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Grandmother Baker, 921125

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0404 - Summary/Objective
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040501 - Follow up ref SDS 1 J66F.
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040503 - Followed up work at
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0408 - Discussion
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040901 - Grandmother is severley contorted with osteoperosis.  She has a hard
040902 - time getting around, but her mind and voice are very sharp and strong.
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040905 - She was diagnosed with osteroprosis about 15 years ago in her mid-60s,
040906 - and it has gotten steadily worse.
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040909 - It was fun to recall for grandmother how growing up she always seemed
040910 - so strong and lively to us kids, even more so than our mother, her
040911 - daughter.  Grandmother used to pick us kids up and fling us up in the
040912 - air and catch us.  Grandmother said that in those days mother was
040913 - often pregnant so she seemed weak and tired to her children.
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040916 - Grandmother said that growing up she lived on an Indian reservation
040917 - during the early 1900s, in Oklahoma.  Her family ran the store for the
040918 - Indians.  Her mother would give Indians extra eggs and other dairy
040919 - products that her father produced on their ranch.
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040922 - Some of the Indians had oil, so some shopkeepers raised their prices
040923 - to get more money.
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040926 - They had to ride 10 miles or so to get to town.
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040929 - Grandmother recalled many adventures she had playing with Indian kids
040930 - on the reservation.  They taught her about some of the Indian ways and
040931 - traditions.  There was also an transition going on, because Indians
040932 - who had land where oil was found were very rich, and wanted to adopt
040933 - modern conveniences.
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040936 - She related a harrowing experience when an Indian got drunk and drove
040937 - up to their property, and shot a number of rounds into the house.  No
040938 - one was hurt, so no report was made, and the Indian was not
040939 - prosecuted.  Grandmother was very proud of her parents for working
040940 - things out like that on the reservation, rather than always involving
040941 - the authorities.
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040944 - Grandmother's experience growing up on the Indian reservation, and
040945 - having Indians as playmates, led her to marry an Indian.  The marriage
040946 - did not last, but provided our family with Indian genetic heratiage.
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040949 - This was a wonderful, exciting story of frontier life.  Grandmother
040950 - tired, and we had to leave.
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