Oral history interviews of the Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Native American interviews. 2006.

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Oral history interviews of the Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Native American interviews. 2006.

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This project chronicles the lives of Minnesota Native Americans who lived during World War II and are part of "Minnesota's Greatest Generation." Some of the subjects discussed include growing up on a reservation; attending government run boarding schools; powwows; the Civilian Conservation Corps [CCC]; the Works Progress Administration [WPA]; enlisting in the armed forces; past and present life at the Red Lake Indian Reservation; the Great Depression; combat experiences during World War II; life after the war; the dropping of the atomic bombs; American Indian cultural identity and traditions; the American Indian Movement; and views on the Cold War and Iraq War.

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Minnesota Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 6648290

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Clark, James, 1918-

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Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.). Indian Division.

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Clark, Vernon D., interviewee.

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Wipson, James L., interviewee.

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Williams, Maude M., interviewee.

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White, Karissa E., interviewer.

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Minnesota Works Progress Administration

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The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was established in July, 1935, as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a New Deal agency responsible for operating a wide variety of "socially useful" work-relief programs. The WPA was renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1939 and was transferred, along with several other relief agencies, to the newly created Federal Works Agency. After the United States entered World War II, the FWP was renamed the Writers' Unit of the WPA's War...

Strong, Ruth Ann, interviewee.

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Wabasha, Vernell, interviewee.

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American Indian Movement

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The American Indian Movement (AIM) is an American Indian advocacy group in the United States, founded in July 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota....

Barrett, Rachel, interviewee.

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Horrigan, Brian, interviewer.

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Wabasha, Ernest, interviewee.

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McKenzie, Roberta, interviewee.

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Amyotte, William N., interviewee.

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Petry, Ben, interviewer.

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Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project.

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For biographical information see individual description sheets in the oral history notebooks. Thousands of Minnesotans lived through the era of World War II. Many served their country through direct participation in the armed forces. Others contributed to the nation's war effort through work in war-related industries. And still others remember the reality of life during wartime, from the rationing of everything from sugar to gasoline, to the scarcity of items like home a...

Tibbetts, B. L. (Burnham Lyle), Sr., interviewee.

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Pindegayosh, Michael, interviewee.

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Light, William F., interviewee.

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Drouillard, James W., Sr., interviewee.

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Olson, Ernest S., interviewee.

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Good, Bert, O., interviewee.

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