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College Experiences with Dan Jerome

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Interview · North Dakota · Dan Jerome · NDNAEU 2 · NDNAEU 6 · NDNAEU 7

Themes: Language & revitalization, Education & learning

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Learn About questions

What is the population of Native students at my school? What tribal nations do the students come from?

Learn From questions

What teachers have encouraged me to do positive things in school? Do they encourage me to do positive things outside of school? What are some experiences I have where teachers might have discouraged me from pursuing something I enjoy? How did that affect me? Have I thought about plans after high school? Who can I talk to about that?

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College Experiences with Dan Jerome NDNAEU 2, 6, 7

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With that oh when I went to you and D oh I’m not sure which part yeah I’ve had some oh they were only three of us over it from here no there were three of us from the state of North Dakota there were only three Indians over at North Dakota one when I first went there back in 1950 and now you go over there’s about three four hundred though Indian students over there but it was it was different the scene being that you were a different species over there everybody would ask you well what are you know every day were we’re in you know matey you know well what’s a matey part European and part Indian descent and well wonder the first pitch have come in we call the Mitch of matey that’s the the butchering of the French language we say matey and moves hey Mitch if it’s for mateys but anyway they asked us oh when did the first Beatty come to being and would you say well let’s see when did Columbus come here 1492 of the response it well nine months later what’s that oh yeah ever since I started to major in accounting and my adviser says you just well switch this you’ll never get a job in accounting of what over this one any place so that I but at the same time I had a math teacher that told me say why don’t you major in math so that’s why I majored in mathematics and said still not knowing what I was gonna do even though I’ve been in the service and for four years before as I was not easy for me to make a decision of what I wanted to do yet in life but anyway everything turned out pretty good

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