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Contains 41 Results:
Alan Rollie, 7/31/1980
File — Box: 1, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents
Summary of notes: Mr. Rollie talks about how the Indian trading post traders helped the Navajos with many needs in their lives, including burying their dead. He also recalls his days working as a community organizer for the Democratic party in the 1930s against the Republican machine in Gallup. He also comments about later decades and issues in New Mexico politics, the mining companys controlling the miners’ votes and the move to have a voter literacy test, which Hispanics opposed in New...
Dates:
7/31/1980
Leone Rollie, 3/16/1989
File — Box: 1, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents
Summary of ntoes: Mrs. Rollie tells about her time working as a stand-in for motion pictures filmed in Gallup, including where they were shot, her roles, conditions of the time, the participation of the Navajos in the film, the movie stars she knew, the El Rancho Hotel, etc. - including the movie “New Mexico” shot there in 1951
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Dates:
3/16/1989
Herb Stacher, 9/7/1982
File — Box: 1, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents
Summary of notes: Mr. Stacher tells about his ancestors coming from Holland to Pennsylvania. His father and family moved from Ohio to Oklahoma in an immigrant railroad car, including animals and children. Herb relates stories about his father’s and mother’s hard life and work at the Indian Agency in Oklahoma, where they knew Jim Thorpe, the Indian athlete, and at the Ute Agency in Navajo Springs. Later Herb recalls his own life as a painter for a gallery in Gallup, serving in the Navy in World...
Dates:
9/7/1982
Clara Lee Tanner, 1989
File — Box: 1, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents
Notes: Professor Tanner is speaking clearly. She is from the University of Arizona, and was a judge at the Gallup Indian Intertribal Ceremonial craft show. She is giving a lecture and discusses changes in basket designs over the years and new trends in modern times. Evidently, she and Sally are looking at a display of baskets brought to the Gallup Indian Ceremonial and discussing different ones - as to daily or ceremonial use, weaving and sewing techniques, materials, grasses, yucca, devils...
Dates:
1989
Tanner - Continuation, 1989
File — Box: 1, Folder: 29.1
Scope and Contents
Professor Tanner’s talk - continuation, a short tape, poorer sound quality, but can still hear her.
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Dates:
1989
Sally Noe, 12/1/1989
File — Box: 1, Folder: 29.2
Scope and Contents
Notes: Sally Noe reading her resignation letter to the board of directors - she had been serving as a volunteer, idealistic, enthusiastic - on the Gallup Indian Intertribal Ceremonial board or art committee judging Indian crafts - expresses her unhappiness with the administration - a dynasty, antiquated, kept status quo, meager cooperation, no new ideas accepted, etc.
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Dates:
12/1/1989
Ceremonial Art Committee, 1989
File — Box: 1, Folder: 30.1
Scope and Contents
Apparently this is a meeting of the Gallup Intertribal Ceremonial committee or board of art judges of the Indian arts, crafts entered in the contests - apparently all Anglo Americans in this group. Continuation of discussion of baskets with Professor Tanner, but of poorer sound quality, but can still hear her. Several men have joined the discussion - members of the art judges group apparently. They are also taking about clay water jars. Discussion of judging the artist entries, categories,...
Dates:
1989
Tanner, Noe and Art Committee, 1989
File — Box: 1, Folder: 30.2
Scope and Contents
Notes: Continuation of the discussion about judging Indian art entries, displays at the Gallup Indian Intertribal Ceremonial, display cases, arrangements, etc.
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Dates:
1989
Dena Vanderwagen, undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 31
Scope and Contents
Summary of notes: Mrs. Vanderwagen recalls her life with her missionary father at Rehoboth and her husband at the Zuni trading post. She and her husband also ran a restaurant at Zuni and she tells about the tourists and anthropologists who came out, and the Zunis she knew. She noted the scholars and museum people asked the Zunis for permission to take photos and write about their pueblo. Among other interesting accounts, she describes her ties to the Indian traders - Cotton, DuBois and Hubbell,...
Dates:
undated
Bill Young, 8/12/ ?
File — Box: 1, Folder: 32
Scope and Contents
Summary of notes: Young worked at trading posts on the Western side of the Navajo reservation and managed the Hubbell - Ganado trading post for the National Park Service. He talks about preserving the Hubbell post and its rugs, the changes and adaptations in Navajo rugs, leaving off the borders, helping to improve the weavers’ quality, some of the highest prices for rugs, etc. He tells about meeting Stewart Udall and John F. Kennedy during the 1960 campaign.
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Dates:
8/12/ ?
Joe Yurcie, 6/16/?
File — Box: 1, Folder: 33
Scope and Contents
Summary of notes: Joe tells about his family from Yugoslavia and Slav families he knew in Gallup. Yugoslavian men coming over to America paid their own way. A family would fund a girl’s way, and then when she married her husband would have to pay them back for the cost of the trip. His father worked as a carpenter in the mines and told him a story of how insensitive a company official was who cared more about a mule dying than a man. Joe recalls his school days and working at the Gallup...
Dates:
6/16/?
Joanne Vogt Davis, Anita Davis et al, 5/9/1990
File — Box: 1, Folder: 34
Scope and Contents
Summary of notes: Joanne tells about her father, who came to New Mexico for his health and became a sheep rancher at Ramah and built his own house there. He joined in land and sheep ventures with several other businessmen on lands in the Navajo reservation checkerboard area, helped introduce the Rambouillet breed to the area and also worked in other interesting promotional jobs. She recalls letters and gifts from her father, the Depression, the sheep lost during the 1931 snow storm and her...
Dates:
5/9/1990
Joe Plese, 8/18/?
File — Box: 1, Folder: 35
Scope and Contents
Volume set too low, unable to hear him. No notes.
Dates:
8/18/?
Guido Zacca, 8/5/1980
File — Box: 1, Folder: 36
Scope and Contents
Summary of ntoes: Zacca came to the United States as an immigrant from Italy, served in World War I, settled in Gallup, became a boxer and later a boxing promoter and a pool hall owner. Later he got homestead land and developed it into housing districts near Gallup. He also recalls his days in politics fighting the Gallup Republican machine and becoming a New Mexico State senator (1948) and President Pro Tem of the Senate. He explains how streets in his Gallup lands were named “We will win” and...
Dates:
8/5/1980
Notes from songs, samples of spindle holes and recording speed card, 2009-2011
File — Box: 1, Folder: 37
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
The Sally Noe collection provides a fascinating view of history and life in Gallup and the surrounding area over the last century. The collection is divided into two series: Gallup area interviews and Native American music. The quality of the oral history recordings is generally good. Some recordings with volume and background noise issues have been reengineered to enhance their quality. In these cases, both the original and reengineered CDs have been retained in the collection (reengineered...
Dates:
2009-2011
Photos (2) - Sally Noe, circa 1990s
File — Box: 1, Folder: 38
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
The Sally Noe collection provides a fascinating view of history and life in Gallup and the surrounding area over the last century. The collection is divided into two series: Gallup area interviews and Native American music. The quality of the oral history recordings is generally good. Some recordings with volume and background noise issues have been reengineered to enhance their quality. In these cases, both the original and reengineered CDs have been retained in the collection (reengineered...
Dates:
circa 1990s