7-11-77 trailer   At noon Chuck came to our trailer. We were surprised to see him. This was the first time he had come to see us. He’s a friend of ours from Billings. We met him through Susie’s father. Long story. He is an Oneida Indian. The tribe is from New York, but the government moved them to Wisconsin. He was born on the Pine Ridge Reservation. His father worked for the BIA for years. When he was very young, his family moved to Riverside, California where his father was

Education and Employment   7-4-77 trailer     I asked Gordon how I would go about getting either SPEDY or YCC workers to help me in the potato garden. He said that I would have to ask SPEDY kids, and that I wouldn’t be able to get YCC.   People have been asking me for the YCC kids to help them around their homes, so I had to find out if they could go to do this kind of work. They told me that YCC does things that are permanent, like building structures and doing work that wil

May her memory be a blessing   7-7-77 Gordon and Edith’s   Just after I got to Edith’s, Bobby walked into the house. There was a piece of paper on the kitchen table that listed the pall bearers and honorary pall bearers for Katherine Spotted Bird’s funeral. Pall bearers were Gordon, Ray, Bobby, Mike TD and honorary were Quentin, Henry Fox, Jim Snow and Freddie. Bobby told Edith to give the paper to Gordon. I asked Bobby if she was a relative and he said that she was related t