Ellison "Bombo" Jackson (01/27/2006)

Ellison "Bombo" Jackson (01/27/2006)

Oral History Interview with Ellison "Bombo" Jackson, Western Shoshone from Duck Valley NV, (01/27/2006)

Ellison Jackson was the son of Robert Jackson and Lena Jackson. He is best known by his Native name Bombo. Bombo tells us of his childhood growing up in a tent near the Presbyterian Church in Owyhee, Nevada. He also tells us of his experience at the Swayne School. Bombo also tells us about his buckaroo and cowboy days riding horses, and what his grandfather James Cavanaugh told him to expect. He also tell us a Shoshone tale about Coyote, the Shoshone, and the Paiute. Also tells us about another tale about the Sun, Brush Rabbit, and Cottontail.
 
Interviewed by Norm Cavanaugh

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Great Basin Indian Archive

Great Basin Indian Archive, GBIA 003A

Great Basin Indian Archives

01/27/2006 [27 January 2006]; 2006-01-27

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

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English

Norm Cavanaugh

Ellison "Bombo" Jackson

Owyhee Hospital, Owyhee, NV - Duck Valley Reservation

Transcript available: http://humanities.gbcnv.edu/omeka/files/original/ca19c29d24318e8927a3aa630ba1e8a3.pdf

DVD; VOB format

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