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AMH Enrollment with Charles Moran

Explore AMH Enrollment with Charles Moran with available transcripts, learning questions and source alignments in the South Dakota and North Dakota Elder archive.

Interview · North Dakota · Charles Moran · NDNAEU 5 · NDNAEU 7

Themes: Land & stewardship, Kinship & family, Identity & belonging, Arts & expression, Children & young people

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Learn About questions

Prior to the Indian Relocation Act, how many Arikara, Hidatsa and Mandan people live in North Dakota? How many enrolled members are in the AMH tribes today? Why are numbers used for enrollment? What does a “U” in the number mean? What outside influences are present in tribal communities today? How do those influences impact the identity of the people?

Learn From questions

Are there groups that I identify with outside of my family? What are they? How do groups I am a member of impact who I am and how I see the world? How would I be impacted if I was suddenly unable to connect to a group important to me?

Transcripts

NDNAEU 5 & 7 "AMH Enrollment" with Charles Moran

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Out of the like I said 25,000 30,000 to across the 50,000 hit odds of 15,000 man dance today we have probably about 14,000 enrolled members when I was born they gave me a number like a social security number and mine is a you in front of it unlocked it I don’t get that he was born with land and unlocked ‘add and in my number I only have a four-digit number at that time I was a 4,000 enrolled member today we’re at 14,000 so it’s in the fifty-two years has been in ten more thousand people enrolled here but to get all those kids and those people to understand who they are and who they represent it’s hard it’s hard to compete against outside influence internet cell phones [Music] Wi-Fi it’s hard yeah

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