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“I don’t have any Indian stories to tell you,” Truman Buff announced, when I spoke to him late in 1990 about an interview. Then eighty-four years old, Truman was an Owens Valley native and Paiute elder of the Fort Independence tribe. An accomplished musician, he had played in valley dance bands for over five decades, and after retiring in 1971 from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, he enjoyed studying Owens Valley history, was a frequent visitor at the local museum, and had been at work for several years compiling a Paiute-English dictionary.
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Notes
George Miles, “To Hear an Old Voice: Rediscovering Native Americans in American History” in Under An Open Sky: Rethinking Americas Western Past, William Cronon, George Miles, and Jay Gitlin, eds. (New York: W.W. Norton, 1992), 54.
Julian Steward, “Ethnography of the Owens Valley Paiute” (Berkeley: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 33, 1932–34), 321.
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Wehrey, J. (2006). Truman Buff (1906–1996). In: Voices from This Long Brown Land. Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-63573-3_4
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