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David Pashe I hadn't realized I was an Indian Growing Up Growing Up, Family, Dakota History, Dakota Language and Culture, Spirituality, Christianity Family, History, Spirituality, Christianity Oral History
Marina James We learned how to skate and slide down the hill Growing Up Growing Up, Family, Work Work, Medicine Oral History
Marina James She knew all the different roots Growing Up Family, Dakota Culture and Values Spirituality, Medicine Oral History
We had to work to do it Growing Up Growing Up, Family, Education Oral History, Education, History, Survival Oral History
Leslie Smoke There was something more to it Growing Up Growing Up, Boarding School, Dakota Culture and Values School, Culture, Work Oral History
Albert Taylor You gotta gargle and then you gotta drink that to clean Growing Up Growing Up Dakota, Boarding Schools, Language Boarding School, Language Oral History
Elsie Noel We had signs on every door that said "Speak English" Growing Up Growing Up, Family, Boarding School, Dakota Culture and Values School, Mounties, Language, Medicine Oral History
Willard Manderfeld They had to teach us English first Growing Up Growing Up, Settler Life, Language, German German, Language Oral History
Melvin Littlecrow No, not in school, we weren’t taught history or culture. Growing Up Growing Up Dakota Oral History, Education Oral History
Beverly Wakeman One time I asked him why he didn’t teach us to speak the language. Growing Up Growing Up Dakota Dakota Language, WWII, Christianity Oral History
Ed LaBelle The child believed, "who died?" Growing Up Growing Up Dakota, Dakota Culture and Values, Dakota Language, Boarding School, Christianity, Jobs Language, School, Spirituality, Christianity Oral History
Myron Taylor I still remember some of them Growing Up Growing Up Dakota Education, Family, Medicine, Military, Language, Christianity Oral History
William Beane I found the birch trees and I knew that was home Growing Up Growing Up Dakota, Family in 1862, Language, Perspectives on 1862, Ways of Commemorating Family, Language, Commemoration, Traders, Military, Fort Snelling Oral History

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