Interview with Don Talayesva
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1997.19.5
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Freedman, Daniel G.
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content: Daniel G. Freedman films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (color sound; 800 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1980
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Footage of an interview with Don Talayesva, a Hopi Indian born in the pueblo of Old Oraibi in 1890 who, at the age of 10 began attending the reservation school and then the Sherman School for Indians in Riverside, California where he received instruction in English and the white way of life. He returned to the Hopi reservation and in 1938 started working with Yale University anthropologist, Leo Simmons, who helped him write his autobiography, "Sun Chief, the autobiography of a Hopi Indian." Content of this interview is currently unknown.