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

May his memory be a blessing   The following information covers the general time period during which I was doing my fieldwork research...

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...

During the two years that Susie and I worked at the mission, Beatrice Stiffarm and Mary Jones were the cooks in the school. Jim Stiffarm...

Anthropologically speaking, May was absolutely nuts and served as an accurate reflection of what our lives were to be for the next year...

In early April, Ray, Irma, Gordon and Edith were up at the trailer visiting with Susie and me. Irma said that Ray was reading a book and...

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...