| Title |
Bruce Shumway, Blanding, Utah, Uranium History Series |
| Alternative Title |
Bruce Shumway, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Shumway, Bruce |
| Contributor |
Biel, Kathy |
| Date |
1970-08-10 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Blanding, San Juan County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Shumway, Bruce--Interviews; Navajo Indians--Education; Navajo Indians--Employment; Indigenous peoples--North America |
| Keywords |
Native Americans |
| Description |
Transcript (31 pages) of an interview by Kathy Biel with Bruce Shumway, on August 10, 1970. From tape number 6 in the Uranium History Series |
| Abstract |
Kathy Biel interviewed Bruce Shumway, director of Social Services Region Eight, in Blanding. Subjects: Social Service programs, Navajo children in White homes, Navajos moving off reservation, employment opportunities for Navajos, changing attitudes, problems adjusting to urban living, housing, Navajo miners (31 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
31 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Rights Holder |
For further information please contact Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah at spcreference@lists.utah.edu or (801)581-8863 or 295 South 1500 East, 4th Floor, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6zw3szc |
| Topic |
Navajo Indians--Education; Navajo Indians--Employment |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1055223 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6zw3szc |
| Title |
Page 26 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1055215 |
| OCR Text |
Show SHUMWAY PAGE 24 a beautiful stone, and some of the homes are plumbed, or bathed, and everything, waiting for the time that the water will come. And we have some, even, at Navajo Mountain, where they're all wired for electricity and the electricity is still twenty-five miles away. It may stay there. KB .. : But they're waiting. They're ready. BS: They're all ready for it. All these innovations they've taken on their own. We've been there to give them the know-how, but they've requested it. I remember when I first started, why, I had some people come into my home from the reservation, and they saw· the carpet and everything, and they just couldn't get over the type of home I had. Some of these same men went back and they started to work on some of these things for their homes. So they're anxious to change. And this is the reason I mentioned earlier. We work sometimes fifty years to get one change in the White culture; · with these people, why, just in a few months we s.ee a terrific change, you really do. KB.: What about the reception of the employers here to employing Navajo Indians? Do you have a problem convincing them that they should hire Navajos.? RS: This is b.ecoming more and more a popular thing. We really haven't pushed it. Well say the right thing at the right time, in other |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6zw3szc/1055215 |
