9-10-77 Hays Senior Citizens Center Susie and I went to the hall in the morning for the quarterly tribal council meeting. There were about 25 people in the hall. Everyone was sitting around the tables drinking coffee and visiting. Most of the people were from the Agency. Mostly tribal employees. Susie visited with Dora Helgeson, and I visited with Davey Hawley for about an hour. We got there at 10:30. At 11:45, Jack Plumage got up to talk. Jack said that there wouldn’t be a

May their memories be a blessing 8-2-77 trailer Ray came over to the trailer at around 5:00. He had a cup of coffee with us. He asked me if he could borrow the choker he gave me. I gave it to him. Then he asked me if I had film in my camera and I told him I did. He said that he wanted me to take some pictures for him. He and Cyndee are going to a pow wow this weekend at the Blackfeet Reservation. Both of them are going to be dancing and he wanted me to take pictures of th

Agency Tribal Offices August 22 On Friday, August 19 I called Jack Plumage and made an appointment with him for Monday morning at 11:00. I told him that I wanted to talk to him about the research I was doing on the reservation. Susie and I went to Jack Plumage’s office for a formal interview session in the afternoon after lunch. We sat around a large table in his room, and the atmosphere was very informal. The interview lasted from 2-5. Jack’s secretary came in a few time

8-1-77 Harlem Susie went to see Rocky at the Harlem Theatre with Gordon and Edith. There were a lot of people from Hays there. People cheered during the boxing scenes. Edith said that people around here are really into boxing. Glen and Dory boxed for a while. Edith said that she was a nervous wreck when they fought. Harlem 8-1-77 Jim and Beatrice’s Beatrice said that when old man Al First Sound came around to choose the dancers he sure scared some of the young kids. He

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