Monica Mayer and Spencer Wilkinson, Jr.

“We were dirty, sweaty, sore muscles, crying. We must have been a sight to see.”

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Monica Mayer to her friend Spencer Wilkinson, Jr.

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Recorded in Fort Berthold, ND.

Monica Mayer and Spencer Wilkinson, Jr.

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North Dakota, ND, Fort Berthold, Ft. Berthold, Newtown, Mid-west, Midwesterners, Friendship, Fathers, Moms, Daughters, Children, Sisters, German-American, Indian, Native-American, 1960, 1960′s, seventh grade, eighth grade, Schools, Education, Girls, Grades, Working, Laboring, Morning, Night, Rocks, Lessons, learning, Parents, Parenting, Childhood, tough love, respect, homesteading, siblings, scared, scaring,

Dr MAYER:
My father, he was full blood German, and my mother was full blood Indian and you know it was pretty tough in the 60s growing up, you know half-breed, so to speak. And I must have been about 7th grade, 8th grade and I wasn

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