Interview · South Dakota · Lowell Amiotte · OSEU 4
Themes: Kinship & family, Values & generosity, Listening & observation
Learn About questions
In what way are relationships with friends and family important in life?
How do relationship with friends and family differ from one another?
How does losing a friend to death differ from losing a family member?
Lowell said, “Family is what you come to in the end,” what did he mean by that?
Learn From questions
Who would you list as your most important relationships in your family? What makes them important to you?
who would you list as your most important relationships in your group of friends? What makes them important to you?
In your family, what kinship terms (uncle, aunt, cousin, etc.) do you use? Does calling them by those names change your relationship to them?
Have you lost in important friend or family member? How did it affect you?
Transcripts
Family Is Always There - Lowell Amiotte - OSEU 4
Watch this interview on YouTubeVery important, you know, your relationships. I think at times we forget just how family, when you come right down to it, is going to be with you your whole life. You can have friends come and go and they're really good friends for this period and then they get a job and they're gone. And you exchange Christmas cards and it fades. But family is always there. And in the end, that's what you have to really rely on. And I'm getting older, so the older I get. And I got a letter yesterday. I had a friend die in Sioux Falls and now that's gone. That friendship is… gone. So I don't even know her family. They were all up in Saint Paul. So you lose those connections. Whereas right now I can still pick up the phone, call my uncles, my aunts, and as old as I am, I still have an uncle and aunts are living. So or, you know, I'll call and say, say to my cousin, come, let's have coffee and we'll go down and have a donut or something. And but family is very important because that's what you come to in the end is family.
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Learn ABOUT Learn FROM
(deep listening, information) (deep sharing, transformation)
1. In what way are relationships with 1. Who would you list as your most
friends and family important in life? important relationships in your family?
2. How do relationships with friends and What makes them important to you?
family differ from one another? 2. Who would you list as your most
3. How does losing a friend to death differ important relationships in your group of
from losing a family member? friends? What makes them important to
4. Lowell said, “Family is what you come to you?
in the end,” what did he mean by that? 3. In your family, what kinship terms
(uncle, aunt, cousin, etc.) do you use?
Does calling them by those names
change your relationship to them?
4. Have you lost an important friend or
_ family member? How did it affect you?
OSEU 4: INTERVIEW WITH LOWELL AMIOTTE
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Family Is Always There
Lowell Amiotte
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Family Is Always There
Family Is Always There - Lowell Amiotte - OSEU 4
Very important, you know, your relationships. I think at times we forget just how family,
when you come right down to it, is going to be with you your whole life. You can have
friends come and go and they're really good friends for this period and then they get a
job and they're gone. And you exchange Christmas cards and it fades. But family is
always there. And in the end, that's what you have to really rely on. And I'm getting
older, so the older I get. And I got a letter yesterday. I had a friend die in Sioux Falls and
now that's gone. That friendship is… gone. So I don't even know her family. They were
all up in Saint Paul. So you lose those connections. Whereas right now I can still pick up
the phone, call my uncles, my aunts, and as old as I am, I still have an uncle and aunts
are living. So or, you know, I'll call and say, say to my cousin, come, let's have coffee
and we'll go down and have a donut or something. And but family is very important
because that's what you come to in the end is family.