Doris Duke Indian Oral History Collection

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Doris Duke Indian Oral History Collection

1967-1972

https://archives.libraries.ou.edu/repositories/2/resources/8500

Oral history collection. Typescripts of interviews conducted with hundreds of American Indians in Oklahoma regarding the histories and cultures of their respective tribes. Included are accounts of Indian ceremonies, customs, social conditions, philosophies, and standards of living. Members of every tribe resident in Oklahoma were interviewed.

695 Cassettes (695 cassettes)

eng, Latn

University of Oklahoma. Western History Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 11677122

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Dean, Nora Thompson, 1907-1984

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Nora Thompson Dean (July 3, 1907 – November 29, 1984) was a member of the Delaware Tribe of Indians. As a Lenape traditionalist and one of the last fluent speakers of the southern Unami dialect of the Lenape language, she was an influential mentor to younger tribal members and is widely cited in scholarship on Lenape culture. Born in Oklahoma, she received her education in Oklahoma's public schools. She graduated from Midway School in 1921, as salutatorian, and from Dewey High School in Dewey, O...