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In this intimate volume the long-lost voices of Wisconsin Oneida men and women speak of all aspects of life: growing up, work and economic struggles, family relations, belief and religious practice, boarding-school life, love, sex, sports, and politics. These voices are drawn from a collection of handwritten accounts recently rediscovered after more than fifty years, the result of a WPA Federal Writers' Project undertaking called the Oneida Ethnological Study (1940-42) in which a dozen Oneida men and women were hired to interview their families and friends and record their own experiences and observations.Selected from more than five hundred biographical narratives, these sixty-five chronicles, told by fifty-eight women and men, present a picture of Oneida Indian life from the 1880s, before the Dawes Allotment Act, through World War I and the Great Depression, to the beginning of World War II. Despite the narrators' struggles against harsh economic conditions, the theft of their land, and neglect, their first-hand histories are rendered with frankness and wit and present a remarkable picture of an era and a people.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Oneida Lives
• Subtitle: Long-Lost Voices of the Wisconsin Oneidas
• Author: Gerald L. Hill, Herbert S. Lewis
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 428
• EAN: 9780803280434
• ISBN: 0803280432
• ID: 04924364
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Weight: 567 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. November 2005

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