Elder Interview-Harriet Reiter
Name/Title
Elder Interview-Harriet ReiterEntry/Object ID
A.2008.001.363Tags
Needs Accession Sheet, Needs Location, Needs PhotoDescription
Reiter, Harriet Arlene (Schuyler) Born 08/04/1939 Parents: Harriet "Hattie" Lavina (Moore) Schuyler and James Lawrence Schuyler Maternal Grandparents: Austin Moore and Augusta Moore Paternal Grandfather: William Schuyler She doesn’t remember her father’s parents because they were already passed away. Her mother always did a lot of cooking. Both of her parents belonged to the Oneida Methodist Church. They had an old wood stove for cooking and heating the house. Her father worked in construction and farming. He went to boarding school in Tomah. Her father spoke the language but her mother couldn’t. He never taught his children the language. They use to pick beans and cucumbers for extra money. She went to school at Chicago Corners. The roads use to be dirt roads. There were no blacktop roads around the area. She went to high school in Seymour. She went back to school in 1958 for half a year so she could graduate. She worked at Zwicker Knitting in Appleton. She went back to school in Milwaukee for sectorial school. She graduated from there in 1960. She got married to Warren Reiter in 1961. He worked at a business doing welding. She moved to Keshena in 1965 and worked as a house keeper for an elderly man and she then worked as a secretary in Keshena from 1963-1969. She moved back to Oneida and got a job at social services in Brown County from 1969-1977. She became a director from 1977 at the Oneida Income Maintence Program. She stayed there until 1993. She then went to work as a teacher’s aide at the Turtle School. She’s been there for 5 years already. She has 17 grandchildren.Recording Type
Audio/VisualCollection
Elder InterviewsCataloged By
Gerzetich, Courtney (Cottrell)Category
Digital Media