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video and audiotape index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
This is an index of the hardcopy transcripts, not the 0n-line chapters.
Index numbers refer only to where a discussion starts, or resumes.
| tape number: | |
| babies | 61-16, 65-25, 69-02 |
| background | 07-11 |
| bacon grease | 64-22 |
| "bad" | 15-35, 15-36 |
| bag | 79-35, see also "medicine bag" |
| Bagley, MN | 66-21 |
| balance | 02-02, 05-05, 05-06, 12-31, 14-130 |
| ball | 81-27, see also "games"` |
| Ball Club, MN | 08-63, 08-77 (council), 08-80, 08-94, 13-72, 13-92, 13-95, 45-08, 52-14, 52-45, 53-02, 61-24, 63-03, 66-16, 66-20, 66-33, 77-09, 78-11, 78-16, 78-29, 81-30 |
| Ball Club Lake | 08-92, 81-22 |
| Ball Club River | 66-27 |
| ball team | 07-22 (Cass Lake, MN), 07-23, see also "team" |
| balsam | 14-131, 61-01, 63-20, 63-22, 63-23, 63-35, 70-24 |
| Balsam (sp?) [Indian agent] | 11-03 |
| bands | 04-05 (Mississippi; general discussion), 06-18 (population), 06-19 (and cars; population increase), 08-12 (moccasin game), 08-71 (White Oak and Mississippi; 1920s councils and resolutions), 08-79 (band = en-dah-nah-kiid = "that's where he works"),, 10-63 (and working together; Old Council -- pre-New-Deal; and government), 15-43 (and food), 31-34 (family groups getting together), 41-03 (?), 81-06 (linguistics, cf., 08-79) , see also "group," "bunches," "divisions," "residence / residential groups" |
| bank | 14-80, 78-03, 78-13 |
| baptism | 10-44 (mother's willing), 12-11, 12-12, 52-16, 66-15 (leg stroke >> dream), 66-16, 69-03, |
| bark | 01-11 (in April), 01-12 (baskets; bird houses); 29-09 (roofing), 31-01, *31-03 (wigiwams; preparing bark) , 35-30 (spots in the river picked over), 42-07 (Hiawatha / Winibozho), 55-02 (scrolls), 57-21 (cutting ash diamond shape), 63-07 (ash; birch), 63-14, 68-23, see also individual trees |
| Barnes, Joe | 05-12, 05-36, 09-26, 09-59, 10-18, 41-24, 63-04, 66-20, 71-14 |
| baskets | 13-73 (maple sugar storage), 29-06 (deer-hoof), 31-11 (sap baskets), 57-16 (deer-hoof), 58-07 (winnowing), 63-35 (ling; large syrup; sap;mah-kak), 63-39 (ling; small naa-du-bin; cf . 31-11) , 64-04 (mah-kak for sugar) , 80-26 (young people buy baskets, old people make them; resthome baskets) |
| bass | 66-11 |
| basswood | 63-23, 80-27 |
| Battle Point | 10-38 |
| Bay-bu-ka-way | 52-41 |
| beads / beadwork | 35-04 (to sell; selling to lumberjacks), 51-04 (beads from megis), 52-12 (?), 61-17 (and velvet in store; 1st = 1918; Canadian), 66-13 (ling; # on items sold), 79-10 |
| bear / bear claws | 01-03 (could see in right seasons; and porcupine), 09-50 (and birchbark picking; and Steve Jackson; and bear getting deer), 09-52 (bear getting deer, and hunting with Michaud; eating meat), 09-54 (killing bear), 09-58 (stepping on cubs, and eating), 10-37 (raising bear story), 25-28 (bear claw; and philosophy; raising bear story; eating meat), 27-29 (eating; shooting bear), 57-06 (bear deadfall), 61-14 (ling), 61-26 (mating; in camping spot) |
| Beaulieu, Paul | 49-11 |
| beaver | 08-19, 68-19, 80-05 |
| Bebeau, Jim | |
| bedding | 63-19 |
| bedwetting (cure of) | 37-11 |
| beer | 49-10 |
| bees | 10-40, 10-68, 35-13, 66-30 |
| beliefs | 08-22, 13-140, 13-126, 27-54, 37-02, 74-04, 82-06, see also "values," and "views" |
| Bellengers | 79-25 |
| Bemus | 72-23 |
| Bena, MN | 08-81 (council), 09-01 (Bena school = 1st, ca. 1909, 1906) , 09-31 (and farm at Bena), 10-67 (council and interpreting letter re drinking representative) , 11-01 (council), 13-72 (as early camping grounds), 13-114 (gong to Bena Indian school), 41-21 (CC camp), 49-03 (Fred Crow = grandfather; store; mother), 57-01 (logging/gardening; selling place >> social security), 57-28 (Tom selling mother firewood; Bena place ? going to heck), *60-02 (name ceremony), 61-17 (Flemming's general store, ca. 1925), 62-27 (and wife leaving, 1917; dance incident and Ed Rogers, 1919), 62-32 (dance hall), *63-02 (paper shack -- Jack Nason), *66-16 (man; sickly -- baptism), 66-19 (Bena church), 66-24 (Flemming's store), 70-08 (mother >> Bena; distance oved = 10-11 mi.), *70-13 (s....), 70-14 (wigiwam; Jack Nason) , 72-21 (rations), 72-23 (Flemming's store; Bemis [?] = agriculture agent), 78-28 (Flemming's store), 78-40 (CC camp) |
| berries | 01-11 (blueberries = sure of the season), 01-12 (energy for blueberry picking for sugar), 29-12 (maple sugar >> blueberries), 31-16 (scouting for blueberries; drying blueberries; etc.), 35-02, 63-23 (and dye), 67-21 (selling), see also individual types of berries |
| best years | 51-13, 51-51 |
| betterment | 05-03, 13-15, 14-04, 22-30 (et passim), 22-40, 55-10, see also "development," and "community development" |
| BIA | see "Bureau of Indian Affairs" |
| Bible | 66-17 ff. |
| birch bark | 01-12, 55-02 (scrolls), 57-21, 63-07, 63-08, see also "bark" |
| birch trees | 14-91, 14-129, 70-20 |
| birds | 45-02, 45-14, 60-23 |
| birth | 27-39, 36-12, 47-17, 47-18, 61-32, 70-22, 70-23, 78-44 |
| blackberries | 14-72, 72-26 |
| black face | 44-17 |
| blackgowns | 12-15 |
| black horses | 44-12 |
| "black man" | 75-23, see also "shadow man" |
| black (wild) rice | 64-19 |
| Blacks | 08-67, 27-65, 49-09 |
| "blanket shoes" | 73-17 |
| blood | 06-31 (white), 14-43, 37-09, 72-07 |
| bloodletting | 12-55 (headache, high blood pressure, snowblind >> Paul Buffalo's bloodletting), 14-57 (sucking doctor), 45-15 (and women), 59-04 (and sweatbath; Mati Kaups interview; scar), 69-25, 72-10 (stopped doing it), 77-08 (ling and general description) |
| bloodroots | 47-24 |
| blowing | 68-13 |
| blueberries | 09-07 (looking for blueberries on river; selling, at Dumas' store or Deer River; seeing deer along the river when it was hotter, during blueberry time), 31-16 (scouting for blueberries; drying; etc.), 38-02 (drying blueberries; didn't have jars), 62-15 (ling; swamp berries; cranberry; blueberry), 64-05 (100 quarts sauce; 300 quarts picked), see also "berries" |
| boarding schools | 35-18, 56-24, see also "schools" and "education" |
| boat | 05-13, 05-19, 27-32 (river), 57-25, 76-01, 78-45, 79-22 |
| bobcat | 62-33 |
| Boblink, John | 10-74 |
| body | 01-10, 13-02, 13-137, see also other entries |
| body movements | 08-05 |
| boiling over | 09-45 |
| Bois Forte | see "Nett Lake" |
| "bone doctor" | 77-01, 79-29, see also "medicine doctors" |
| bones | 14-57, 46-02, 52-30 |
| bood / "book" | 08-27, 08-32, 14-36, 38-01, 43-07, 47-13, 68-16, 80-17 |
| bootlegging | 62-88 |
| borrowing | 27-16 |
| bounty | 30- |
| Bovey, MN | 77-11 |
| bow and arrow | 09-09 (partridge hunting; descripton), 29-06, 46-16 (hunting; description), 57-13 (general), 57-15 (shooting distance) |
| bowl | 64-02 |
| Bowstring | 79-04, 80-37 |
| Bowstring, Tom | 79-19 |
| Boyd, George | 47-35 |
| boyhood days | 10-65, see also other listings |
| Boy River, MN | 57-35, 78-33, 79-20, 79-25 |
| Bradley, Tom | 45-39, 74-27, 77-09 |
| bragging | 09-23, 13-48 |
| brain | 01-06, 03-06 (food), 65-20, 74-34 |
| brave | 35-15, see also "scouts" |
| bread | 05-18, 29-12, 31-17, 43-13, 43-16, 46-01, 46-02, 61-21, 73-28, see also "frybread," and "sourdough bread" |
| breastfeeding | 65-25, see also "nursing" |
| "breed" | 81-06, see also "mixedbloods" |
| brothers | see "family," "relatives," and names of brothers |
| brown-ees | 47-06, 62-06, 68-22, see also "dwarfs," and "little people" |
| buckskin | 63-27, 63-32, 79-01, 79-36 |
| Budreau | 01-07, 08-45 |
| Buffalo, Dave | see "Staples, Dave" |
| buffalofish | 66-10 |
| Buffalo, Henry | 21-29, 50-25, 54-, 60-06, 60-15 |
| Buffalo, Mrs. Henry | 55-23 |
| Buffalo, Jim | 58-34, 67-05, 67-06, 70-16 |
| Buffalo, Katie | 67-08 |
| Buffalo, Mary | 37-03 |
| Buffalo, "Old Lady" | 60-15 |
| Buffalo, "Tiny" | 61-13, see also sons |
| Buffalos | 50-23, 52-28 |
| bull | 78-15 |
| bullheads | 64-23, 66-09, 80-70, see also "fish / fishing" |
| "bunch" / bunches | 10-63 (working together), *13-63 (basic groups), *13-68 (basic groups), 13-71, 31-34, 35-25, 64-32 (ling "division"; chief = "business man of the group"), 67-10 (bunch), 67-37 (definition of bunch; buying canoes; grand mother's time in Duluth, how to portage, Canadian beads), 68-31 (; def; splitting up), 69-01 (ling), 80-13 (ling), see also "bands," "divisions," "factions," "groups," "group residence / residential groups" |
| Bungo | 49-09 |
| Bureau of Indian Affairs | 04-06, 08-35, 08-73, 08-78, 43-36, 78-36 |
| burials | 14-25, 51-46 (scaffold burial), 52-17, 60-11, 67-39, see also "wakes," "funerals," "death / dead / dying," and "mourning" |
| burns | 71-01 |
| businesses | 53-23 |
| butterflies | 58-26 |
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