Oneida Lives
Subtitle: Long-Lost Voices of the Wisconsin Oneidas
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780803250864
Description: 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.