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Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982
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Item Title
Resident Indian Families on Ranches in the Early Days
Author/Creator
Narrator: Arriola, Martha
Gastañaga, Linda
Jones, Suzi, interviewers.
Created/Published
August 01,1978
Notes
Martha Arriola gives a description of Siwash, and his wife, Daisy, Native Americans who lived and worked on the 96 Ranch in the past.
Martha Arriola worked at the Ninety-Six as ranch cook from 1931 to 1938; her immigration and employment are described in audio selections <016> <018> <020>. In 1932, she married Wilhelmina Stock's nephew William Huck, and the couple moved to Reno in 1938. She was widowed in 1955 and married Raymond Arriola in 1957. He had also worked on the Ninety-Six and is part of the hay crew filmed elsewhere in the collection.
Les's recollections of Siwash and Daisy are much like Arriola's. He had always heard that many ranches had resident Indian families in the early days. Although a few Indian men might have been buckaroos, he said, many more were hired to clear land or build levees. Indian women generally performed domestic chores; Arriola's use of Daisy to help with the laundry is typical. The English word siwash is derived from French sauvage and was used as a pejorative for Indians in the West. Les does not know how Siwash came to have this name. Indian women figure in John E. Grotsch's account of Wilhelmina Stock's initiation as a ranch wife following her wedding in Germany in 1879:
The thing that frightened her the most was to see the Indians coming around the house and peeking through the windows. The fact was, they were curious to see what kind of woman Bill Stock had brought back for a wife. However, it was only a short time before she became fond of the natives, and since there was always a family or two camped around the ranch, Mrs. Stock employed the women about the house, doing washing, ironing, or other odd jobs. In this audio selection, Arriola alludes to the long silence that followed an Indian's arrival at one's door. Les relates the same custom.
Subject
Activities
Portraits
Native Americans
Women
Daisy
Siwash
Ethnography
Interviews
Martha Arriola Household
Reno, Nev.
Object Type
Medium
Audio
Language
English
Call Number
NV8-SJ-R21
Digital ID
afc96ran 002
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc96ran.002