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1. Interview with Sumaya Yusuf and Bibi Abdalla
- Creator:
- Abdalla, Bibi
- Date Created:
- 2004-06-02
- Description:
- Sumaya Yusuf and Bibi Abdalla have both worked with the Minnesota Historical Society by conducting interviews for the Somali Skyline Tower Oral History Project. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Respect for parents and elders; how Somalis in the United States are losing their culture; uniqueness in Somali culture; the importance of poetry and songs; trying to maintain Somali language and traditions; Somali culture relating to African-American culture; Somalis and Americanization.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
2. Interview with M. J. Abhishaker
- Creator:
- Abhishaker, M. J.; United States
- Date Created:
- 1995-01-04
- Description:
- M. J. Abhishaker was born in India. He attended college in India and in Minnesota. Presently, he is a professor. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Family background, family values, education, college experiences, differences between American and Indian university structures, work experiences, political activities. Leaving India. Arriving in and adjusting to the United States, marriage and family, discrimination, travels in India and the U.S., changes in India. Sound of India radio show, Indian migration. Retaining and passing on cultural values, maintaining family ties.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
3. Interview with Abdisalam Adam
- Creator:
- Adam, Abdisalam
- Date Created:
- 2004-06-24
- Description:
- Abdisalam Adam grew up in Somalia, went to school in Nigeria, and came to the United States on a student visa. Adam worked for a magazine in Madison, Wisconsin, before coming to Minnesota. He has been married and raised a family since moving to Minnesota, and he currently works as an ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher. Subjects discussed include: Growing up in Somalia; attending school in Nigeria; living in Saudi Arabia; moving to the United States on a student visa; first impression of the United States; working for a magazine in Madison, Wisconsin; Somali communities in Minnesota; religious awareness of Minnesotans; Somali weddings; recently visiting Somalia and returning in the future; important aspects of Somali culture; maintaining Islamic and Somali culture in the United States; the role of families in Somali culture; influence of television; opportunities for Somali teens; working as an ESL teacher.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
4. Interview with Indru S. Advani
- Creator:
- Advani, Indru S.
- Date Created:
- 1994-06-12
- Description:
- Indru Advani was born in a part of India which is now in Pakistan. He attended school and college in India. He did graduate work in Minnesota. Presently, he is retired. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Experiences in India before emigrating, experiences in Kenya, marriage and family, caste system in India, travels to India, family visits, memories of arriving in New York City and Minneapolis, religion, Indo-American Association at the University of Minnesota, experiences singing, socializing in the Indian community, work history, retaining and passing on cultural values, maintaining family ties, future plans, American values of home and homestead.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
5. Interview with Ramona Advani
- Creator:
- Advani, Ramona
- Date Created:
- 1998-02-19
- Description:
- Ramona Advani was born in Minneapolis. Her parents came to the United States as graduate students. Advani attended high school and college in Minnesota, and law school in Washington, D.C. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Parents, familiarity with parents' language, religion, school experiences, Indian community in Minnesota, similarities and differences in Indian and American culture, college experiences, difficulties of being a child of a first-generation immigrant, self-acceptance, future plans, Indian movies.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
6. Interview with Rev. Dagoberto Aguilar
- Creator:
- Aguilar, Reverend Dagoberto
- Date Created:
- 1976-08-03
- Description:
- Born in Turialva, Costa Rica, in 1927 - studied and became a minister in Mexico City - worked as a missionary in Central America - received an assignment in Philadelphia, where he worked for several years - called to work in 1973 with Spanish-speaking people in Minneapolis, including some Mexican families. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: History of the Primera Iglesia Bautista in Minneapolis - religious and social activities and social services at the church - the need to maintain Spanish in that church - hopes of church members, including continued parishioner growth and construction of a church building of its own. COMMENTS ON INTERVIEW: In Spanish.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
7. Interview with Philip C. Ahn
- Creator:
- Ahn, Philip C.
- Date Created:
- 1979-12-07
- Description:
- Philip C. Ahn was born in Korea in 1928 to a family of third-generation Christians. His father owned a jewelry business, and his mother was a deaconess in the Presbyterian Church. When Korea was partitioned after World War II, Ahn's parents feared that the Communist government in North Korea would not look favorably on businessmen and Christians, and the family fled to South Korea. They arrived in Seoul at the height of postwar chaos and unemployment. At age 18, however, with five years of high school English, Ahn got a job as interpreter at the U.S. embassy. He also enrolled at a pharmacy school which later became part of the National University in Seoul, and he graduated with a bachelor of science degree in 1949. During this period a good friend, Young Pai, who was a student at Macalester College in St. Paul, urged Ahn to join him in Minnesota to continue his studies. Ahn was eager to do so and took the government examinations required for study abroad in 1949. He passed the examinations but did not have the necessary financial resources. With the onset of the Korean War and the arrival of United Nations troops, however, the demand for translators and interpreters increased, and from 1950 to 1951 Ahn worked as an interpreter for the U.S. Army's 17th Regiment. In 1951 he joined the Korean Army and served as a lieutenant in the liaison corps, where he was an interpreter for the Korean Military Advisory Group, a group of American advisors. In 1953, at the end of the war, Ahn left Korea and enrolled at Macalester College just as Young Pai was leaving. Ahn majored in biology and chemistry and graduated in 1957. He took a job in Austin, Minnesota, as a junior scientist at the Hormel Institute of the University of Minnesota Graduate School. While in Austin Ahn married Betty Engel, also a graduate of Macalester College. Ahn stayed in Austin from 1957 to 1960 and then became an assistant scientist at the U of M Medical School in Minneapolis, where he worked as a physiological chemist from 1960 to 1962, a period in which the basic analysis of nutrition and heart disease was being launched. In 1962 he transferred to the nutrition division of the Home Economics Department on the St. Paul campus, where he worked as a lipid chemist. In the early 1970s Ahn became an associate scientist in the newly established Department of Food Science and Nutrition of the College of Home Economics and College of Agriculture. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Ahn discusses his family background and early experience in Korea during the post-World War II and Korean War periods - the close-knit group of Korean students at Macalester during the 1950s - interracial marriages - difficulties of childrearing in American society - Korean wives of American servicemen who have settled in Minnesota - and the history of the Korean churches in the Twin Cities area. Ahn provides valuable information on the early Korean students at Macalester College during the 1950s, who were the first significant group of Koreans to arrive in the state, many of whom remained as permanent residents. He also contributes useful insight into the acculturation of those who intermarried.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
8. Interview with Simi Ahuja
- Creator:
- Ahuja, Simi
- Date Created:
- 1998-04-10
- Description:
- Simi Ahuja was born in Pennsylvania, but grew up in Minnesota. She graduated from college in Minnesota and works in health care administration. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Parents, familiarity with parents' language, involvement in a women's group of second-generation children - family values - Indian community connections - spiritual life - self-acceptance, holiday celebrations - family trips to India - university experiences - future plans, advantages and challenges of being a second-generation child - struggle to balance cultural and familial expectations.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
9. Interview with Victorino Alojado Sr.
- Creator:
- Alojado, Victorino
- Date Created:
- 2011-01-28
- Description:
- Victorino Alojado Sr. was born in Zamboanga City, Philippines. Shortly before the Japanese invaded the Philippines Victorino married and started a family. They hid in the mountains during the Japanese occupation. He moved the family to Minnesota in 1976 to escape martial law in the Philippines. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Growing up in Zamboanga - family - Sipa, a Filipino game - school - World War II - Victorino's wife and children - becoming an American citizen - the American dream.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
10. Interview with Maria A. Alvarado (Sister Engracia)
- Creator:
- Alvarado, Maria Antonia
- Date Created:
- 1976-08-08
- Description:
- Sister Engracia was born in Mexico in 1947 and assigned to St. Mary's College in Winona in 1966. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Her childhood in Mexico - her three years of religious training - her apostolate in the United States, mostly in Minnesota as a Lasallian Sister of Guadalupe. COMMENTS ON INTERVIEW: In Spanish.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
11. Interview with Stella Alvo
- Creator:
- Alvo, Stella
- Date Created:
- 1975-07-24
- Description:
- The main interest of this interview was Ms. Alvo's organization of Mi Cultura, a bilingual and bicultural day care center for children in St. Paul. Subjects discussed include: Mi Cultura Day Care Center - the human resources to be found in St. Paul's West Side community.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
12. Interview with Anna Amaya
- Creator:
- Amaya, Anna
- Date Created:
- 2010-01-10
- Description:
- Anna Amaya was born in Moorhead, Minnesota. Through the Youth Exchange and Study she earned her GED and attended Moorhead State for two years. She married in Moorhead and raised four children. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Education - family background - Latino community - organizations - personal relationships - racism - bilingual in Spanish and English - church - farm work - lack of diversity - domestic struggles - financial struggles - Latino culture and tradition - La Virgen de Guadalupe - quincea
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
13. Interview with Joseph E. Anaya
- Creator:
- Anaya, Joseph E.
- Date Created:
- 1975-07-25
- Description:
- Anaya was born in New Mexico in 1927 and moved to St. Paul with his family in 1939. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: His role in organizing the St. Paul chapter of the American G.I. Forum - and his work with Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish Credit Union, with Brown and Bigelow, and since 1973 with the Metropolitan Economic Development Association, a private organization providing services to minority businesses.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
14. Interview with Fred G. Anderson
- Creator:
- Anderson, Fred G.
- Date Created:
- 1988-04-21
- Description:
- Fred Anderson was born in 1907 in Sweden. He came to the United States in 1926. He initially worked as a painter of homes and churches, specializing in stencil work and marbling technique. In 1948 he opened his own wallpaper and paint store in St. Louis Park.
- Contributing Institution:
- American Swedish Institute
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
15. Interview with Hilding Anderson
- Creator:
- Anderson, Hilding
- Date Created:
- 1989-04-06
- Description:
- Hilding Anderson was born in 1905 in Sundsvall, Sweden. Working as a farmer in Sweden, he came to Fergus Falls, Minnesota, in 1926 with the help of his mother's cousin. He worked for 40 years at Ohleen Dairy until he retired, serving for 27 years as a milkman along Lake Street.
- Contributing Institution:
- American Swedish Institute
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
16. Interview with Iver Anderson
- Creator:
- Anderson, Iver
- Date Created:
- 1999-08-19
- Description:
- Beginning in 1998, the City of Duluth (Minn.) Sister Cities Commission collaborated with the Iron Range Research Center to record a series of oral history interviews. Independent scholar Dr. JoAnn Hanson-Stone acted as the lead interviewer. The voluntary, self-selecting participants were second-generation Swedish Americans whose parents settled in northeast Minnesota in the early 1900s. The interviews were initiated to create supplementary material for a planned exhibit, "A Long Way Home: Swedish Immigrant Life in Duluth and Northeast Minnesota, 1890-1940."
- Contributing Institution:
- Iron Range Research Center
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
17. Interview with Oy Huie Anderson
- Creator:
- Anderson, Oy Huie
- Date Created:
- 2003-02-23
- Description:
- Oy Huie Anderson was born in Minnesota. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Family - childhood - Chinese community in Minneapolis in 1930s - Westminster Presbyterian Chinese Sunday School.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
18. Interview with Belen Andrada
- Creator:
- Andrada, Belen S.
- Date Created:
- 2010-12-01
- Description:
- Belen Andrada was born in Butuan, in the southern Philippines. After World War II, Belen finished college with a bachelor's degree in math from Santo Tomas in Manila. She came to the U.S. as a master's degree student at the University of Chicago. After marrying she moved to Minnesota and worked in area high schools. She continues to be active in the Filipino community. Subjects discussed include: parents, growing up, World War II, Japanese occupation of the Philippines, college, immigrating, the Filipino community in the 1950s in Minnesota, and the Filipino since the 1950.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
19. Interview with Belen S. Andrada
- Creator:
- Andrada, Belen S.
- Date Created:
- 1978-10-20
- Description:
- Belen S. Andrada was born in the Philippines in 1926 and came to the United States in 1956 to continue her studies. In 1957 she married Benigno Andrada in Minnesota. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Her family in the Philippines - the importance of her family - her reasons for coming to the United States - her reactions to living in Minnesota - and prejudice against her as a Filipino.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
20. Interview with Benigno Andrada
- Creator:
- Andrada, Benigno
- Date Created:
- 1978-10-09 - 1978-11-01
- Description:
- Benigno Andrada came to Minnesota from the Philippines in 1928 at the age of 16. His first job was as a waiter at the Minneapolis Athletic Club. In 1930 he married a Norwegian-American woman, and they had three sons. His wife died in 1956, and in 1957 he married his second wife, Belen, a Filipino woman. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: In the first interview, Mr. Andrada discusses his adjustment to life in Minnesota, his family, his jobs and the Filipino community in the Twin Cities. In the second interview he tells about the Philippine Echo newspaper, work during the depression and World War II, Filipinos who worked on the farms near Albert Lea and Chaska, Minnesota and his return trip to the Philippines in 1966.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
21. Interview with Cristeta Andrada
- Creator:
- Andrada, Christeta
- Date Created:
- 1978-10-20
- Description:
- Cristeta Andrada, a daughter of Benigno and Belen Andrada of Richfield, Minnesota, was born in 1964. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Growing up as a second-generation Filipino - the importance of family and the Filipino community in the Twin Cities - and discrimination. COMMENTS ON INTERVIEW: Andrada's sister Marietta was also interviewed for this oral history project.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
22. Interview with Marietta Andrada
- Creator:
- Andrada, Marietta
- Date Created:
- 1978-11-01
- Description:
- Marietta Andrada, a daughter of Benigno and Belen Andrada of Richfield, Minnesota, was born in 1958. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Growing up as a second-generation Filipino - the importance of family and the Filipino community in the Twin Cities - and discrimination. COMMENTS ON INTERVIEW: Andrada's sister Cristeta was also interviewed for this oral history project.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
23. Interview with Virgil Andrada
- Creator:
- Andrada, Virgil
- Date Created:
- 1979-02-01
- Description:
- Virgil Andrada was born in Minnesota in 1933, the son of Benigno and Thina Andrada. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Mr. Andrada's father is Filipino and his mother is Norwegian. He discusses growing up in the Twin Cities with the influence of the two cultures, his family and discrimination against the Filipinos.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
24. Interview with Carlotta F. Arellano
- Creator:
- Arellano, Carlotta Felix
- Date Created:
- 1975-07-30
- Description:
- Carlotta Felix Arellano was born in 1905 in Las Petacas, in the state of Zacatecas, Mexico. Her father's name was Juan Francisco Felix, and her mother was Josefa Ramos de Felix. The family immigrated to the United States in 1920, crossing the border by train to El Paso, Texas. She arrived in Arlington, Minn., in 1932 and was living in St. Paul at the time of the interview. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: The Mexican Revolution, including several personal experiences - working in farm fields in Wisconsin and Arlington and Gaylord, Minn. - and St. Paul's West Side community, including her early years here and organizations to which she belonged. COMMENTS ON INTERVIEW: The interview was done in Spanish and transcribed into English. Most of the tape is slow.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories
25. Interview with Maria Argueta
- Creator:
- Argueta, Maria; United States
- Date Created:
- 2/23/2013
- Description:
- Maria Argueta was born in 1989 in Santa Tecla, El Salvador. She moved to Los Angeles at the age of five before later moving to Minnesota. At the time of the interview Argueta resided in Crookston, Minnesota. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Family - Salvadoran community - ESL education - Salvadoran food, culture, and identity - Latino cultural retention.
- Contributing Institution:
- Minnesota Historical Society
- Type:
- Sound Recording Nonmusical
- Format:
- Oral histories