Interview with Mary Pelletier on June 24, 2000. Mary discusses the church, her parents, and growing up with horses; family, travelling to school, and mud plastering and white washing houses; why she could not go to dances; her mother, sewing, gardens, and her wedding; speaking "Cree" (Michif), learning English, getting into fights at school and her brothers and sisters. She tells a story about having to hike all the way to Yorkton; and growing up in Crooked Lake. She tells a story about a fur coat her dad wanted her to wear to school. Mary discusses the difficult housework women had to perform, her mother having a child with the help of a midwife and going to the nurse at the mission when someone was sick.
Pelletier, Mary