Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post Oral History Project: Interview with Maude Kegg

Titles: Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post Oral History Project: Interview with Maude Kegg (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Maude Kegg was born in the Bay Lakes area in 1904. At the time of the interview she was living on the Mille Lacs Reservation and working Maude at the Mille Lacs Indian museum as a craftsperson. She received a National Endowment for the Arts award in 1990 for her work. Maude was a friend of Jeannette Ayer in the 1930s and visited the trading post on several occasions at that time. She wrote three books on the Ojibwe people, "When I was a Little Girl" (1976), "At the End of the Trail" (1978) and "What My Grandmother Told Me" (1983), and was the interview subject of a more recent book, "Portage Lake: Memories of an Oiibwe Childhood," edited and transcribed by John D. Nichols. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: General information on Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post, including Maude

Dates

• 11/07/1991 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewer: Godfrey, Anthony
• interviewee: Kegg, Maude

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 35
• Accession Number: AV1993.198.3

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post Oral History Project' <OH 35>

Quantity: 20 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: text

Subjects

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