.00 Claire Reynolds - teacher - school named after her
0.34.20.00 Thompson boys
0.35.40.00 tough time growing up
0.36.55.00 playing as children
0.38.00.00 no father, sports, salutitorian
0.39.20.00 sibling's names
0.43.35.00 pow wows - going as kids to McLoud
0.43.55.00 grandfather spoke some Potawatomi, singing, poems
0.44.40.00 Polish language
0.46.00.00 first association w/ tribe, first payment
0.47.45.00 college, graduating from HS, baptized
0.49.30.00 worked for OG&E, marriage, back to school
0.50.00.00 married 1965 Roy Capps, children
0.50.55.00 moved to Tecumseh
0.52.00.00 first Indian Education director, involvement w/ tribe
0.55.45.00 enjoy the work - just like family
0.56.45.00 progression of tribe
0.57.00.00 scholarships, other benefits to tribal members
0.58.00.00 growing pains, not much money
0.59.30.00 vision for future of tribe, scholarships, buying land, free from gaming & smokeshops
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1.01.20.00 cutaway shots