https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/db2da01a8a8936878ff64b2e7dee41ba.pdf 1cbf0bbc8d67b50487d89e9afb451454 PDF Text Text DAISY HOUSE (Cheetah) EAGLE "My mother was Fannie House, a relative of the House family at Towoac. Jack House, the last chief of the Ute Mountain Utes was my cousin. My father was John Cheetah from Northern Ute, I do not remember him since he died shortly after I was born, but my mother told me he was a blacksmith at the old Indian Agency north of town. Before my mother married John, she was married to Julian Buck. My half-brother, Daniel Buck, attended the Santa Fe Indian School, but died while he was still a young man. My two half-sisters were July Turner and Ellen Watts. July was kicked by a horse and died while she was a young girl," "I was born February 22, 1904 at the Southern Ute Agency, The long white building where I was born is still there. The first place I can remember living was a canvas wigwam located just across the bridge east from Ignacio. Since my mother was a widow, she worked very hard making beadwork and beaded moccasins and leather saddles to sell. She taught me to do beaded belts and moccasins. When I was 5 years old she sent me to the Southern Ute Boarding School. Dolly Watts, Edith Burch and Ollie l)ler started at the same time. We all cried. We were afraid and we didn't want to go. It was just as bad as we thought it would be. The big girls pinched us and teased us. The next year I got to go to Spring Creek School, It was a small country school with a lot of Anglo children. That's where I learned English." "In 1918 the terrible flu epidemic came across the country and my mother died from pneumonia. I went to live with my cousin, Paige Wright at La Boca. I helped herd the sheep and do other work. It was at La Boca School I finished the 8th grade, A few years later I met Amos Eagle. Amos liked to do farm work. He had worked as a farm laborer at Rocky Ford. We were married at the courthouse in Durango. Our first home was a 3 room adobe house on my mother's Spring Creek Allotment. It was a Wjlrm house and big enough for us at that time. Amos was a good farmer. He raised hlly and grains and sheep and cattle. He sold cows whenever we needed money. In the'winter he sold hay from a big haystack to the white people. We had many good neighbors. We helped them and they helped us, I can remember helping the white ladies can cherries and other food for the winter, Amos had a buggy with a lop which we drove to Ignacio on Saturdays to buy food and see the people. Sometimes today at the store, I see people I remember from those days, but they are old ladies now and I have forgotten their names, I remember the San Ignacio Fiesta many years ago. The Spanish people put up little stands to sell fruit and tortillas and there were foot races and horse races." "Amos and I had four children and adopted one. Ivy is the oldest, then Mildred, who died when she was a baby; Leona, who died of fever when she was 12; and Judy. Beverly was adopted. We sold my mother's allotment to the tribe and moved to town about 1956. Amos died 6 years ago. I always liked the Bear Dance and used to cook food for the feasts. With one hand stiff, I can't do my beadwork and I can't cook very easily, but I still like to go to the pow wow to listen and watch." Shelby Smith, taken in July, 1979. 48 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shelby Smith Interviews Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-NC/1.0/?language=en Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1973-1980 Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Collection of biographies, predominantly of residents from the Ignacio Senior Center, based on interviews conducted by Shelby Smith from approximately 1973 to 1980. The abridged interviews were originally published as individual entries in The Thoughtful Years newsletter, published by the Ignacio Senior Center, beginning in 1973. They were later published as a whole in Smith's book: Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley, from which the original scans in this collection have been derived. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Daisy House Eagle Biography Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1979-07 Subject The topic of the resource Eagle, Daisy House; Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest, Colorado Description An account of the resource Biography of Daisy House Eagle based on an interview conducted by Shelby Smith. Originally included in the July, 1979 issue of "The Thoughtful Years" newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center. Later included in the book "Oral Histories of the Southern Pine River Valley" by Shelby Smith. Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Eagle, Daisy House Extent The size or duration of the resource. 1 page Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby