American Indian Studies
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The American Indian Studies program at CSULB, founded in 1969.2024-03-29T07:20:51ZScillens, Christine (audio interview #3 of 3)
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/215016
Scillens, Christine (audio interview #3 of 3)
Scillens, Christine (b. 1920 - ); Hobson, Brooke, interviewer
INTERVIEW DESCRIPTION - This is the last of three interviews conducted for a Women's Studies class focused on women during WWII. The interviewer and narrator knew each other from classes that they took in the American Indian Studies program. The narrator was open and willing to share her experiences, particularly because of the interviewer's known familiarity with and respect for native traditions and culture.
Date Not available
SUBJECT BIO - Christine Scillens is a Teton Sioux woman who joined the Army Nurses Corps during WWII. She was active in the American Indian Movement and the American Indian Studies program at CSULB. Born on a South Dakota reservation, Scillens was put into a Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) boarding school when she was only six years old. She continued in various schools, going home only in the summer, until she entered college in Kansas City. After two years in college, she moved to Chicago and went to work in the BIA office there. In 1942, she enlisted in the Women's Army Corps, signing up for overseas duty. After training, she was sent to a medical station in New Caledonia, where she remained for six months. She then went to Fort Mason in San Franciso, where she worked in the hospital. She married a man serving in the Navy in 1944. After she was discharged in 1945, she moved to Vallejo, where her husband was stationed. She eventually moved to the Los Angeles area.
TOPICS - expectations for future; barracks life; discharge and life as a civilian; attitude toward war; and attitude toward children going into service; marriage to German; working after marriage; cook in maternity hospital; adopting twin girls; move to Indiana; move to California; raising children in her tradition; living in Mexican neighborhood; and life during
2020-01-30T00:00:00ZScillens, Christine (audio interview #2 of 3)
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/215015
Scillens, Christine (audio interview #2 of 3)
Scillens, Christine (b. 1920 - ); Hobson, Brooke, interviewer
INTERVIEW DESCRIPTION - This is the second of three interviews conducted for a Women's Studies class focused on women during WWII. The interviewer and narrator knew each other from classes that they took in the American Indian Studies program. The narrator was open and willing to share her experiences, particularly because of the interviewer's known familiarity with and respect for native traditions and culture.
Date not available.
SUBJECT BIO - Christine Scillens is a Teton Sioux woman who joined the Army Nurses Corps during WWII. She was active in the American Indian Movement and the American Indian Studies program at CSULB. Born on a South Dakota reservation, Scillens was put into a Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) boarding school when she was only six years old. She continued in various schools, going home only in the summer, until she entered college in Kansas City. After two years in college, she moved to Chicago and went to work in the BIA office there. In 1942, she enlisted in the Women's Army Corps, signing up for overseas duty. After training, she was sent to a medical station in New Caledonia, where she remained for six months. She then went to Fort Mason in San Franciso, where she worked in the hospital. She married a man serving in the Navy in 1944. After she was discharged in 1945, she moved to Vallejo, where her husband was stationed. She eventually moved to the Los Angeles area.
TOPICS - going to Chicago; joining the Women's Auxiliary Corps; signing up for overseas duty; interest in radio school; basic training at Drake University; 1943 becoming part of regular Army; Fort Bliss, Texas; training f life in New Caledonia; attitude toward Red Cross during war; segregation of Blacks; mother's illness and discharge from army; marriage; discharge exam; civilian life; and parents attitudes towards her marriage;
2020-01-30T00:00:00ZScillens, Christine (audio interview #1 of 3)
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/214572
Scillens, Christine (audio interview #1 of 3)
Scillens, Christine (b. 1920 - ); Hobson, Brooke, interviewer
INTERVIEW DESCRIPTION< - This is the first of three interviews conducted for a Women&aposs Studies class focused on women during WWII. The interviewer and narrator knew each other from classes that they took in the American Indian Studies program. The narrator was open and willing to share her experiences, particularly because of the interviewer&aposs known familiarity with and respect for native traditions and culture.
SUBJECT BIO< - Christine Scillens is a Teton Sioux woman who joined the Army Nurses Corps during WWII. She was active in the American Indian Movement and the American Indian Studies program at CSULB. Born on a South Dakota reservation, Scillens was put into a Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) boarding school when she was only six years old. She continued in various schools, going home only in the summer, until she entered college in Kansas City. After two years in college, she moved to Chicago and went to work in the BIA office there. In 1942, she enlisted in the Women&aposs Army Corps, signing up for overseas duty. After training, she was sent to a medical station in New Caledonia, where she remained for six months. She then went to Fort Mason in San Franciso, where she worked in the hospital. She married a man serving in the Navy in 1944. After she was discharged in 1945, she moved to Vallejo, where her husband was stationed. She eventually moved to the Los Angeles area.
TOPICS- family background; early life and cultural traditions; schooling; life at boarding school; assimilation and parents; roles on the Reservation; home life on the Reservation; celebrations and ceremonies; spiritual beliefs; life in high school; reservation reaction to Scillens coming back; ambitions in high school; working at summer resort; college in Kan
2019-12-23T00:00:00ZSaiers, Corinne (audio interview #1 of 1)
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/214571
Saiers, Corinne (audio interview #1 of 1)
Saiers, Corinne; Gabriel, Kathy, interviewer
INTERVIEW DESCRIPTION< - This single, short interview was conducted in conjunction with a class in American Indian Studies, a program in which both the native narrator and the Anglo interviewer were enrolled.
SUBJECT BIO< - Corinne Saiers is a Navajo woman who was born in a Mission in New Mexico. One of eight girls, she lived on her grandmother&aposs farm after her mother left her father, until her mother remarried. When she was sent to the Navajo boarding school, she knew no English. Her two years there were hell. Her mother took her out of the school after she became sick and sent her to public school. She still did not speak proper English when she entered the sixth grade. No details are available on her later life except that she was a student in the American Indian Studies program at the time of the interview.
TOPICS: - family background, siblings and parents, living with grandmother on farm, boarding school, speaking Navajo, public school, learning English, and abuse at boarding school
2019-12-20T00:00:00Z