And Tongue River Canyon, Wyoming   I am going to present the entire treaty committee meeting because it offers an important reflection of...

5-7-77   Father Retzel returned from Spokane this morning in time to say mass at the chapel at the mission entrance. Father will say mass...

Almost every family in Hays has a pet or pets. Every family has a dog. Most of the dogs run loose. Only a couple are ever chained, ours...

When Susie returned to Montana after being with her mother, she took a bus from Billings to the DY Junction. 5-2-77   Socksy got a red...

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...

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...