Indigenous peoples of North America -- Colorado Plateau
Subject
Subject Source: DU Indigenous and Native Peoples Subject Headings
Scope Note: Use for indigenous peoples of the higher elevation areas of northern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, southeastern Utah and western Colorado when the names of the relevant nations/tribes/bands are unspecified, or there are [provisionally] more than 7 names given. In the context of indigenous materials, use this natural geographic region in preference to settler colonial state boundary lines, unless the work or object(s) are explicitly limited to a present-day jurisdiction.
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Oral history of Lelah Schornick, 1976 May 5, 2006 March
Item
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