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Interview with Gideon Nance 02/10/1984

1984.015 Creator Todd, Joe L. (Interviewer) Extent (quantity/size)  36 minutes Subjects Choctaw Indians / Freedmen / Mines and mining Descriptive Notes Gideon Nance was born in 1900. His grandfather, Elfred Eubanks, was a Choctaw Freedman. He was brought to Indian Territory as an enslaved person by the Choctaws. When he was freed, he was given 40 acres and a team of mules. Nance describes chores around the house, peanut and cotton farming, and school. He began working in the Rock Island Mine # 5 in 1917 for $5.29 per day. His first job was picking slate out of the mine. He discusses several aspects of mining, including the chain of command, mule driving in the mine, the size of mine rooms, loading and picking coal, and the air in the mines. Nance left the mine in 1929. He recounts why he quit mining. He was a farmer in the 1930s. He also worked with the WPA on road work, and worked at the Aldridge Hotel in McAlester.