Wake and Funeral for Mary Gone Talks Different   3-1-77   The wake for Mary was held at Caroline and Bobby’s at the Agency.   Ray, Irma,...

Gordon and Edith Lodge   2-1-77     I was at Gordon’s. They (Community Council) were talking about a cement dam on Big Fork. With this...

St. Paul’s Mission   2-1-77   I had lunch with Sister Giswalda. She told me that she and Sister Claire went to the University of Montana...

Kathleen and Laura moved to Lodge Pole in January. Soon after, Susie and I moved into the green trailer at the mission. It sure made life...

December 31 – January 1 Lodge Pole New Year’s Eve   There was a New Year’s Eve pow wow at the Lodge Pole Community Hall. The dance was...

There are a lot of Christmas parties being planned all around the reservation. All the different agencies in the tribal government and in...

Dear Senators Moreno and Husted:   We are generally admonished not to compare every government wrongdoing to Nazi’s and Hitler. As a Jew,...

Anthropology   I was speaking to an older woman about previous anthropological research on the Gros Ventre. She said,   You should be...

Family   Complicated. Families are really complicated.   I’m going to begin with this observation. The only people who really know and...

Paul Doney died between Friday night and Saturday.  He was the brother of Chinky and Bates.  Chinky came up to the mission Saturday...

We had such remarkable friendships while we lived in Hays and those relationships lasted after we left the reservation. Edith once made a...

During the time I was doing my work, there were few other institutions on the reservation that reflected the conflicting interests that...

Toward A Better World (Bits of Inspiration) by Pipe Woman  (Sister Giswalda)   Mission High School Hays, Montana 1971   Sister Giswalda...

Susie had been experiencing severe headaches that wouldn’t resolve. She went back to Columbus toward the middle of October to have some...

There was a pow wow at the Agency gym on the weekend of October 1st and 2nd. I drove up to the Agency with Ray, Irma and Lyle. It was...

During the two years we lived in Hays, I had many serious conversations with Ray. None of them was more important than the conversation...

We were adopted by the Gone family very early on. As I noted previously, Ray and Irma took us into their family and protected and cared...

My dear friend, Mike, watched Susie and I writing fieldnotes almost every day he came to our trailer … and that was every day. He’s the...

We arrived at the mission in Hays on August 9, 1976, in the early afternoon. I was astonished to discover that my first fieldnotes from...

The Gros Ventre or A’aniii are an Algonquian-speaking people. There are quite a few tribes that speak languages belonging to this family....