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Collection  U 016:
 Oral history interviews of the University of New Mexico American Indian Historical Research Project

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A

Narrator: Anonymous informant #1

Interview date:

 1970-11-08
Interview #: 

Interview length:

 minutes
Release?*: n

# audiotapes:

 0
Transcript?: y

# pages:

12
About narrator: A Navajo, of the Bitter Water clan.
Interviewer: Topper, Martin D.
Earliest year:

Latest year:

 1970
About interviewer:
Notes on interview: Continued on Nov. 9, 1970.
Major topics: Navajo Indians Corn harvest Tuba City (Ariz.)
*Note: No access is permitted until the release has been signed (which is designated by the letter y in that field).

 

Narrator: Anonymous informant #1

Interview date:

 1970-11-09
Interview #: 

Interview length:

 minutes
Release?*: n

# audiotapes:

 0
Transcript?: y

# pages:

9
About narrator:
Interviewer: Topper, Martin D.
Earliest year:

Latest year:

 1970
About interviewer:
Notes on interview: Continued from Nov. 8, 1970.
Major topics: Navajo Indians Sheep butchering Tuba City (Ariz.)
*Note: No access is permitted until the release has been signed (which is designated by the letter y in that field).

 

Narrator: Anonymous informant #1

Interview date:

 1971-02-15
Interview #: 

Interview length:

 minutes
Release?*: n

# audiotapes:

 0
Transcript?: y

# pages:

16
About narrator:
Interviewer: Topper, Martin D.
Earliest year:

Latest year:

 1971
About interviewer:
Notes on interview:
Major topics: Navajo Indians Wool--Carding, etc. Tuba City (Ariz.)
*Note: No access is permitted until the release has been signed (which is designated by the letter y in that field).

 

Narrator: Anonymous informant #1

Interview date:

 1971-02-17
Interview #: 

Interview length:

 minutes
Release?*: n

# audiotapes:

 0
Transcript?: y

# pages:

4
About narrator:
Interviewer: Topper, Martin D.
Earliest year:

Latest year:

 1971
About interviewer:
Notes on interview:
Major topics: Navajo Indians Home brew Tuba City (Ariz.)
*Note: No access is permitted until the release has been signed (which is designated by the letter y in that field).

 

Narrator: Anonymous informant #2

Interview date:

 1971-01-31
Interview #: 

Interview length:

 minutes
Release?*: n

# audiotapes:

 0
Transcript?: y

# pages:

23
About narrator: A Navajo, of the Red Ass clan.
Interviewer: Topper, Martin D.
Earliest year:

Latest year:

 1971
About interviewer:
Notes on interview:
Major topics: Navajo Indians Butchering livestock Tuba City (Ariz.)
*Note: No access is permitted until the release has been signed (which is designated by the letter y in that field).

 

Narrator: Anonymous informant #2

Interview date:

 1971-02-06
Interview #: 

Interview length:

 minutes
Release?*: n

# audiotapes:

 0
Transcript?: y

# pages:

23
About narrator:
Interviewer: Topper, Martin D.
Earliest year:

Latest year:

 1971
About interviewer:
Notes on interview:
Major topics: Navajo Indians Sheep shearing Tuba City (Ariz.)
*Note: No access is permitted until the release has been signed (which is designated by the letter y in that field).

 

Narrator: Anonymous informant #2

Interview date:

 1971-03-29
Interview #: 

Interview length:

 minutes
Release?*: n

# audiotapes:

 0
Transcript?: y

# pages:

15
About narrator:
Interviewer: Topper, Martin D.
Earliest year:

Latest year:

 1971
About interviewer:
Notes on interview:
Major topics: Navajo Indians--Women Hogans--Construction Tuba City (Ariz.)
*Note: No access is permitted until the release has been signed (which is designated by the letter y in that field).

 

Narrator: Anonymous informant #2

Interview date:

 1971-04-18
Interview #: 

Interview length:

 minutes
Release?*: n

# audiotapes:

 0
Transcript?: y

# pages:

14
About narrator:
Interviewer: Topper, Martin D.
Earliest year:

Latest year:

 1971
About interviewer:
Notes on interview:
Major topics: Navajo Indians--Women Weaving Tuba City (Ariz.)
*Note: No access is permitted until the release has been signed (which is designated by the letter y in that field).

 

Narrator: Anonymous informant #4

Interview date:

 1971-04-21
Interview #: 

Interview length:

 minutes
Release?*: n

# audiotapes:

 0
Transcript?: y

# pages:

20
About narrator: A Navajo, of the Red Ass clan.
Interviewer: Topper, Martin D.
Earliest year:

Latest year:

 1971
About interviewer:
Notes on interview:
Major topics: Navajo Indians--Women Weaving Tuba City (Ariz.)
*Note: No access is permitted until the release has been signed (which is designated by the letter y in that field).

 

Narrator: Anonymous informants #s 1-2

Interview date:

 1971-02-09
Interview #: 

Interview length:

 minutes
Release?*: n

# audiotapes:

 0
Transcript?: y

# pages:

23
About narrator:
Interviewer: Topper, Martin D.
Earliest year:

Latest year:

 1971
About interviewer:
Notes on interview:
Major topics: Navajo Indians Pinon nuts--Harvesting Tuba City (Ariz.)
*Note: No access is permitted until the release has been signed (which is designated by the letter y in that field).

 

Narrator: Anonymous informants #s 1-2

Interview date:

 1971-03-02
Interview #: 

Interview length:

 minutes
Release?*: n

# audiotapes:

 0
Transcript?: y

# pages:

42
About narrator:
Interviewer: Topper, Martin D.
Earliest year:

Latest year:

 1971
About interviewer:
Notes on interview:
Major topics: Navajo Indians Planting Tuba City (Ariz.)
*Note: No access is permitted until the release has been signed (which is designated by the letter y in that field).

 

Narrator: Anonymous informants #s 1-2

Interview date:

 1971-03-17
Interview #: 

Interview length:

 minutes
Release?*: n

# audiotapes:

 0
Transcript?: y

# pages:

47
About narrator:
Interviewer: Topper, Martin D.
Earliest year:

Latest year:

 1971
About interviewer:
Notes on interview:
Major topics: Navajo Indians--Crafts Arrow-making Tuba City (Ariz.)
*Note: No access is permitted until the release has been signed (which is designated by the letter y in that field).

 

Narrator: Anonymous informants #s 1-2, 4

Interview date:

 1971-03-07
Interview #: 

Interview length:

 minutes
Release?*: n

# audiotapes:

 0
Transcript?: y

# pages:

49
About narrator:
Interviewer: Topper, Martin D.
Earliest year:

Latest year:

 1971
About interviewer:
Notes on interview: Also on March 12, 1971; same topics.
Major topics: Navajo Indians--Crafts Moccasins--Manufacture Tuba City (Ariz.)
*Note: No access is permitted until the release has been signed (which is designated by the letter y in that field).

 

Narrator: Anonymous informants #s 2, 4

Interview date:

 1971-03-21
Interview #: 

Interview length:

 minutes
Release?*: n

# audiotapes:

 0
Transcript?: y

# pages:

51
About narrator:
Interviewer: Topper, Martin D.
Earliest year:

Latest year:

 1971
About interviewer:
Notes on interview: Also on March 23, 1971; same topics.
Major topics: Navajo Indians--Women Hogans--Construction Tuba City (Ariz.)
*Note: No access is permitted until the release has been signed (which is designated by the letter y in that field).

B

 

Narrator: Begay, Cecelia Hawthorne

Interview date:

 1988-03-20
Interview #: 

Interview length:

 minutes
Release?*: n

# audiotapes:

 0
Transcript?: y

# pages:

33
About narrator: Hopi mother, Navajo father.
Interviewer: Steinberg, Ruth
Earliest year:

Latest year:

 1988
About interviewer:
Notes on interview:
Major topics: Indians of North America--Education Indians of North America--Health care Wide Ruins (N.M.)
*Note: No access is permitted until the release has been signed (which is designated by the letter y in that field).

G

 

Narrator: Griggs,Charlotte Adele Slivers

Interview date:

 1988-04-10
Interview #: 

Interview length:

 minutes
Release?*: n

# audiotapes:

 0
Transcript?: y

# pages:

30
About narrator: Of the Bitter Water clan.
Interviewer: Steinberg, Ruth
Earliest year:

Latest year:

 1988
About interviewer:
Notes on interview:
Major topics: Navajo Indians--Health care World War, 1939-1945 Ganado (Ariz.)--History
*Note: No access is permitted until the release has been signed (which is designated by the letter y in that field).

J

 

Narrator: Jeans, Mary Hillis

Interview date:

 1988-04-26
Interview #: 

Interview length:

 minutes
Release?*: n

# audiotapes:

 0
Transcript?: y

# pages:

54
About narrator:
Interviewer: Steinberg, Ruth
Earliest year:

Latest year:

 1988
About interviewer:
Notes on interview:
Major topics: Navajo Indians--Education Nurses--Arizona Ganado (Ariz.)--History
*Note: No access is permitted until the release has been signed (which is designated by the letter y in that field).

M

 

Narrator: Miller, Pat Chee

Interview date:

 1988-04-09
Interview #: 

Interview length:

 minutes
Release?*: n

# audiotapes:

 0
Transcript?: y

# pages:

23
About narrator: Oldest son of Peggy Jane Chee of the Edge of the Water Clan. He died on Dec. 8, 2005, and was buried in Gallup, N.M.
Interviewer: Steinberg, Ruth
Earliest year:

Latest year:

 1988
About interviewer:
Notes on interview: This was among a group of interviews done by Ruth Steinberg for an Indian Oral History Project that Dick Ellis may have had some involvement with when he was at UNM before coming to FLC in the late 1980s. UNM Southwest Research Library does not have this interview.
Major topics: Navajo Indians--Ceremonies Native American Church Navajo Reservation
*Note: No access is permitted until the release has been signed (which is designated by the letter y in that field).

N

 

Narrator: Notah, Louise Lee

Interview date:

 1988-03-19
Interview #: 

Interview length:

 minutes
Release?*: n

# audiotapes:

 0
Transcript?: y

# pages:

26
About narrator: Part Navajo (of the Edge of Water clan), and part Zuni.
Interviewer: Steinberg, Ruth
Earliest year:

Latest year:

 1988
About interviewer:
Notes on interview:
Major topics: Indians of North America--Education Navajo Indians--Religion Chinle (Ariz.)--History
*Note: No access is permitted until the release has been signed (which is designated by the letter y in that field).

S

 

Narrator: Sakiestewa, Edith Blatchford

Interview date:

 1986-03-07
Interview #: 

Interview length:

 minutes
Release?*: n

# audiotapes:

 0
Transcript?: y

# pages:

21
About narrator: Anglo father, Navajo mother.
Interviewer: Steinberg, Ruth
Earliest year:

Latest year:

 1986
About interviewer:
Notes on interview:
Major topics: Navajo Indians--Education World War, 1939-1945--Civilian service Window Rock (Ariz.)
*Note: No access is permitted until the release has been signed (which is designated by the letter y in that field).

U

 

Narrator: Upshaw, Larena Cambridge

Interview date:

 1988-03-19
Interview #: 

Interview length:

 minutes
Release?*: n

# audiotapes:

 0
Transcript?: y

# pages:

43
About narrator:
Interviewer: Steinberg, Ruth
Earliest year:

Latest year:

 1988
About interviewer:
Notes on interview:
Major topics: Navajo Indians--Religion Indians of North America--Education Toedlena (N.M.)
*Note: No access is permitted until the release has been signed (which is designated by the letter y in that field).

W

 

Narrator: Waybenais, Myrtle Nellie Morse

Interview date:

 1988-04-11
Interview #: 

Interview length:

 minutes
Release?*: n

# audiotapes:

 0
Transcript?: y

# pages:

40
About narrator: Navajo, of the Close Water clan.
Interviewer: Steinberg, Ruth
Earliest year: 1909

Latest year:

 1988
About interviewer:
Notes on interview:
Major topics: Navajo Indians--Education Navajo Indians--Religion Window Rock (Ariz.)
*Note: No access is permitted until the release has been signed (which is designated by the letter y in that field).

 

Narrator: Wetherill, Marietta

Interview date:

 1953-09-01
Interview #: 

Interview length:

 minutes
Release?*: n

# audiotapes:

 0
Transcript?: y

# pages:

81
About narrator:
Interviewer: Blachly, Lou
Earliest year:

Latest year:

 1953
About interviewer:
Notes on interview: (Transcript was edited and organized partially on 2/27/97, but needs to be audited against the tape, because it contains several sections of duplicate text.)
Major topics: Navajo Indians--Race relations Archaeology--Colorado Chaco Canyon (Colo.)--History
*Note: No access is permitted until the release has been signed (which is designated by the letter y in that field).

Y

 

Narrator: Yasteya, Ernest

Interview date:

 1969-03-06
Interview #: 

Interview length:

 minutes
Release?*: n

# audiotapes:

 0
Transcript?: y

# pages:

23
About narrator: Property manager for the Santa Fe All Indian Band.
Interviewer: Husband, Michael B.
Earliest year:

Latest year:

 1969
About interviewer:
Notes on interview:
Major topics: Indians of North America--Bands Laguna (N.M.)
*Note: No access is permitted until the release has been signed (which is designated by the letter y in that field).

 

Narrator: Yazzie, Sophie

Interview date:

 1988-04-10
Interview #: 

Interview length:

 minutes
Release?*: n

# audiotapes:

 0
Transcript?: y

# pages:

32
About narrator: Of the Towering House clan.
Interviewer: Steinberg, Ruth
Earliest year:

Latest year:

 1988
About interviewer:
Notes on interview:
Major topics: Navajo Indians--Education World War, 1939-1945--Civilian service Canyon de Chelly (Ariz.)--History
*Note: No access is permitted until the release has been signed (which is designated by the letter y in that field).
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