Interview · North Dakota · Kevin Finley
Themes: Kinship & family
New transcript-based questions created with AI assistance using Scott Simpson’s Learn About and Learn From guide.
Learn About questions
1. How does Kevin Finley explain the family history of his Hidatsa name?
2. What connection does he describe between the name and an uncle who died in Vietnam?
3. What personal memory does he retain of that uncle?
Learn From questions
1. What does my name connect me to, and whose memories does it carry?
2. How does my family remember someone whose death is difficult to discuss?
3. What respectful question could help me learn more about a name or memory passed down to me?
Transcripts
03 Kevin Finley: How He Got His Name
Watch this interview on YouTubeI’m a member of the Hidatsa and my head odds are name is wolf grass and that was handed down from my dad’s brother Valeri and Finley and on that side on Blackhawk side that would be my dad’s mother there’s been that’s where that name came from it’s even farther back than him I looked in our tree and it’s way back there so a lot of those names sometimes come down you come down along through so I got that he was he was killed in Vietnam he was so his mom was a gold star mother she didn’t talk too much about it they didn’t make too much too much mention about it you know that her son was killed and there was a time he him and Myron Johnson of the wild respected Johnson family here for Bertha Lee he came home with him they both died over there about the same time and he came home with him but my dad and my dad’s mom and dad chose not to make you know too much of a too much about it so that’s where my name came from was him too oh my dad’s brother my uncle Aryan I remember seeing him just I barely remember him though but I remember him holding me I remember that
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