Byron White

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Byron White was born in Red Wing, Minnesota in 1940 to Martin and Elsie May White. Byron lives in Lake Elmo, Minnesota and is a tribal member of the Prairie Island Indian Community.

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“Let them eat grass.” Byron White \| Oral History	Theme: 1862 Topics: Perspectives on 1862, U.S. Government Keywords: Dakota and U.S. Gov't
Humanity sometimes is cruel. Byron White \| Oral History	Theme: 1862 Topics: Fort Snelling Keywords: Fort Snelling
They all stuck together no matter what. Byron White \| Oral History	Theme: Culture and Values Topics: Dakota Culture and Values, Growing Up Keywords: Helping Others
The lessons that they told almost made you ashamed to be Indian Byron White \| Oral History	Theme: Growing Up Topics: Growing Up, Dakota in White Systems, Education Keywords: School, Savage, History
Who said once, “Treaties are made to be broken.” Well, I guess they were right Byron White \| Oral History	Theme: Shared History Topics: Treaties Keywords: Treaties

Oral History- Interview | Narrator Byron White Interviewer Deborah Locke made in Lake Elmo, MN | Thursday, April 21, 2011

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