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Oral history interview with Nathan Benton

Title

Oral history interview with Nathan Benton

Subject

Indians of North America

Chilocco Indian Agricultural School

Indians of North America--Education

Off-reservation boarding schools

Boarding school students

Indians of North America--Wars--Veterans

Vocational education

Description

Nathan Benton (Choctaw), an instructor at Chilocco Indian Agricultural School 1956-1980, talks about his childhood and the various Indian schools he attended. He explains how he received an education in the use and maintenance of heavy equipment through his schooling and later in construction work. Benton discusses his time in the U.S. Army maintaining and repairing tanks. He describes how he became a teacher at Chilocco and some of the more important lessons he taught his students. Benton mentions a few specific people from his time at Chilocco and acknowledges how important the vocational education was for students there.

Format

video

Identifier

okso_sok_260

Interviewer

Little Thunder, Julie Pearson

Interviewee

Benton, Nathan, 1929-

OHMS Object

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Citation

“Oral history interview with Nathan Benton,” Chilocco History Project, accessed April 19, 2024, https://chilocco.library.okstate.edu/items/show/227.