Madeline S. Bill - Oral history (04/26/2015)

Madeline S. Bill - Oral history (04/26/2015)

Oral history interview with Madeline S. Bill, Western Shoshone from South Fork Reservation (Lee), NV on 04/26/2015

Madeline S. Bill was born and raised in Lee, South Fork Reservation and was one of fourteen children.  She begins her oral history by telling the audience about her father and great-great grandfather Tosawihi who was also born in the Lee area.  She talks about how Tosawihi used to gather white chert from north of Carlin, NV.  She also speaks about the wagon trains and Ruby Valley Treaty (1863), and the events that occurred therein.  She also speaks about the stories that the elder Shoshone people would talk about with her.
 
Interviewed by Norm Cavanaugh

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04/26/2015 [26 April 2015]; 2015 April 26

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

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English; some Shoshone

Norm Cavanaugh

Madeline S. Bill

South Fork Reservation (Lee), NV [Bill residence]

http://humanities.gbcnv.edu/omeka/admin/files/show/516

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