Kenneth Peltier Interview
Date3/9/2004
MediumSony [me]DVM60
Dimensions1:02:40
ClassificationsArchive
Credit LineCitizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Heritage Center
Object number030904-1
DescriptionConference Room B-165Collections
Finding AidTimeCode Shot
0.01.00.00 growing up on farm, mom canning, smokehouse
0.02.35.00 "scuffling in smokehouse, ""broke every bit of it"""
0.03.40.00 lived in Shawnee
0.04.15.00 shot .22, killed rabbits
0.04.45.00 Bethel school
0.05.30.00 grocer bought meat & helped in bad times
0.06.00.00 mom & dad, Indian blood, house, 5 sisters, 3 brothers
0.07.15.00 heritage, knowledge of Indian descent
0.07.50.00 repercussions at school
0.09.40.00 entertainment - singing
0.10.50.00 Indian neighbors
0.11.15.00 share crop, truck gardening
0.12.40.00 smokehouse (again)
0.13.50.00 didn't graduate, war broke out, brothers entering service, sister in WACs, wouldn't take him because of marriage
0.15.00.00 football, chores
0.15.50.00 riding on train
0.16.30.00 wouldn't let him in service (again), MYE school
0.17.50.00 welder at shipyard, foreman at 19 years old
0.19.00.00 Bull Lewis, pro football
0.19.30.00 draft board, threatened jail, drafgted, contact with brother on ship
0.21.00.00 brother, confrontation with Marine guard
0.23.25.00 family involved with tribe
0.26.00.00 Marshall (?), 5 deputies, stills - bootleg whiskey
0.27.00.00 Kenneth in office, Tinker AFB, brother Gerald, Grievence Committee
0.29.00.00 Secretary Treasurer
0.29.35.00 not much money in tribe, Bingo bandits, went to court
0.30.30.00 trailer house headquarters, administration office
0.31.30.00 first wife
0.33.05.00 takeover - Bingo hall
0.37.00.00 looking at family pictures
0.42.00.00 military pictures
0.43.25.00 ship hit by bomb, newspaper clipping, story
0.45.00.00 chow line
0.47.00.00 men jumping in with helmets on
0.48.00.00 bomb in restroom
0.49.45.00 Kamakazi
0.51.30.00 going down to look for something to eat, Chaplan asked for volunteers
0.52.30.00 survivors
0.52.50.00 too close to Japan, brave captain
0.53.30.00 towed out by cruiser
0.54.20.00 training, do your duty
0.55.00.00 wooden deck
0.55.30.00 photo of ship on fire
0.56.00.00 Kenneth pointing at newspaper clip, chow line (again)
0.56.30.00 can't remember what he was going down for
0.57.20.00 newspaper clip of statue of liberty
0.59.00.00 can't remember (again)
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1.00.00.00 photos, talk about Navy hats with Rocky
1.01.50.00 lie about age to get married