Elder Interview-Mary Danforth
Name/Title
Elder Interview-Mary DanforthEntry/Object ID
A.2008.001.100Tags
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Danforth, Mary Laura (Antone) Born 3/28/1928 in Bowler, WI Parents: Wilson Antone & Eunice (Skenandore) Antone Maternal grandparents: Dixon and Jane Skenandore I remember them coming to visiting a lot when I was young. I have 11 siblings, and I was next to the youngest. They never lived in Oneida. They moved them up to Bowler for his job. He was a woodcutter. They moved up to Bowler before I was born. My father died in 1930. I went to a public school. I never went to an Indian school. My father works out in the woods and my mother stay at home taking care of the family and the house work. We didn’t have running water or electricity. We use Kerosene lamps and a wood stove for heat and cooking. We didn’t have to haul water we had a water pump. My mother would make corn bread and corn soup. Her mother taught her how to make it. My mother didn’t have any schooling. I don’t remember if my father had any schooling. We went to a Lutheran Church. We always had a tree at Christmas time; we would all help trim the tree. We would get a present’s. We didn’t do much for Hoyon New Years Day, because there weren’t too many people who knew what Hoyon meant where we lived. I left school and got married at 14 or 15 years old. Then we move to Steven Point. I moved back by my mothers’ house, because my husband went in the service. My husband name is Baptist Steven’s, we had 5 children. After the service we moved to Oneida. My parents spoke Oneida language a lot. I had to listen to them and that’s how I learned how to speak the Oneida language. I got a job cleaning houses. My mother made a lot of basket and I helped too. I make corn husk dolls. My parents and uncle’s use to sing at wakes. I learn to sing too. I have 19 grandchildren. I am a Turtle Clan.Recording Type
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Elder InterviewsCataloged By
Gerzetich, Courtney (Cottrell)Category
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