In 1935, while the country was deep in the depression, a group of Oneidas in Wisconsin took advantage of a federal writing program designed to employ Americans and offer economic relief. Many, who wrote in their own language, recorded their daily life on the farm to a federal infiltrator sent to drive people off the land to a devastating small pox epidemic.
Feed info for stations: NETA Sunday, February 17, 2008 (NOLA: ONSK 00K1)
For viewers: Please contact your local public television to find out when they will be scheduling this program.
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