Métis Cultural Recovery Oral History Collection Oral History Project
Organization
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Myrtle Reardon Interview
Collection
Identifier: OH-1914
Abstract
Myrtle Reardon was born in 1911, at Battle Creek, southwest of Choteau, Montana, the daughter of Adolph and Ellen (Salois) Bushman. The family moved into Choteau in the 1920s. She talks about leaving school in the 8th grade to help support the family; how the family kept quiet about circumstances around their leaving Canada after the Riel Rebellion; berry picking; Métis foods; getting rid of Red River carts; parents speaking French and Cree in the home; dances; 1910 forest fires; etc. (OH...
Dates:
1994.