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| Eleanor Belmont | |
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| Leonard Gladstone | |
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|  Leonard Gladstone was born right here on the skway reserve. He was born on February/22/1931 He has eight sisters and four brothers. His sisters are Mable, Annie, Margaret, Clara, Mitsy, Eileen, Freda, and Maggie, and his brothers are Eddie (Sam), Robert, Louie and McArthur. His mother was Emma James and his father was Joseph Gladstone. He has three children Brian, Cliff, Cheryl and he adopted Jessie's children Margretty, Bonnie, Robert and Debbie. He has twenty- seven grandchildren. Ever since Leonard was a little boy he has been fishing along the Fraser River. When he was a young boy he had a job as a horse trainer. Leonard has travelled around Washington and Alaska State and Canada as a logger and a tree faller and he also had a job in California as a farm hand. His beliefs are the longhouse. He belongs to the longhouse, he is a longhouse dancer and he also belongs to the shakers. He knows a lot about herbs. He is a very spiritual man. Leonard has spent all his life living on the Skway reserve, which he and Benny James saved from being given to Squiala. | | |
| Jessie Gladstone | |
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|  Jessie was born in a small village in Alaska called Hindenburg about 90 miles north east of Ketchikan. She is the youngest of 7 children. Jessie has lived in Seattle, New Jersey and North Dakota before making her final move here to Chilliwack. Jessie has 6 children one is deceased, between her and her husband they have 9 children and 27 grandchildren and 17 great grand children. Jessie feels her greatest accomplishments are: her children; her grandkids; the fact that she quit drinking on her own 23 years ago and stayed sober even through all her hardship. Leonard has adopted her children they have lived here in Chilliwack 30(?) years. When they moved here they were the only ones on the reserve besides Ben James. Jessie has worked in the canneries as well as the head start program when is first started in Seattle, she also belonged to the American Indian woman's service league and worked as a secretary for them as well, and she has worked in nursing homes. Jessie belongs to the Shaker church as well as the longhouse and she is in the elder's group. Her and Leonard travel to pow wows as well as traveling with their daughter Debbie and grandkids to the canoe races. | | |
| Jennette (Sonia) James | |
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|  Sonia was born in Chilliwack BC. She was born on October -27-1938. She has lived in Washington most of her life. She was a waitress while she was growing up. She is working at the Nooksack tribal office now. She is a cook there. She cooked for the pre-school children for ten years. She has five children Angie (Angelita), Doe (Dominador), Narz (Narcisco), Tony and Rolland. She has twelve grandchildren. She has six brothers: Cisco, Mike, Bobbie, Joe, Bill and Dave and she has seven sisters: Helen, Ollie, Sonia, Sharon, Norma, Francine and Nancy. |
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| Frances Narte | |
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| Annie Narte was born right here on Skway reserve on February 02/1933. For her to make money she picked berries and sold fish. She lived on Skway until she moved to Seattle in 1952. She got a job as a waitress for a few years. Then she got a job at a fish canary for nine years. Then she worked at a labelling company. Annie can speak the native language. She knows how to knit and to make cedar baskets. She goes to the mountain to get the roots and the bark for her basket weaving. She knows a lot about herbs. She belongs to the longhouse and she is a longhouse dancer. Annie's parents are Emma James and Joseph Gladstone. Her brothers are Leonard, Louie, Eddie (Sam), Robert and McArthur. Her sisters are Mable, Margaret, Clara, Mitsy, Eileen, Freda, and Maggie. She has nine children Adelina, Jamie, Debbie, Phillip, Tony, Moreno, Catalina, Donte and Mario. And she has twenty grandchildren. |
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| Olive Oshiro | |
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|  Olive Oshiro was born on March 2, 1936 on the Skway reserve. Her mother was Elizabeth Eugenio. She lived with her grandparents Annie George and Andrew Mack James (Skrhelam). She then moved to Seattle, Washington and married Yobo Oshiro, they had five children; Sonny Boy, Roma, Matthew, Elizabeth and Edmund. She has eight grandchildren. She currently resides on the Nooksack reserve with her husband enjoying life with her children and grandchildren. | |
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