Lawrence Tobacco interview
dc.contributor.author | Tobacco, Lawrence | |
dc.contributor.author | Welsh, Christine | |
dc.contributor.author | Snowsill, Tony | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-04-22T16:40:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-04-22T16:40:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1983-06-20 | |
dc.description | 38 p. transcript of an interview with Lawrence Tobacco conducted by Christine Welsh and Tony Snowsill on June 20, 1983. Tape number IH-124/IH-125a transcript disc 9. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Lawrence Tobacco, born 1919, on the Poor Man Reserve, Saskatchewan He attended a residential school and is now involved in traditional education and counseling. He talks about farming and raising cattle on the Poor Man Reserve; shares a story of a trip he took to Winnipeg to sell cattle for a number of reserves in the File Hills area, and how Indian Affairs officials tried to bribe him with part of the proceeds of the sale; shares stories of defiance toward Dept. of Indian Affairs paternalism such as: butchering a cow without a permit; buying a tractor and establishing outside credit without a permit. He also shares his experiences in the Catholic residential school on the Muskowekan Reserve, 1926-1935. | en_US |
dc.description.authorstatus | Other | en_US |
dc.description.peerreview | no | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10294/2307 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Canadian Plains Research Centre | en_US |
dc.subject | Agriculture -- Cattle-raising | en_US |
dc.subject | Agriculture -- Farming instructors | en_US |
dc.subject | Agriculture -- Farming | en_US |
dc.subject | Agriculture -- Gardening | en_US |
dc.subject | Chiefs and chieftainship -- Election of | en_US |
dc.subject | Children -- Raising of | en_US |
dc.subject | Education -- Attitudes toward | en_US |
dc.subject | Education -- And child labor | en_US |
dc.subject | Education -- And cultural suppression | en_US |
dc.subject | Education -- Day schools | en_US |
dc.subject | Education -- Residential schools | en_US |
dc.subject | Education -- Traditional | en_US |
dc.subject | Indian Affairs, Department of -- Attitudes toward | en_US |
dc.subject | Indian Affairs, Department of -- Indian agents | en_US |
dc.subject | Indian Affairs, Department of -- Paternalism | en_US |
dc.subject | Indian Affairs, Department of -- Permit system | en_US |
dc.subject | Land -- Sale | en_US |
dc.subject | Medicine and curing practices -- Faith | en_US |
dc.subject | Non-Indians -- Duplicity of | en_US |
dc.subject | Social organization -- Decision-making | en_US |
dc.subject | Trade -- With non-Indians | en_US |
dc.subject | Values | en_US |
dc.subject | Values -- Honesty | en_US |
dc.subject | Values -- Respect | en_US |
dc.subject | Work -- Attitudes toward | en_US |
dc.subject | Work -- Self-sufficiency | en_US |
dc.title | Lawrence Tobacco interview | en_US |
dc.type | Other | en_US |