Delphine Montour metis woman of 55 years French and Seneca/Haudenosaunee (Iroquois.)
Born 1810 at Buffalo Creek
Interview conducted by Destiny Kinal, author of Linen Shroud
DK: Did the boarding school experience at the Thomas School account for your separation from your tribe? After all, the boarding schools’ avowed purpose was to take the Indian out of the Indian.
DM: (A long silence, then:) So we are going to play hardball? Yes! Yes! Is that what you wanted to hear?”
…Read more of the interview at History Imagined