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Terminated Mixed-Blood Ute — Oral Histories | Wilson Johnson (Full Blood) | July 27, 1967

Terminated Mixed-Blood Ute — Oral Histories | Wilson Johnson (Full Blood), July 27, 1967

Wilson Johnson (Northern Ute), July 27, 1967

Item — Reel 55

Topics include the death of his father, Native American agents, education, views of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, reservations, discrimination, religion, attitudes about horses, wives and children, migration, integration, employment, land development, farming, alcohol, the Sun Dance, differences between the Ute and Sioux, and an introduction to Mrs. Johnson.
Total running time: 1 hour 23 minutes. Interviewed and recorded by Floyd A. O'Neil in Fort Duchesne, Utah.

Doris Duke American Indian Oral History Project audio recordings (A0001). J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections.

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Oral Histories | Wilson Johnson, July 27, 1967








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