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    Richard Dorson (interview)

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    This interview is included in the American Folklore Society Oral History Project held at the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. In this item, Richard M. Dorson is interviewed by Richard Reuss at the American Folklore Society annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee for the American Folklore Society Oral History Project. Biography/History note: Richard M. Dorson, folklorist, author, and educator, was born in New York City in 1916 and died in 1981. He earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard University and taught at Harvard and Michigan State University before becoming professor of history and folklore at Indiana University where he founded its Folklore Institute in 1963 and became the first director and first chair of the Folklore Department at Indiana University in 1978. This collection consists of 1 sound tape reel (40 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono. ; 7 in. It was originally recorded on November 2, 1973 at the American Folklore Society annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee by Richard Reuss on a Sony audiocassette. This is a first-generation copy

    Interview with Bella Francis with Roger Kaye, February 26, 1993

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    Oral history interview with Bella Francis and Roger Kaye as interviewer.INTERVIEW WITH BELLA FRANCIS WITH ROGER KAYE, FEBRUARY 26, 1993 This is Roger Kaye with Bella Francis. MR. KAYE: Bella, tell me, where were you born? MRS. FRANCIS: I was born in Orland Park, up the Porcupine River. MR. KAYE: What year? MRS. FRANCIS: 1928 MR. KAYE: How long did you stay up there? MRS. FRANCIS: I stayed up there until 1941. MR. KAYE: Who were your parents Bella? MRS. FRANCIS: My father was Charlie Francis. And Blanche is my mother’s name. MR. KAYE: And you were adopted? MRS. FRANCIS: I was adopted by my Dad. MR. KAYE: Who was that? MRS. FRANCIS: Charlie Strong. MR. KAYE: Tell me about Charlie Strong. MRS. FRANCIS: Charlie Strong married Mom when she was very young. He went up to Orland Park. They had a little trading post there for the people. There was about eighty people there. A lot of people from all over come there because he had a little store there. MR. KAYE: What kind of people came? MRS. FRANCIS: Well, Indians, and sometimes Eskimos. And a lot from Old Crow. MR. KAYE: Where did the Eskimos come from? MRS. FRANCIS: Well, there used to be a lot of Eskimos from up around Artic Village, up that way. MR. KAYE: Did you ever talk to them? MRS. FRANCIS: No. I see them, bit I didn’t talk to them. MR. KAYE: They didn’t bring kids? MRS. FRANCIS: No. They didn’t bring no kids. They probably did, but I don’t know I guess. MR. KAYE: What was your Dad’s trading post like? MRS. FRANCIS: Oh it just a log house. There was a drum stove over there to burn wood. It was just like other stores, you got a counter in there and shelves. He’d get all his stuff by getting it on a inboard launch and barge nanovik. He would go up the Porcupine River, that’s how he’d get his stuff up there. MR. KAYE: Where did he come from? MRS. FRANCIS: He came from Sweden. MR. KAYE: What brought him to Alaska? MRS. FRANCIS: He told me that he just ran away from his family when he was fourteen year old. Because of the hard times, and there were a lot of them, and he wanted to go to Alaska. So he made it up to Alaska around the time when he was twenty-five year old he said. MR. KAYE: Was he a good father? MRS. FRANCIS: Oh yeah! He was a really good father. He really brought me up good. MR. KAYE: Tell me about your mother, where was she from? MRS. FRANCIS: My mother is from Fort Yukon. They were pretty young too, all of them, my aunts and uncles they were pretty young when my grandpa, Dick Martin drownded. So, my grandma had quite a bit of kids to raise up by herself. MR. KAYE: Did you go to any school up at Old Rampart? MRS. FRANCIS: We had no school in Old Rampart. There was a school in Fort Yukon, but my Dad doesn’t want me, and my sisters to go to school. Even though we wanted to. He doesn’t trust anybody, that’s why he doesn’t want us to go to school in Fort Yukon. MR. KAYE: Why didn’t he trust people there? MRS. FRANCIS: Well, thinks we were going to get hurt, and things like that I guess. MR. KAYE: Did you want to go to Fort Yukon? Was it lonely being way out, way up the Porcupine, away from the village? MRS. FRANCIS: Oh no. Oh no. When we were in Fort Yukon, two month out of the year, we were in a hurry to go back. The reason we were in a hurry to go back was because we were in a hurry to pick berries, and go fishing and things like that. MR. KAYE: So, about two months out of the year you spent at Fort Yukon then. MRS. FRANCIS: Yes, from the first of June to the first of September. MR. KAYE: Was that to bring furs in and send them out? MRS. FRANCIS: Yes. He would bring all his furs, and he’d wait for his groceries what he sent for. All of that got to be taken care of. While we were there in Fort Yukon for two months people would help him, and he’d take all of the stuff up for the store and for us. He works year round. MR. KAYE: Tell me about the boat trip from Old Rampart up to Fort Yukon. MRS. FRANCIS: That was fun. When the first of June would come we’d like it. Up there, there were certain kinds of birds that we don’t have up that way, and we see all that. And we see a lot of people up the Porcupine River at that time. We see villages, and when we get close to Fort Yukon, we see tents. You know people go out camping in the springtime for muskrats and ducks, and fishing and everything like that. We really enjoyed ourselves. And they got in nice in the barge that we won’t be crowded. MR. KAYE: Tell me about your fathers barge. How big was it? And did he make it himself? MRS. FRANCIS: No, there’s a guy named Andy Johnson at Fort Yukon that made it. SIMON: It was Stanley too. MRS. FRANCIS: Stanley Luke too. MR. KAYE: How big was it? MRS. FRANCIS: Oh I don’t know. How big is it? MR. KAYE: A wooden barge? SIMON: Thirty feet, maybe forty. MR. KAYE: A plank boat? MRS. FRANCIS: It was a barge. SIMON: The barge was about forty feet. MRS. FRANCIS: Yeah, about forty feet. MR. KAYE: How many people would ride this barge down to Fort Yukon? MRS. FRANCIS: Lots. A lot of people. We’d pick people up on the way. SIMON: That barge could hold about twelve tons. MRS. FRANCES: We would pick them up on the way, that want to go in. Or help them out because their boat is small. Sometimes they had this small boat. They don’t all have big boats. So we helped them. You know, you have to take your dogs and all that with you because there was nobody in the came who will take care of them. You can’t go without dogs because don’t have no “snow goes” and things like that in those days. MR. KAYE: So how many people in your family rode the barge to Fort Yukon? MRS. FRANCIS: My family? All of us. MR. KAYE: How many, who was that? MRS. FRANCIS: Oh well, me, and my sisters, and we got one brother. My sister next to me is Doris, and there’s Jean, and Barbara and Bessie and Dick Strong. MR. KAYE: And how long would it take to get to Fort Yukon? MRS. FRANCIS: It’d take about a day and a half. MR. KAYE: A day and a half. Did he have a motor on the boat? An inboard? MRS. FRANCIS: Yeah, an inboard. MR. KAYE: And he had all of the furs that he had traded? MRS. FRANCIS: Yes. MR. KAYE: And how many dogs? MRS. FRANCIS: Oh, a lot of dogs sometimes. I will say maybe over ten. MR. KAYE: Oh really? MRS. FRANCIS: Yes. MR. KAYE: It must have been really crowded. MRS. FRANCES: No, it’s not crowded. SIMON: Sometimes there were five families on the barge, dogs and all. MR. KAYE: Oh really? So, as a little girl when you were living at Old Rampart, what did you do? How did you spend your days? MRS. FRANCIS: Oh gee, the days would just go so fast. Normally we would get up and Dad would talk to us about what we’re supposed to do. Help our mother around the house. When I was young I didn’t work outdoor too much. And when I got older I would work out. When we got big enough, maybe around eight or nice year old we always helped her out with cooking, and sweeping the floors, and things like that. There was always a lot of things to do. Making beds too. After lunch, then we all get dressed in all of our furs, and go down to the river and then we’d make our house. All the kids get on down there. It’s always so windy. The snow would get so hard you can just saw it out. Saw, it out and get it in a square. And we’d all make a house for ourselves. Just like we helped our mother, we’d do the same thing at our house. We would get our wooden knives and carve things. MR. KAYE: This was a kid’s house? MRS. FRANCIS: Yeah. Then if we’d get tired of that, we’d get together and we’d slide down, all the village kids. We’d go way up on the hill and pack the big toboggan up and we’d all pile in it and slide down. Or we’d play football. MR. KAYE: Oh really? MRS. FRANCIS: Oh, sometimes we’d do that until moonlight. Then they’d have to tell us to come in the house now. Next day, we’d do that again. We had all kinds of games. MR. KAYE: Tell me about the playhouses that you made as a kid at Old Rampart. MRS. FRANCIS. Well, the snowdrift would get so hard we’d cut it out. Sometimes we would saw, or axe and cut it in squares, and pile it up and make a house out of it. Big enough for two maybe three to sit in it. Some kids make it big, they got a lot of room in there. After we do that, we’d play in there. We’d carve. Maybe we’d carve doughnuts, and little biscuits, and plates and pots, and all that. We’d make a stove, and pretend we were cooking. And there were chairs and tables. We’d make it real nice. Then we pretended to visit each other, and send a biscuit over to the next snow house. Things like that. That’s what we’d do. MR. KAYE: And you had just your brother and sisters to play with at Old Rampart? MRS. FRANCIS: No. Other village kids too. MR. KAYE: At Old Rampart? MRS. FRANCIS: Yeah, at Old Rampart. MR. KAYE: And these were children of Indians? MRS. FRANCIS: Yes, all Indian kids. Then you’d get little snacks. Mother would give us little snacks. Me, I was always getting crackers from the store. Or some kids get dried, smoked meat. We pass around and share with each other. And we’d chew that. And we really enjoyed ourself that way. MR. KAYE: Did you have more store bought things ‘cause your father owned the store? MRS. FRANCIS: We had more than other kids. MR. KAYE: More than other kids? MRS. FRANCIS: Yeah. Because we got it right there you know. MR. KAYE: Besides you family, your brother and sisters, how many kids lived up at Old Rampart then? MRS. FRANCIS: Well, I don’t know, I can’t remember, but just one family was my husband’s family. When I remember it, I’d say there were about maybe ten boys, ten or eleven there at one house. Then another family had maybe eight or seven. That was Cyrus Blakely. Then another family that’s Henry Wilham, he had about seven or eight. So we’ll say that there’s more kids there than adults. There’s about maybe fifty, sixty kids. There were a lot of childrens. They did make a log schoolhouse, but they couldn’t get teacher. They had a hard time. They tried to get a teacher In those days you know, they had a Chief and Council. Our Chief really tried, but he couldn’t get anybody to teach. That’s why we couldn’t go to school. MR. KAYE: Did you plays with dolls when you were a girl? MRS. FRANCIS: Well, we didn’t have very much toys. MR. KAYE: You didn’t? MRS. FRANCIS: Unless our relatives sent us some. I had a china doll but I dropped it and that was it. We never had Christmas tree. Didn’t have no Christmas tree. And at Christmas time we had a potlatch we called it. Everybody would get together and eat together. Then they’d pass out presents. We didn’t have no toys so they’d give us, sometimes they’d sew things. They would give us, some people would get fur coats, new ones, and moccasins, mitts, or a scarf. We’d get a lot of goodies though. Hard candy come in big buckets in those days. And cookies. Cookies come in fifty or maybe sixty pound box, they come in. All different kind of cookies, real good ones. And all the dried fruits , they all come in boxes. Raisins come in boxes. Crackers come in boxes. Everything is boxed. The elderly would get leaf tobacco it come in a box. So, at Christmas they would have potlatch all the way to New Years. And they have good time. And they have a dance. They played just like now, a fiddle. They’d have a dance, and teach the kids how to dance. MR. KAYE: Really? Where was the dance held? MRS. FRANCES: They had a dance hall. MR. KAYE: Really? There in Old Rampart? MRS. FRANCIS: Yeah. They had a dance hall. MR. KAYE: How many buildings where there, about, in Old Rampart? MRS. FRANCIS: Gosh, I don’t know. There was a lot of buildings, but they all went down. MR. KAYE: How many would you say, Simon? SIMON: There was about twelve. MRS. FRANCIS: But there was more houses that went down. A lot of people stay in tents in those days. There was a log around the bottom and they staid in tents. Even in a blow. Even in Fort Yukon they used to do that. They all staid in tents, down in the village. Nowadays, they don’t do that. You know why they don’t do that? Because there’s danger nowadays. MR. KAYE: Oh really? MRS. FRANCIS: Those days, I remember when we live in the village, everything is outdoors. Like in front of the door, when they’d come back from hunting, they’d just put their gun against the wall there. They’d put their gun there, their axe there, their snowshoes there, till next time they go out again. MR. KAYE: What did you do for mosquitoes? MRS. FRANCIS: We had smudge. Up there’s a lot of bluffs, you know. There’s a certain kind of weeds that grow, like grass just like. They pick that up, and they make a fire. And they put that on it. That’s what kill mosquitoes. It smelled strong. Like buhack. The mosquito medicine smelled strong. That what they use. MR. KAYE: Looking back, what was the biggest hardship of living up there? MRS. FRANCIS: I don’t know. But sometime it really hard for people. “Cause its kind of way up, and it’s in a canyon you know. Sometime it’s hard to get food. I mean like meat and things like that. Or furs. MR. KAYE: Did you consider life a hardship being so far from town when you were a girl? MRS. FRANCIS: That’s true, that’s true. It’s hard to go to town you know. You have to go all the way with dogs. And sometime the weather is bad. MR. KAYE: Did you make the trip with dogs from Old Rampart? MRS. FRANCIS: Oh yeah, a lot of people come from Fort Yukon. MR. KAYE: What about you? Did you make that trip? MRS. FRANCIS: No, not me. MR. KAYE: What did your father do besides trade there? Did he trap at all? MRS. FRANCIS: He trapped. MR. KAYE: He trapped which way from Old Rampart? MRS. FRANCIS: Saminkut, he traps up that way. He traps over to Old Crow, up that way. MR. KAYE: Did you ever go with him? MRS. FRANCIS: No, at that time, I never go with him. MR. KAYE: You were still very young then? MRS. FRANCIS: Yeah, very young then. Then when we moved thirty-five mile below where they call Burnt Paw, when we moved there I was sixteen year old. So then he was getting ill. MR. KAYE: Oh, I see. MRS. FRANCIS: He was getting short of breath. I can’t go out very much. So when he went out with us, he taught me and my sister how to set trap and all that stuff. What do to, and all that stuff. We kind of know little bit from before, we see a lot of people do that in the village. So we start out. And sixteen, seventeen, eighteen and nineteen I trap. I trap all the way around up the Colling River, over the mountain, all over around there I trap. MR. KAYE: Before you tell me about living at Burnt Paw, as far as Old Rampart goes, didn’t they expand when you were there, and start building houses across the river? MRS. FRANCIS: Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Like some of those houses are very old. There was about four families. They built across the river, where there was nice timber there. They make a whole bunch of nice houses there and they move across. All of them got big family too. And we still stay on this side. A few families stay on this side. Every time we want to visit we get a little boat and go across the river to visit. We can wait til it freeze up too. After it freeze up, then we harness up two dogs and we go over. MR. KAYE: Oh really? MRS. FRANCIS: We visit like that, even at nighttime. Lot of time, we holler, and we holler, and tell kids to come over. So they’d do that. MR. KAYE: Was it dangerous, the Porcupine River? Did anyone drown when you were there? MRS. FRANCIS: No, nobody drowned when I was there. MR. KAYE: So, what year was it when you left Old Rampart? MRS. FRANCIS: 1941. MR. KAYE: In 1941. And you moved on to Burnt Paw? MRS. FRANCIS: Um hum. (agreeing) MR. KAYE: Why did your father move there? MRS. FRANCIS: Because he was ill. And it’s really hard for us up there you know, because it’s canyon, all over. Hard for us. Where we moved to is my uncle’s place, uncle Richard Martin’s place. He went to the Army, so he want us to move down there. It more easy. MR. KAYE: To Burnt Paw? MRS. FRANCIS: Yes, it’s easier than Old Rampart. That’s why we move. MR. KAYE: Did you build the cabin that’s there now? At Burnt Paw? MRS. FRANCIS: Yeah, in 1944 I build it. MR. KAYE: In 1944. There was a cabin there before? MRS. FRANCIS: It burned down. MR. KAYE: It burned down. Where did Burnt Paw get its name from? MRS. FRANCIS: I guess that long ago when people travel a lot, you know, always traveling out for food, and for things like that, I guess this one kit, this is what they told me, that one kit fell on the fire or hot ashes or something and burned the foot. MR. KAYE: Oh, I see. MRS. FRANCIS: So, in our language they say “burned foot”. So they just made it Burnt Paw. MR. KAYE: So you were about sixteen when you moved to Burnt Paw. MRS. FRANCIS: Yes. MR. KAYE: It that about when you started your own trap lines? MRS. FRANCIS: Yes. MR. KAYE: Tell me about your trapping. I remember we mapped it, and it was a tremendous length. Tell me about what you did, and how you went about it. MRS. FRANCIS: Your mean how I start out? MR. KAYE: Yes MRS. FRANCIS: Oh well, before we start out, like we said, on September first we go back up to village. The first thing we do, is we fish. Put nets in. I put maybe four or five nets in and try to get fish for the dogs. MR. KAYE: How many dogs did your family have at this time? MRS. FRANCIS: I always had nine, nine dogs. The rest of my sisters have dogs too. We get all the dog feed we can. MR. KAYE: How many salmon would that be, do you think? MRS. FRANCIS: For a year? MR. KAYE: Yes. MRS. FRANCIS: Oh gee, I don’t know. I can’t guess. But we get a lot of corn meal and tallows and all that too besides the fish. Probably, maybe eight hundred, a thousand maybe. We’d get all kinds of fish. Like whitefish. We put fishnet under ice. For eating and for dogs. My mom fished lots too. Sometimes fish ‘til Christmas. Depends on how the ice is too, how thick it gets. If it get too thick, then you have to pull your net out. Then while you’re doing that, you get your wood. We go back, and we get wood. Maybe three weeks we cut wood. Cut it all up, haul it. When snow come we haul it in. Then we cut it all up, and then we split it all up. We got to make kitchen wood, we call it kindling for cooking stove. We don’t have no propane stove. So, then outdoors we put big tarp over it. That’s for winter. We’d get meat, and caribou and moose. Then we’d get everything ready. Then, when snow come, when season opened, we fix our toboggan. Fix all the harness, and all our gears. Mom fixed all our clothes. Then we’d just start off. MR. KAYE: When you started trapping did you go alone, or did you go with someone? MRS. FRANCIS: Lot of time my sister went with me. MR. KAYE: Which one? MRS. FRANCIS: Doris, she was next to me. She was fourteen year old when she started. I was sixteen. But, I lost her after about a year. A lot of time I had to go alone. MR. KAYE: Did you think it unusual for a young girl to have a long trap line ? MRS. FRANCIS: I think it’s fun. When I see those women go in the races, in the dog races, I know how they feel. Because I really enjoyed myself when I was out alone. Out alone, and my dogs. Have a good time with the dogs. MR. KAYE: Were you ever afraid to go out? MRS. FRANCIS: Never! Never afraid to go out, never. Because in Colling River, there’s always a lot of bears. Even my dogs try to pull me in the brush because the first bear tracks go in the brush you know. I just hold them down. One thing, I was not afraid. MR. KAYE: When you trapped alone, how many nights would you be out on the trap line? MRS. FRANCIS: I didn’t stay long. The longest I stay out is maybe three nights, or two nights. MR. KAYE: I remember when we traced it on a map it was about ninety miles once. You must have gone a long ways. MRS. FRANCIS: I do go a long ways when I’m alone. That’s the funnest part. When you are alone you can go a long ways. When somebody’s with you, gee, you waste a lot of time. I can go up the Colling River to the cabin just like that, you know. But if my sister, or mother go with me, gee it’d take all day! MR. KAYE: Did you stay in tent camps sometimes? MRS. FRANCIS: Sometime tent camp, sometime little houses. We build one at let’s see, we build one at Colling River, at Fishkil we build one. That’s one, two, three, four, below our place, six mile, there’s a house too. So we had about five trapping houses. We had about two tents. MR. KAYE: Two tent camps? And how many dogs were you running now? MRS. FRANCIS: At that time? Nine. I always run nine. MR. KAYE: You had pretty good fur catches? MRS. FRANCIS: Oh yeah! Gee. . . MR. KAYE: What would you catch? MRS. FRANCIS: Well, one time was pretty good for link, I remember. It was pretty good for link. And I caught forty-two lynx. And a lot of other animals like fox . . . MR. KAYE: Was that in one year? MRS. FRANCIS: One year. MR. KAYE: And martins? MRS. FRANCIS: Martins, and the fox, and coyotes. MR. KAYE: Oh yeah? MRS. FRANCIS: We had about two or three coyotes one year. And wolverine, things like that. MR. KAYE: Did you skin them yourself? MRS. FRANCIS: No. That’s one thing, I don’t skin them. MR. KAYE: Who does? MRS. FRANCIS: I bring them home. My mom does. MR. KAYE: Oh really? MRS. FRANCIS: I only thing I don’t like is when we haul it. We have a tough time when we haul the lynx. MR. KAYE: Oh, the furs? MRS. FRANCIS: Yeah, when they’re frozen. MR. KAYE: Are you using traps, or snares? MRS. FRANCIS: Everything. Trap and snares. When we trap lynx, we make a house, and put trap, and then we put s

    Everything Curious': Samuel Hieronymus Grimm and Sir Richard Kaye

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    The British Library's Manuscript Collections contain a wealth of British topographical drawings which reflect the collecting instincts of antiquarians with a passion for recording, in word and image, the urban and rural landscapes around them. One such collector was the ecclesiastic and baronet Sir Richard Kaye, who recorded his thoughts in notebooks and correspondence. Over a twenty-year period, Kaye employed the artist Samuel Hieronymus Grimm as a travel companion, to record 'everything curious' that they discovered on their journeys across the country. The notebooks and drawings survive in the Library's collections. For today's local historian, these parallel sources provide a rare opportunity to recover the lost and pre-industrial landscapes of late eighteenth-century England. In particular they open a window into the everyday lives of the inhabitants of Kirkby-in-Ashfield in Nottinghamshire, where Kaye was rector and where Grimm visited on more than one occasion

    Folder 9: Schwiderski, Richard Craig v. State of Texas 2, 1979-1984

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    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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