HALPERNMARILYN

Interview with Marilyn Halpern, Transcript, 1973

 

1973-04-11

 

 

Doctor Marilyn Halpern grew up on a Six Nations Indian reserve in southern Ontario, Canada. She received her education in one-room schoolhouses on the reserve until she was 14, went to a white high school in town, then left the reserve when she got married at the age of 21. Halpern went on to earn her bachelors degree at San Diego State and a PhD from the University of California, San Diego. She joined the faculty of San Diego State College in 1972, teaching sociology and anthropology. At the time of this interview, she was one of only two persons of American Indian descent on the San Diego State faculty.

Six Nations of the Grand River; One-room schoolhouses; Class sizes; Interviews; Oral histories; Cayuga language; Indian reserves; First Nations; Iroquois languages; One-room houses; San Diego State College; Night school; Brantford, Ontario, Canada; Native Americans; Minorities in higher education; Longhouse religion (Iroquois); Culture shock; Euchre card games; Bureau of Indian Affairs; Racism; Civil service; Louis R. Bruce; United States Department of the Interior; Richard M. Nixon; Office of Economic Opportunity; OEO; Self Determination Act; Indian Citizenship Act; Indian Civil Rights Act; Treaties; Civil rights; Russell Means; Activists; Battle of Wounded Knee; Hunger in America (film); American Indian education; Stereotypes

 

 

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