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Vivian Cinnabar - Oral history (11/24/2009)
Vivian Cinnabar is a Western Shoshone who resided at Duck Valley Reservation (Owyhee, NV) the majority of her life. She starts her narrative by speaking about contact and conflict between the Western Shoshone and the emigrants who were coming into…
Virginia Mae Jones - Oral history (06/2012)
Virginia Jones is a Shoshone-Paiute from the Duck Valley reservation. She begins her oral history by describing the different types of drums that she currently own and how they are used in powwows, hand games, or circle dancing. She also tells us…
Theresa Sam - Oral history (03/18/2016)
Oral History Interview with Theresa Sam, Western Shoshone from Duckwater Reservation, NV on 03/18/2016This oral history contains significant Shoshone language conversation, and is recommended for usage by community language teachers.
Theresa Sam is…
Shoshone Community Language Initiative (SCLI) Materials 2017
Materials, mainly pictures, related to the 2017 SCLI Summer Youth Program, which ran from 5 July through 4 August 2017.
Materials include:
1) Participants graduation photo, full size
2) Participants graduation photo, cropped to 600px wide for …
Materials include:
1) Participants graduation photo, full size
2) Participants graduation photo, cropped to 600px wide for …
Shawn L. Collins - Oral history (07/12/2017)
Shawn L. Collins addresses students at the Shoshone Community Language Initiative (SCLI) program at Great Basin College. Shawn L. Collins is a Western Shoshone from the South Fork area. He tells some of the stories of the Shoshone, about traditions…
Ruby Sam - Oral history (04/22/2016)
Oral History Interview with Ruby Sam, Western Shoshone from Duckwater Reservation, NV on 04/22/2016This oral history contains significant Shoshone language conversation, and is recommended for usage by community language teachers.
Ruby Sam was born…
Rosie Hall Jones - Oral history (04/14/2014)
Rosie Hall is a Western Shoshone from Duck Valley reservation (Owyhee, NV-ID). Her family came from various areas throughout the Great Basin region such as Ruby Valley and Paradise Valley. Her family was came from the Ainga diccada group. She…
Raymond Yowell IEN (Indigenous Environment Network) - Oral History (05/08/2006)
At the Indigenous Environment Network (IEN) meeting in Lee, NV on May 8, 2006 Raymond Yowell spoke of the Western Shoshone’s struggle with the United States. He recants the audience with the history of the Shoshone people explaining the various…
Raymond Yowell - Oral History (08/17/2007)
Raymond Yowell is a Shoshone who was born in Elko, Nevada on September 23, 1929. He spoke of his birth and the eventual adoption by his relative Frank and Annie Charley from Smoky Valley. Raymond also spoke of traditional medicines, traditional…
Program for 2016 Elder Oral History Showing
Program for the 2016 Elder Oral History Showing event on 18 August 2016 at Great Basin College in Elko, NV.