Pamela Halverson

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Pamela Halverson was born in Marshall, Minnesota in 1952 to Wallace and Lorraine Gregg. Her Dakota name is Wa Duta Win meaning Red Snow Woman. She is enrolled as a member of and lives on the Lower Sioux Reservation.

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You can feel the coldness in there Pamela Halverson \| Oral History	Theme: 1862 Topics: Lower Sioux Agency, U.S. Government, Spirituality Keywords: Lower Sioux Community, Annuity
Our ancestors fought for survival Pamela Halverson \| Oral History	Theme: 1862 Topics: Causes of War, Survival, Perspectives on 1862 Keywords: Survival
We commemorate them every day. Pamela Halverson \| Oral History	Theme: 1862 Topics: Ways of Commemorating, Mankato Hangings, Education for Understanding Keywords: Honor, History, Education, Commemoration
I’d wish to be the people we were Pamela Halverson \| Oral History	Theme: Culture and Values Topics: Dakota Culture and Values Keywords: History
Our camp was Kaposia Pamela Halverson \| Oral History	Theme: Shared History Topics: Treaties, Reservations, Genocide, U.S. Government Keywords: Homeland, Reservations, Lower Sioux Community, Dakota and U.S. Gov't
Our people fought terrorism for a long time Pamela Halverson \| Oral History	Theme: Shared History Topics: Dakota Land, U.S. Government, Homestead Act Keywords: Homeland, Medicine, Land Loss
Those grandmas, they were real no-nonsense. Pamela Halverson \| Oral History	Theme: Growing Up Topics: Growing Up, Boarding School, Education, Dakota Culture and Values, Discrimination Keywords: Boarding School, School

Oral History- Interview | Narrator Pamela Halverson Interviewer Deborah Locke | Wednesday, February 23, 2011

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