Heritage Colorado

Interview covers the Circle Dance; and pinenut prayer.

Dscussion of Jack Wilson, also known as Wovoka; Indian doctors; the Vidovich family. Recorded at Schurz, Nevada.

Oral history interview with Andy Vidovich. Discusses family history; born in Tule Canyon, attended Stewart Indian School, and worked in copper mine in Mason, Nevada; race relations between Indians and white townspeople. Discusses law and order in the West. Two women are present during the interview, one identified only as Alice and the other unidentified.

Vidovich discusses the Stewart Indian School in Carson City, Nevada; Mason Valley; Jack Wilson, also known as Wovoka; Thompson; Alida Bowler; and Schurz, Nevada.

Birdie Dave sings the Ghost Dance song, the Hand Game song, and the Circle Dance.

The women talk about tattooing; water babies; pinenutting; steam baths; and ants.

Topics cover a ceremonial sing; a medicine man wrapped and tied in a blanket; Raymond Harris; and the doctor rock between Nixon and Fallon, Nevada.

First part of recording is an informal discussion over lunch with a woman identified as Essie Simon Allen. Second part of the recording is the summary of the circumstances of the interview by the interviewer; discussed the death of her father John Simon and a friend George Johnny [spelling unknown], family history, and Indian medicine.

Discusses coyote paint; and the O'Neil genealogy.