Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Minnesota Native American Interviews: Interview with Rachel Barrett

Titles: Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Minnesota Native American Interviews: Interview with Rachel Barrett (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Rachel Barrett was born in 1922 in Red Lake, Minnesota. She attended government school, Flandreau High School, and Red Lake High School. After high school she worked in a fishery, eventually being selected to teach homemaking, gardening, and canning through the University of Minnesota. She was married after high school and raised a family. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Being raised by her grandmother; canning, hunting, and gardening as a child; finishing high school in Red Lake after attending government school and Flandreau; entertainment: marbles, games, powwows, tribal competitions; being exposed to the Civilian Conservation Corps and Works Progress Administration; working at a fishery: filleting, smoking, selling; working for the University of Minnesota; teaching homemaking, gardening, and canning; getting married and raising her children.

Dates

• 07/26/2006 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Barrett, Rachel
• interviewer: White, Karissa

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 118
• Accession Number: AV2008.31.2

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: 3 hours sound cassettes 44 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 127

Subjects

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