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May 1977: The Old Times and Memorial Day Pow Wow
5-2-77 Â I went to visit Irma and Ray. Irma, Ruth and Shannon and I sat around the kitchen table and talked. Irma said that she remembered really well when TB was a big problem here. It's not as big a problem as it used to be. We used to take a tablespoon of cod liver oil every day. It was supposed to prevent TB. At first I hated it but my mother would make us take it. After a while I actually didn't mind the taste. It didn't taste so bad. I got used to it. And it was suppose

Sandy Siegel
Oct 2535 min read
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May 1977: Animals and Food
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...

Sandy Siegel
Sep 2028 min read
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August 1976: Beginnings
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...

Sandy Siegel
Sep 15, 202456 min read
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A Brief History of the Gros Ventre and Federal Indian Policy
The Gros Ventre or A’aniii are an Algonquian-speaking people. There are quite a few tribes that speak languages belonging to this family....

Sandy Siegel
Sep 7, 202435 min read
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