The Oneida Speak

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The Oneida Speak documents the worldview and perspective of Oneida people in Wisconsin, past and present. More »

Program Length: 57 minutes
Production Staff: Producer: Michelle Danforth (Oneida)
Production Company: Wisconsin Public Television
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Format: DVD
Additional Resources Education Guide
Public Broadcast Release: February 2008

In 1935, while the country was deep in the Depression, a group of Oneidas in Wisconsin took advantage of a federal writing program designed to employ Americans and offer economic relief. Many, who wrote in their own language, recorded their daily life on the farm to a federal infiltrator sent to drive people off the land to a devastating small pox epidemic. Nominated for two Emmys.