https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/1a97a0e1b116e1b26aee6d756c2ce611.pdf 9422d22247b8fb1d5c48a3bda82e713d PDF Text Text ROY WILLIAMS Roy Hancock Williams was born in a tepee in the Florida River valley near the present site of the La Plata Airport on August 8, 1889. His parents were Price Williams, a Southern Ute, and Marie Capote from the Northern Ute Tribe, "My parents kept sheep, horses and some cattle and moved around to find good pasture. We always came back to the Florida. The river bottom was a good place to raise potatoes and corn. The whole area had deer and other game. There was no better river than the Florida, It was clear and full of fish and turtles. While I was still young, my parents built a two-room frame house in the river bottom. We had good neighbors, Nicholas and Peter Eaton lived nearby. It was a very god life. No boundaries and no fences. We could go to the high mountains or to the valleys to find pasture or to hunt without anyone to tell us no." "When I was ten years old, my parents sent me to the boarding school at Ignacio, It was pretty bad there at first, I spoke only Ute, After a while I began to learn English from the other children. I liked the holidays when I could ride our horses and be free. In the summers I herded the sheep for my Dad, There was good hunting around the sheep camps, I shot my first doe when I was 16. Some of the bucks we got were so heavy we had to cut them up or carry them on a horse." "I don't go to pow-wows any more, but I liked them when I was young. The tribe used to put on a real show. There were different styles of dancing, more than now. The Bear Dance was always the first dance of the season. In the 192O's the Sun Dance was started here. I think it came from Oklahoma." "I went only to the 5th grade at the boarding school. When I quit, I enrolled at the country school at La Pasta for a while to learn Spanish." "In 1918 I was ready to enlist in the army to go to the war in France, but before I got in, the war ended so I traveled around working at different jobs for a while. In 1920 I got to visit my grandfather, James Capote, in Ft. Duchesne. He told me many things about the LIies, but I have forgotten most of it. My father died in 1921. Soon afterward, we built a house north of Ignacio. I worked at the Indian Agency for many years plowing and running the thrashing machine." Roy married Labrara Radea. They had one daughter, Mary Suazo. Later Roy married Mary Bean. Their children are Mary Santisteven, Vonnestine Herrera, and Eileen Weaver. Roy remembers seeing automobiles around Ignacio as early as 1913, but he never owned his own car until 1939 when he bought a Mercury. He says, "We had a good life after the second World War. I had a good job and also made money raising sheep and cattle. We owned seven different cars and did some traveling around," Mary died in 1961. The only one of Roy's brothers or sisters still living is Belle Cutthair, Recently Roy moved from his home north of Ignacio to one of the apartments at the Senior Center, He is now 79, His vision is fair and his hearing is excellent. He says, "I never thought I'd live this long, but here I am." Shelby Smith -- September, 1975 174 � 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 Roy Williams Biography Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1978-09 Subject The topic of the resource Williams, Roy; Ignacio, Colorado; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Biography of Roy Williams based on an interview conducted by Shelby Smith. Originally included in the September, 1978 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 Williams, Roy 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