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Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982
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Item Title
Indian Workers Stacking Hay
Author/Creator
Narrator: Smart, Stanley
Vennum, Thomas, Jr., interviewer.
Created/Published
July 27,1978
Notes
Stanley Smart, a Northern Paiute Indian, who worked on the 96 Ranch in the past, reminisces about crews of Indian workers stacking hay.
Stanley Smart is a Northern Paiute from the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation who worked on the Ninety-Six Ranch a few years ago. He worked on the hay derrick crew and shares his memories of hot working conditions and the stacker's job skills.
Stackers were the four to six men who arranged the hay on the top of the stack, one of whom was designated stack boss. On the Ninety-Six, the stackers were generally Indians, while the men operating machines or hand-loading hay onto the net were generally whites. Les says that the stackers were "more elite" and received higher pay. The job demanded more skill and there was a risk of injury from a fall.
Subject
Activities
Haying
Haying crews
Native Americans
Ninety-Six Ranch
Ethnography
Interviews
Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation
Object Type
Medium
Audio
Language
English
Call Number
NV8-TV-R11
Digital ID
afc96ran 004
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc96ran.004