By Herbert S. Lewis
ISBN-10: 0803229437
ISBN-13: 9780803229433
ISBN-10: 0803280432
ISBN-13: 9780803280434
During this intimate quantity the long-lost voices of Wisconsin Oneida women and men converse of all points of existence: starting to be up, paintings and financial struggles, relatives relatives, trust and spiritual perform, boarding-school lifestyles, love, intercourse, activities, and politics. those voices are drawn from a set of handwritten debts lately rediscovered after greater than fifty years, the results of a WPA Federal Writers’ venture venture referred to as the Oneida Ethnological learn (1940–42) during which a dozen Oneida women and men have been employed to interview their households and associates and checklist their very own reviews and observations. Selected from greater than biographical narratives, those sixty-five chronicles, instructed by way of fifty-eight men and women, current an image of Oneida Indian existence from the Eighteen Eighties, ahead of the Dawes Allotment Act, via international battle I and the good melancholy, to the start of worldwide warfare II. regardless of the narrators' struggles opposed to harsh monetary stipulations, the robbery in their land, and overlook, their firsthand histories are rendered with frankness and wit and current a notable photograph of an period and a humans.
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Stadler King, one of the workers, wrote of his experience: During these times we were able to write our language and we can read it. We have made words for [an] Indian dictionary. We have written stories which we solicited from many of the Oneidas. Some of these stories are old stories from way back. Some are true stories that really did happen, and some of the stories are about the customs and belief of the Indians. We have translated all the Indian stories and the words for the dictionary into English.
All the groceries my father bought in the wintertime are beef, sugar, coffee, tea, oatmeal and cornmeal, apples, and crackers and cheese and candy. My father used to buy us only peppermint candy and stick candy, but he always brought us candy whenever he went to town. It seems as though we never got enough of sweet things because we got that only occasionally, and my mother divided the candy so that we all got an equal share. My mother did not know how to make a cake, but she could make good pies, cookies, and gingerbread.
The men came home one by one. That winter work was kind of scarce for the laboring men. I remember all my brothers were home that winter and my father’s two nephews were there, and my mother had two of her nephews come to stay with the old folks. My father could afford to keep all these men, because he had everything there to feed them with. He butchered two hogs and one cow that winter so they had plenty of meat. He put these men to cutting wood for him, and he sold some, and the rest he kept for home use.
Oneida Lives: Long-Lost Voices of the Wisconsin Oneidas (The Iroquoians and Their World) by Herbert S. Lewis
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