Elder Interview-Diane Skenandore
A.2008.001.398 PP
Name/Title
Elder Interview-Diane SkenandoreEntry/Object ID
A.2008.001.398Tags
Missing, Needs Accession Sheet, Needs Location, Needs PhotoDescription
Skenandore, Diane Jean Born 08/02/1946 Parents: Royalton and Irene (Skenandore) Cornelius Maternal Grandparents: George and Hilda (Doxtator) Skenandore Paternal Grandparents: Isaac and Maybe (Summers) Cornelius Maternal great – grandparents: Dixon and Jane Skenandore Her grandpa and grandma Skenandore lived in Seymour on Ranch rd. Her grandma Cornelius lived in Chicago. She was a basket maker and a seamstress. She learned how to make baskets from her. She didn’t know her grandpa Cornelius. She grew up in Chicago and went to school there she went as far as the 11th grade. Then she got a job at a Walgreen. She met and married Norbert Skenandore on 8/25/73. They moved back to Oneida, they have 5 children and 5 grandchildren. She went back to school to get her G.E.D. in Oneida. She got involved with the P.T.A. meeting at school and church. Later on they moved back to Chicago she got a job at Venture department store she worked there for 3 years that place went out of business. Her dad couldn’t speak the Oneida language but he could understand it. Her mother didn’t know it at all. Her dad went in the Navy in1942 to 1945. When her dad got out of the service he went to work as an electrician. She didn’t know how far her dad went in school. Her mother went to school at Chicago Corners. She became deaf when a fire cracker went off near her ear. She had to go to a deaf school in Green Bay. Her dad died in 1985. Her mother moved back to Oneida. Her grand Cornelius retired from work in Chicago and moved back to Oneida. She got a job at the Oneida tribal school teaching Oneida language and basket making. She likes to make baby moccasins and she like to make corn bread and corn soup and do some canning. Her grandma goes in the woods and pick some herb’s and roots’s for her home remedy’s her advice to the youth is to stay in school and get a good education.Recording Type
Audio/VisualCollection
Elder InterviewsCataloged By
Gerzetich, Courtney (Cottrell)Category
Digital Media