Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Minnesota Native American Interviews: Interview with Ruth Ann Strong

Titles: Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Minnesota Native American Interviews: Interview with Ruth Ann Strong (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Ruth Ann Boshey Strong was born in 1925 in Burntside Lake, Minnesota. Her early schooling was done in Ely, Minnesota and Pipestone, Minnesota. She eventually moved to Nett Lake where she met her husband. She worked for Burntside Lodge and raised a family. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Childhood memories: going swimming, gathering food, ricing; taking care of her grandmother; school experiences in Ely and Pipestone; moving to Nett Lake and meeting her husband; her husband's military service in World War II; going to powwows; her strained relationship with her husband; raising her children; adopting her nephew and his son; growing up during the Great Depression; the Works Progress Administration [WPA] and the Civilian Conservation Corps [CCC]; food shortages; modernization of the reservation.

Dates

• 06/28/2006 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Strong, Ruth Ann Boshey
• interviewer: White, Karissa
• interviewer: Horrigan, Brian

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 118
• Accession Number: AV2008.31.10

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 39 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 123

Subjects

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