Agnes Vanderburg

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Mary Agnes Vanderburg (* 1901 at Valley Creek ; † 1989 ) was an American Indian cultural mediator, translator and author . She was a member of the Salish Indians on the Flathead Reservation in the US state of Montana .

Life

Agnes Vanderburg was born in Valley Creek near Arlee .

In 1920 she married Jerome Stanislaus Vanderburg (1890–1974), with whom she had five children and ran a cattle farm south of Arlee.

After the death of her husband, she founded her " Culture Camp " in Valley Creek near Arlee in the mid-1970s . In the summer camp with tepees , tents and caravans, she taught traditional Indian techniques, cultural values ​​and stories as well as her Montana-Salish ( Séliš ) language. Other lay teachers and tribal elders joined her. The camp was visited by around 100 mostly young people each year.

Vanderburg's summer camp was open to Indians and non-Indians alike and was free of charge. She declined to limit participation to tribal members. She also refused to set up a groundwater well. There was also no electricity. The camp was not advertised, but was known far beyond the region in America.

Their tent camp was seen as a model for Indian culture and language education.

She worked with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation, founded in 1975, and participated in the production of several educational films and sound recordings. She also wrote books with traditional stories from her tribe. Her video Coming back slow about the importance of Indian language and culture preservation was only released in 1995 after her death.

In 1983 Vanderburg received the Montana Governor's Arts Award in the category Folk & Traditional Art (folklore and traditional art). The Smithsonian Institution also recognized her achievements.

The summer camp is now being offered as "Agnes Vanderburg Camp" by Salish Kootenai College in the Native American Studies course program.

literature

  • Agnes Vanderburg: Coming back slow: the importance of preserving Salish Indian culture and language . Salish Kootenai College Press, 1995
  • Agnes Vanderburg: Tales from the Bitterroot Valley: And Other Salish Folk Stories. Montana Indian Publications, 1971
  • Gretchen M. Bataille, Laurie Lisa: Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary . Routledge, 2003. ISBN 9781135955861 ( Google Books )
  • Barbara Springer Beck: Agnes Vanderburg: A Woman's Life in the Flathead Culture . University of Montana, 1982. ( online version )
  • Jennifer K Greene et al .: To be women and Salish: four portraits - Sack Woman, Lorena Burgess, Agnes Vanderburg, & Oshanee Kenmille . Salish Kootenai College, 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Gretchen M. Bataille, Laurie Lisa: Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary . Routledge, 2003. ISBN 9781135955861 ( preview on Google Books )
  2. ↑ WorldCat : Agnes Vanderburg
  3. ↑ Maggie Plummer: Chapter 19. Lucy Vanderberg. In: Passing it on: Voices from the Flathead Indian Reservation . University of Nebraska Press, 2008. ISBN 9781934594032 . Pages 131–136 ( preview on Google Books )
  4. ↑ a b Los Angeles Times : At Tribal Elder's Camp, Tradition Is Saved by Passing It On , September 17, 1987
  5. ↑ Barbara Springer Beck: Agnes Vanderburg: A Woman's Life in the Flathead Culture . University of Montana, 1982. ( online version )
  6. ^ Valley Journal: Culture camp passes on old ways , June 19, 2013
  7. ^ Anne Grob: Educational Empowerment of Native American Students: A Tribally Controlled College Leads the Way . In: 2009-Proceedings of the Eighth Native American Symposium . Southeastern Oklahoma State University, 2010
  8. ↑ GAA 2001: Previous Governor's Arts Award Recipients ( Memento from March 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
  9. ↑ Char Koosta News: The Spirit of Agnes Vanderburg lives on at Valley Creek ( Memento from April 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Vanderburg, Agnes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vanderburg, Mary Agnes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Indian cultural mediator, translator, and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH near Valley Creek (Jocko River)
DATE OF DEATH 1989