Paul Buffalo Interviews Index

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video and audiotape index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
This is an index of the hardcopy transcripts, not the 0n-line chapters.
Index numbers refer only to where a discussion starts, or resumes.

tape number:

01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60
61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75
76 77 78 79 80 81 82 (videotape)

babies	61-16, 65-25, 69-02
background	07-11
bacon grease	64-22
"bad"	15-35, 15-36
bag	79-35, see also "medicine bag"
Bagley, MN	66-21
balance	02-02, 05-05, 05-06, 12-31, 14-130
ball	81-27, see also "games"`
Ball Club, MN	08-63, 08-77 (council), 08-80, 08-94, 13-72, 13-92, 13-95, 45-08, 52-14, 52-45, 53-02, 61-24, 63-03, 66-16, 66-20, 66-33, 77-09, 78-11, 78-16, 78-29, 81-30
Ball Club Lake	08-92, 81-22
Ball Club River	66-27
ball team	07-22 (Cass Lake, MN), 07-23, see also "team"
balsam	14-131, 61-01, 63-20, 63-22, 63-23, 63-35, 70-24
Balsam (sp?) [Indian agent]	11-03
bands	04-05 (Mississippi; general discussion), 06-18 (population), 06-19 (and cars; population increase), 08-12 (moccasin game), 08-71 (White Oak and Mississippi; 1920s councils and resolutions), 08-79 (band = en-dah-nah-kiid = "that's where he works"),, 10-63 (and working together; Old Council -- pre-New-Deal; and government), 15-43 (and food), 31-34 (family groups getting together), 41-03 (?), 81-06 (linguistics, cf., 08-79) , see also "group," "bunches," "divisions," "residence / residential groups"
bank	14-80, 78-03, 78-13
baptism	10-44 (mother's willing), 12-11, 12-12, 52-16, 66-15 (leg stroke >> dream), 66-16, 69-03,
bark	01-11 (in April), 01-12 (baskets; bird houses); 29-09 (roofing), 31-01, *31-03 (wigiwams; preparing bark) , 35-30 (spots in the river picked over), 42-07 (Hiawatha / Winibozho), 55-02 (scrolls), 57-21 (cutting ash diamond shape), 63-07 (ash; birch), 63-14, 68-23, see also individual trees
Barnes, Joe	05-12, 05-36, 09-26, 09-59, 10-18, 41-24, 63-04, 66-20, 71-14
baskets	13-73 (maple sugar storage), 29-06 (deer-hoof), 31-11 (sap baskets), 57-16 (deer-hoof), 58-07 (winnowing), 63-35 (ling; large syrup; sap;mah-kak), 63-39 (ling; small naa-du-bin; cf . 31-11) , 64-04 (mah-kak for sugar) , 80-26 (young people buy baskets, old people make them; resthome baskets)
bass	66-11
basswood	63-23, 80-27
Battle Point	10-38
Bay-bu-ka-way	52-41
beads / beadwork	35-04 (to sell; selling to lumberjacks), 51-04 (beads from megis), 52-12 (?), 61-17 (and velvet in store; 1st = 1918; Canadian), 66-13 (ling; # on items sold), 79-10
bear / bear claws	01-03 (could see in right seasons; and porcupine), 09-50 (and birchbark picking; and Steve Jackson; and bear getting deer), 09-52 (bear getting deer, and hunting with Michaud; eating meat), 09-54 (killing bear), 09-58 (stepping on cubs, and eating), 10-37 (raising bear story), 25-28 (bear claw; and philosophy; raising bear story; eating meat), 27-29 (eating; shooting bear), 57-06 (bear deadfall), 61-14 (ling), 61-26 (mating; in camping spot)
Beaulieu, Paul	49-11
beaver	08-19, 68-19, 80-05
Bebeau, Jim
bedding	63-19
bedwetting (cure of)	37-11
beer	49-10
bees	10-40, 10-68, 35-13, 66-30
beliefs	08-22, 13-140, 13-126, 27-54, 37-02, 74-04, 82-06, see also "values," and "views"
Bellengers	79-25
Bemus	72-23
Bena, MN	08-81 (council), 09-01 (Bena school = 1st, ca. 1909, 1906) , 09-31 (and farm at Bena), 10-67 (council and interpreting letter re drinking representative) , 11-01 (council), 13-72 (as early camping grounds), 13-114 (gong to Bena Indian school), 41-21 (CC camp), 49-03 (Fred Crow = grandfather; store; mother), 57-01 (logging/gardening; selling place >> social security), 57-28 (Tom selling mother firewood; Bena place ? going to heck), 60-02 (name ceremony), 61-17 (Flemming's general store, ca. 1925), 62-27 (and wife leaving, 1917; dance incident and Ed Rogers, 1919), 62-32 (dance hall), 63-02 (paper shack -- Jack Nason), 66-16 (man; sickly -- baptism), 66-19 (Bena church), 66-24 (Flemming's store), 70-08 (mother >> Bena; distance oved = 10-11 mi.), 70-13 (s....), 70-14 (wigiwam; Jack Nason) , 72-21 (rations), 72-23 (Flemming's store; Bemis [?] = agriculture agent), 78-28 (Flemming's store), 78-40 (CC camp)
berries	01-11 (blueberries = sure of the season), 01-12 (energy for blueberry picking for sugar), 29-12 (maple sugar >> blueberries), 31-16 (scouting for blueberries; drying blueberries; etc.), 35-02, 63-23 (and dye), 67-21 (selling), see also individual types of berries
best years	51-13, 51-51
betterment	05-03, 13-15, 14-04, 22-30 (et passim), 22-40, 55-10, see also "development," and "community development"
BIA	see "Bureau of Indian Affairs"
Bible	66-17 ff.
birch bark	01-12, 55-02 (scrolls), 57-21, 63-07, 63-08, see also "bark"
birch trees	14-91, 14-129, 70-20
birds	45-02, 45-14, 60-23
birth	27-39, 36-12, 47-17, 47-18, 61-32, 70-22, 70-23, 78-44
blackberries	14-72, 72-26
black face	44-17
blackgowns	12-15
black horses	44-12
"black man"	75-23, see also "shadow man"
black (wild) rice	64-19
Blacks	08-67, 27-65, 49-09
"blanket shoes"	73-17
blood	06-31 (white), 14-43, 37-09, 72-07
bloodletting	12-55 (headache, high blood pressure, snowblind >> Paul Buffalo's bloodletting), 14-57 (sucking doctor), 45-15 (and women), 59-04 (and sweatbath; Mati Kaups interview; scar), 69-25, 72-10 (stopped doing it), 77-08 (ling and general description)
bloodroots	47-24
blowing	68-13
blueberries	09-07 (looking for blueberries on river; selling, at Dumas' store or Deer River; seeing deer along the river when it was hotter, during blueberry time), 31-16 (scouting for blueberries; drying; etc.), 38-02 (drying blueberries; didn't have jars), 62-15 (ling; swamp berries; cranberry; blueberry), 64-05 (100 quarts sauce; 300 quarts picked), see also "berries"
boarding schools	35-18, 56-24, see also "schools" and "education"
boat	05-13, 05-19, 27-32 (river), 57-25, 76-01, 78-45, 79-22
bobcat	62-33
Boblink, John	10-74
body	01-10, 13-02, 13-137, see also other entries
body movements	08-05
boiling over	09-45
Bois Forte	see "Nett Lake"
"bone doctor"	77-01, 79-29, see also "medicine doctors"
bones	14-57, 46-02, 52-30
bood / "book"	08-27, 08-32, 14-36, 38-01, 43-07, 47-13, 68-16, 80-17
bootlegging	62-88
borrowing	27-16
bounty	30-
Bovey, MN	77-11
bow and arrow	09-09 (partridge hunting; descripton), 29-06, 46-16 (hunting; description), 57-13 (general), 57-15 (shooting distance)
bowl	64-02
Bowstring	79-04, 80-37
Bowstring, Tom	79-19
Boyd, George	47-35
boyhood days	10-65, see also other listings
Boy River, MN	57-35, 78-33, 79-20, 79-25
Bradley, Tom	45-39, 74-27, 77-09
bragging	09-23, 13-48
brain	01-06, 03-06 (food), 65-20, 74-34
brave	35-15, see also "scouts"
bread	05-18, 29-12, 31-17, 43-13, 43-16, 46-01, 46-02, 61-21, 73-28, see also "frybread," and "sourdough bread"
breastfeeding	65-25, see also "nursing"
"breed"	81-06, see also "mixedbloods"
brothers	see "family," "relatives," and names of brothers
brown-ees	47-06, 62-06, 68-22, see also "dwarfs," and "little people"
buckskin	63-27, 63-32, 79-01, 79-36
Budreau	01-07, 08-45
Buffalo, Dave	see "Staples, Dave"
buffalofish	66-10
Buffalo, Henry	21-29, 50-25, 54-, 60-06, 60-15
Buffalo, Mrs. Henry	55-23
Buffalo, Jim	58-34, 67-05, 67-06, 70-16
Buffalo, Katie	67-08
Buffalo, Mary	37-03
Buffalo, "Old Lady"	60-15
Buffalo, "Tiny"	61-13, see also sons
Buffalos	50-23, 52-28
bull	78-15
bullheads	64-23, 66-09, 80-70, see also "fish / fishing"
"bunch" / bunches	10-63 (working together), 13-63 (basic groups), 13-68 (basic groups), 13-71, 31-34, 35-25, 64-32 (ling "division"; chief = "business man of the group"), 67-10 (bunch), 67-37 (definition of bunch; buying canoes; grand mother's time in Duluth, how to portage, Canadian beads), 68-31 (; def; splitting up), 69-01 (ling), 80-13 (ling), see also "bands," "divisions," "factions," "groups," "group residence / residential groups"
Bungo	49-09
Bureau of Indian Affairs	04-06, 08-35, 08-73, 08-78, 43-36, 78-36
burials	14-25, 51-46 (scaffold burial), 52-17, 60-11, 67-39, see also "wakes," "funerals," "death / dead / dying," and "mourning"
burns	71-01
businesses	53-23
butterflies	58-26