Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Minnesota Native American Interviews: Interview with William N. Amyotte

Titles: Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Minnesota Native American Interviews: Interview with William N. Amyotte (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: William N. Amyotte was born in 1922 in Colvill, Minnesota. He attended school in Grand Marais and joined the Civilian Conservation Corps [CCC] before graduating. After leaving the CCC, Amyotte enlisted in the Army and completed basic training at Fort Snelling. He was sent to Alaska where he spent the war years. After the war he married, worked for General Mills, and raised a family. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Attending school in Grand Marais; life in a CCC camp; enlisting in the army; basic training at Fort Snelling and working in the mess hall; being stationed in Alaska; injuring his hand and spending time in an army hospital; working at a military defense plant; hearing about the dropping of the atomic bomb; using the GI Bill to attend cooking school; getting married and starting his career at General Mills; becoming involved in flour mill unions on a national level; his platform as union president; overall reflections on his service.

Dates

• 08/11/2006 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Amyotte, William
• interviewer: White, Karissa
• interviewer: Horrigan, Brian

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 118
• Accession Number: AV2008.31.1

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Minnesota Native American Interviews' <OH 118>

Quantity: 2 hours sound cassettes 61 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 120

Subjects

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