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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Charles Cambridge for Colorado Reflections, 1985, 2006 January 16
Item
Identifier: couda-cambridge
Abstract
Charles Cambridge, a Navajo Indian, gives a history of Indian tribes in North America, describing the cultural and racial differences of each tribe, and touches on the tactics of warfare. This tape aired on Denver radio station KOA ai part of the "Colorado Reflections" radio program on April 18, 1985
Dates:
1985; Digitization: 2006 January 16
Oral history of Isaac Owen Rogers, 1981, 2006 March
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Identifier: MSM97-181
Abstract
Born in Mesa in 1903, Rogers tells of how his family was sent by Brigham Young to colonize Arizona. His father, Isaac Higby Rogers, worked as a blacksmith and invented a new device to shoe mules. He recalls details of farming with no machinery and home life with no electricity or running water. They used wet burlap to keep milk, eggs and butter cool. Rogers' grandfather was president of the Indian mission of the Mormon church, and Rogers gives a lot of detail about the daily life of Native...
Dates:
1981; Digitization: 2006 March
Oral history of Lelah Schornick, 1976 May 5, 2006 March
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Identifier: MSM97-184
Abstract
Schornick tells of her family's move to Mesa from Cherryville, Kansas, in 1909, to help her father's bronchiectasis. She recalls crops grown in those days: almonds, peaches, cantaloupe, citrus, dates. There were many ostrich farms and they ate ostrich eggs. She also talks about keeping cool by sleeping outside and wrapping water jars in wet burlap. Schornick married her husband Eugene (Gene), in 1917, and they had two children. Gene fought in World War II and retired from a career at Salt...
Dates:
1976 May 5; Digitization: 2006 March
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- Agriculture -- Mesa (Ariz.) -- History 1
- Art collections 1
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Arizona 1
- History 1
- Indian pottery -- Collectors and collecting 1
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- Indigenous peoples of North America -- Colorado Plateau 1
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