Ruby Sam - Oral history (04/22/2016)

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Title

Ruby Sam - Oral history (04/22/2016)

Subject

Oral history with Ruby Sam, Western Shoshone from Duckwater Reservation, NV on 04/22/2016

Description

Shoshone Language MarkerOral History Interview with Ruby Sam, Western Shoshone from Duckwater Reservation, NV on 04/22/2016
This oral history contains significant Shoshone language conversation, and is recommended for usage by community language teachers.

Ruby Sam was born at the Indian Hospital in Schurz, NV (Walker River Reservation) and had 9 siblings.  Her father was Nelson Sam from Smoky Valley.  Ruby lived and went to school in Duckwater, NV until the eighth grade then attended Stewart Indian School which eventually resulted in her attending school in Lund, NV at the behest of her father.  As part of the 1956 Relocation Act, Ruby moved to Cleveland, OH and became a cosmologist.  She eventually moved back to the Duckwater Reservation and had a variety of jobs within the tribe there.  She ends her oral narrative by suggesting that the younger generation stay in and go to school.

Interviewed by Norm Cavanaugh.

Creator

Great Basin Indian Archives

Source

Great Basin Indian Archives - GBIA 053

Publisher

Great Basin Indian Archives

Date

04/22/2016 [22 April 2016]; 2016 April 22

Contributor

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

Rights

Non-commercial scholarly and educational use only. Not to be reproduced or published without express permission. All rights reserved. Great Basin Indian Archives © 2017.
Consent form on file (administrator access only): http://humanities.gbcnv.edu/omeka/admin/items/show/346

Language

English; Shoshoni

Oral History Item Type Metadata

Interviewer

Norm Cavanaugh

Interviewee

Ruby Sam

Location

Duckwater Reservation, NV (Sam residence)

Transcription

http://humanities.gbcnv.edu/omeka/admin/files/show/529

Original Format

DVD, MP4, and AVI format

Duration

00:19:10

Files

Ruby Sam picture.jpg
GBIA 053 Ruby Sam 4-22-2016.pdf

Citation

Great Basin Indian Archives, “Ruby Sam - Oral history (04/22/2016),” Humanities Center at Great Basin College, accessed March 28, 2024, https://humanities.gbcnv.edu/omeka/items/show/290.

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