Midwest Regional - Bob
Date3/27/2004
MediumSony [me]DVM80
Dimensions1:21:53
ClassificationsArchive
Credit LineCitizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Heritage Center
Object number032704-4
DescriptionTopeka, KSCollections
Finding AidTimeCode Shot
0.02.28.00 Joanie Hrenchir *Juneau, *Vieux, wrote book, lynching, Jim Thorpe
0.04.50.00 town called Indianola, bridge, Vieux cemetary
0.06.25.00 has CD of family pictures
0.07.45.00. Eilene Goodson *Juneau, *Vieux, grandmother bought school supplies for the kids, oil royalties
0.09.00.00 proud to be Indian, couldn't talk about it growing up, woman having baby while others went on, Lafromboise
0.11.00.00 loving family
0.11.40.00 Beverly Holly *Vieux, in law enforcement, family members in military
0.15.10.00 word to future generations
0.16.05.00 Thomas Wade Sr. *Vieux
0.17.00.00 Clara May George *Vieux
0.22.00.00 has letters, only oral history
0.23.30.00 James Dee Craig *Dike?, Janet & Jamie Craig (daughters), information has been lost - nothing written down
0.25.30.00 allotment land in OK, mineral rights
0.26.45.00 Janet Craig, Jamie Craig, both in education
0.28.50.00 James talking about 3rd daughter
0.30.00.00 bad Indian joke
0.31.00.00 Louise Hatfield *Bergeron?
0.32.45.00 Hubert Spalding *Vieux, talking about playing horseshoes, around Shawnee, Kansas City
0.36.50.00 cousin of Jim Thorpe
0.38.00.00 Golden Gloves boxer
0.39.00.00 in the Army, mortor squad in WWII
0.40.40.00 Leo Spalding *Vieux, also in WWII - met up with Hubert in Austria (out of focus)
0.41.50.00 basketball story - Hubert getting in fight for Leo, another fight story from Leo
0.44.25.00 Leo stationed various places in WWII
0.45.40.00 Hubert talks about D-Day, Leo talks about hedgerows
0.47.50.00 saw a concentration camp
0.49.28.00 rifles
0.50.00.00 operating room
0.50.40.00 Hubert talking about Tecumseh - aunt lived there
0.52.50.00 Great Depression, relatives in Perry, best watermelons, dust bowl, swimming in river
0.54.55.00 Barbara Jordan *Vieux, *Melot
0.56.40.00 Hubert talks about grandfather running a ferry for wagontrains going west across Blue River
0.59.05.00 Leo talking about Gene having Buergers disease, various limbs cut off, hit an umpire in a baseball game
032704-4 Timothy Joseph Hrenchir *Juneau, *Vieux, reporter for Topeka Capital Journal, lynching story
1.02.30.00 Mark Spalding *Vieux (out of focus), in Vietnam - communications, got worried after nine months
1.06.40.00 some guys today refusing to fight, suicide
1.07.00.00 Leo talking about war today - we don't belong there, Hubert talking about torpedos
1.08.30.00 Sara May Johnson *Lewis, jobs, cousins, geneology
1.12.40.00 Indian heritage
1.14.15.00 Betty Jean Simeeka *?, St. Mary's/Sacred Heart - Little Mary Bird? - husband from Austria, Wamego
1.17.40.00 Little Mary Bird froze to death, husband remarried
1.18.30.00 always known about Indian heritage, bother Carl is president of Native American Tribal Chamber of Commerce in Boulder, CO
1.19.15.00 other family members
1.21.00.00 message to future generations
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