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Oral history interview with Barbara A. Mackenzie [Sound Recording 04]
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- 1999-09-30 (Creation)
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Audiocassette; 00:29:55
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Barbara Amanda Mackenzie, nee Tudor, was born in Colorado in 1905. She grew up in Sutherlin, Oregon, and later attended St. Mary's Academy and Lincoln High School in Portland. She earned a teaching degree from the Oregon Normal School (now known as Western Oregon University). In 1926, she and Thomas T. Mackenzie were married; they later had two children. Mackenzie was director of the U.S. government project that relocated Native Americans displaced by the construction of The Dalles Dam in eastern Oregon and Washington state. She also worked as a teacher in California and Oregon, working primarily with marginalized populations, and as a caseworker for the Red Cross in Arlington, Virginia. Barbara Mackenzie died in 2002.
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Tape 2, Side 2. This oral history interview with Barbara A. Mackenzie was conducted by Katy Barber at Mackenzie’s home in Portland, Oregon, from September 27, 1999, to June 1, 2001. Barbara Mackenzie’s son, Thomas R. Mackenzie, and Jan Dilg were also present during the sessions recorded in 2001. The interview was conducted in four sessions. The first part of session one was not recorded. In the second interview session, conducted on September 30, 1999, Mackenzie continues discussing her role in the relocation of members of the Warm Springs, Yakama, Umatilla, and Nez Perce tribes. She talks about her relationship with Flora Cushinway Thompson of the Wyam people, some of her advocacy on behalf of indigenous people, and where she felt the local authorities were neglecting indigenous people’s needs. She also talks about Temmingway Moses, a Yakama woman who tended a cemetery near the Maryhill Museum in Washington; the attitudes of the population at The Dalles towards Native Americans; and her working relationship with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. She talks about Abe Sholoway, a Umatilla man who acted as interpreter; her efforts to get Native American marriages legally recognized; and attending the Pendleton Round-Up. She also talks about the processes of the relocation project and how she got involved. She shares her opinion about assimilation and the U.S. government’s practice of tribal termination. She talks about her brother, Ralph Tudor, who served as undersecretary of the Interior under President Dwight D. Eisenhower and worked as an engineer on the Bay Bridge and Bay Area Rapid Transit in the San Francisco Bay Area. She also discusses some of her secretaries and revisits the topics of working as a teacher with marginalized groups in California and her work with the Red Cross in Virginia. She then talks about serving as executive for the Red Cross in Lincoln County, Oregon.
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Joint copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society and the Oregon Military Museum. Use is allowed according to the following statement: In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/.
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- eng
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- Indians of North America--Relocation--Oregon--Celilo
- Indians of North America » Indians of North America--Oregon
- Indians of North America » Indians of North America--Oregon » Wyam Indians
- Teachers--Oregon
- Teachers--California
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- American Red Cross
- Celilo Falls Indian Relocation Project
- Thompson, Flora Cushinway, 1893-1978
- Tudor, Ralph A. (Ralph Arnold), 1902-1963
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- Barber, Katrine (Contributor)