>>Lizz Toombs: Hi, Jackie. I was wondering
if you could tell me a little bit about the
Indian Pioneer Papers?
>>Jackie Reese: Sure, this is another one
of our digital resources available at digital.libraries.ou.edu.
We'll go into the Western History Section
again. "Indian Pioneer Papers" is the second
one on the page. These were oral history interviews
that were done in the 1930s. It was a WPA
project of putting people back to work, and
people were hired to go around Oklahoma and
interview Natives and pioneers, hence the
name. And so these are really rich resources
for oral history, lots of interviews about
settling Oklahoma
>>Lizz Toombs: Mmhmm.
>>Jackie Reese: --from the white perspective,
but also from the Native perspective, peoples
who were here already--
>>Lizz Toombs: Okay.
>>Jackie Reese: --when that was happening.
So let's go into our advanced search towards
the top of the screen. In the advanced search,
let's type in "war" and "women," and then
let's in the drop-down box choose "subject"--
>>Lizz Toombs: Mmhmm.
>>Jackie Reese: --and then we'll click on
"search." We'll see what see what we get.
>>Lizz Toombs: Okay.
>>Jackie Reese: Looks like we've just got
one result, and there's a thumbnail image,
and then beside the thumbnail or you can hover
over the thumbnail--
>>Lizz Toombs: Mmhmm.
>>Jackie Reese: --and it will tell you the
subjects that are within that interview.
>>Lizz Toombs: Okay.
>>Jackie Reese: So let's go ahead and click
on that, and so then it tells you the name
of the person that was interviewed at the
top of the PDF, sometimes at the top of the
screen--
>>Lizz Toombs: Mmhmm.
>>Jackie Reese: --and then it just is the
interview--
>>Lizz Toombs: Okay.
>>Jackie Reese: --that was done with that
person.
>>Lizz Toombs: All right, and this is really
great because I know during the Civil War
settlement era, it was a little difficult
to find narratives in sort of like--
>>Jackie Reese: Right. Mmhmm.
>>Lizz Toombs: --print form, and so this is
a great resource for sort of filling in that
blank when we 're looking--
>>Jackie Reese: Yup.
>>Lizz Toombs: --at some really hard to find--
>>Jackie Reese: It really is.
>>Lizz Toombs: --subjects.
>>Jackie Reese: It really is. It gets that,
that first hand account of--
>>Lizz Toombs: Mmhmm.
>>Jackie Reese: --life in a very dynamic time--
>>Lizz Toombs: Mmhmm.
>>Jackie Reese: --in, in what is now Oklahoma.
>>Lizz Toombs: Mmhmm. And it looks like what
we have here is an interview with a Cherokee
woman about law enforcement and medicine in
here, here in Oklahoma and she talks a little
bit--
>>Jackie Reese: Mmhmm.
Lizz Toombs: --about pre-removal as well.
>>Jackie Reese: Good. So--
>>Lizz Toombs: Yeah, that's a great resource.
>>Jackie Reese: There's, you can get a little
bit of everything with the Indian Pioneer
papers.
>>Lizz Toombs: Mmhmm.
>>Jackie Reese: It's a, it's a great resource
that covers a really broad scope of topics.
>>Lizz Toombs: Wonderful.
>>Jackie Reese: So lots of good things can
be found there.
>>Lizz Toombs: Great. Thank you.
>>Jackie Reese: You're welcome.
