Cache Valley Refugee Oral History Project collection

Cache Valley Refugee Oral History Project collection, 2015

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Fife Folklore Archives
Title: Cache Valley Refugee Oral History Project collection
Dates: 2015 (inclusive)
20152015
Quantity: 16 interviews , (41.4 GB)
Collection Number: UUS_FOLK COLL 58
Summary: Cache Valley, Utah is the home of Burmese Muslim, Karen, and Eritrean refugees. Documenting and preserving their stories is an important goal of Utah State University’s Fife Folklore Archives (FFA). In May 2015, USU’s FFA and Folklore Program, with help from the Karen community, hosted a Library of Congress Field School for Cultural Documentation: “Voices: Refugees in Cache Valley.” Field school students worked to document Cache Valley’s recent refugee communities. This collection, Folk Coll 58: Cache Valley Refugee Oral History Project, houses the physical recordings, release forms, and associated materials of the interviews which took place during this field school.
Repository: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives Division
Special Collections & Archives
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
Logan, UT
84322-3000
Telephone: 4357978248
Fax: 4357972880
scweb@usu.edu
Access Restrictions: No restrictions on use, except: not available through interlibrary loan.
Languages: English

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

In May 2015, USU’s Fife Folklore Archives and Folklore Program hosted “Voices: Refugees in Cache Valley,” a Library of Congress Field School for Cultural Documentation. This three week summer field school trained students to document and deposit the important stories of Burmese Muslim, Karen, and Eritrean refugees in the Fife Folklore Archives at Utah State University’s (USU) Special Collections and Archives which resulted in this collection, Folk Coll 58: Cache Valley Refugee Oral History Project.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

This collection contains the physical recordings and associated materials of the Cache Valley Refugee Oral History Project collection. A product of the 2015 Library of Congress Field School for Cultural Documentation: “Voices: Refugees in Cache Valley” made possible by Utah State University’s Fife Folklore Archive and Folklore Program, with help from the Karen community, and the Library of Congress.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.

Permission to publish material from the Cache Valley Refugee Oral History Project collection must be obtained from theCurator of the Fife Folklore Archives and/or the Special Collections Department Head.

Preferred Citation

Initial Citation: USU_Folk Coll 58: Cache Valley Refugee Oral History Project collection; Fife Folklore Archives, Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah.

Following Citations:USU_Folk Coll 58, USUSCA.

Alternative Forms Available

There is a digital collection with an Omeka digital exhibit.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

The materials are divided into three series: Digital Collections, Interview CDs, and Associated Materials.

Processing Note

Processed in April of 2015

Acquisition Information

Materials were provided by the Library of Congress Field School for Cultural Documentation.

Related Materials

Omeka digital exhibits are also available: Burmese Muslim Refugees in Cache Valley, Utah

Eritrean Refugees in Cache Valley, Utah

Karen Refugees in Cache Valley, Utah

Separated Materials

As all materials were born digital, the most robust portion of this collection is housed in the digital collection.

Custodial History

Release forms are kept in Folk Coll 58: Collection File.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series I: Burmese Muslim RefugeesReturn to Top

Description	Dates
Har Be Bar [Click to access]
Item 1: Har Be Bar wearing traditional Burmese shoes [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 2: Har Be Bar displays traditional Burmese shoe [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 3: Har Be Bar and Maung Maung putting on make up [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 4: Har Be Bar demonstrating the use of thanaka [Click to access]	2015-05-18
Item 5: Har Be Bar's little brother, Maung Maung with recordist (1 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 6: Har Be Bar and Maung Maung with thanaka [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 7: Har Be Bar watches Maung Maung apply thanaka to fieldworker [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 8: Har Be Bar's house and colorful poster of flowers and fruit from Burma [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 9: Har Be Bar's shoe rack [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 10: Har Be Bar's painting, 'The Lonely Rose' [Click to access]	2015 May 182015-05-18
Item 11: Har Be Bar's little brother, Maung Maung with recordist (2 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 12: Har Be Bar portrait [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 13: Har Be Bar interview audio [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 14: Har Be Bar interview transcript [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Ka Mar [Click to access]
Item 15: Ka Mar's family with Har Be Bar taking notes [Click to access]	2015 May 15
Item 16: Ka Mar with his wife Sa Da De and daughter Ma Se Ma (1 of 3) [Click to access]	2015 May 15
Item 17: Ka Mar holds his daughter Ma Se Ma as he poses with an award certificate [Click to access]	2015 May 15
Item 18: Ka Mar's mother, Kin Mar Cho's Burmese clothing patterns [Click to access]	2015 May 15
Item 19: Ka Mar's framed award certificate [Click to access]	2015 May 15
Item 20: Ka Mar's photograph of his grandparents [Click to access]	2015 May 15
Item 21: Ka Mar with his wife Sa Da De and daughter Ma Se Ma (2 of 3) [Click to access]	2015 May 15
Item 22: Ka Mar with his wife Sa Da De and daughter Ma Se Ma (3 of 3) [Click to access]	2015 May 15
Item 23: Ka Mar's daughter Ma Se Ma poses in front of her parents [Click to access]	2015 May 15
Item 24: Ka Mar and field workers during interview [Click to access]	2015 May 15
Item 25: Ka Mar's front room and a religious poster [Click to access]	2015 May 15
Item 26: Ka Mar's poster of Mecca [Click to access]	2015 May 15
Item 27: Ka Mar's front room with framed momentos (1 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 15
Item 28: Ka Mar's front room with framed momentos (2 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 15
Item 29: Ka Mar interview audio [Click to access]	2015 May 15
Item 30: Ka Mar interview transcript [Click to access]	2015 May 15
Ka Sin [Click to access]
Item 31: Ka Sin during his interview [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 32: Ka Sin and his children with the interviewers [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 33: Ka Sin's profile [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 34: Ka Sin's portrait (1 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 35: Ka Sin portrait (2 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 36: Ka Sin's interviewers packing away the equipment (1 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 37: Ka Sin's interviewers packing away the equipment (2 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 38: Ka Sin's front room [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 39: Ka Sin interview audio [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 40: Ka Sin interview transcript [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Kuang Lay [Click to access]
Item 41: Kaung Lay in his home (1 of 2 [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 42: Kaung Lay in his home (2 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 43: Kaung Lay and his family [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 44: Kaung Lay with his wife and granddaughter [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 45: Kaung Lay's son Sean and Har Be Bar [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 46: Kaung Lay's wife Khin Mar Cho holding a yellow dress [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 47: Kaung Lay's wife Khin Mar Cho holding a black and white dress [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 48: Kaung Lay's wife Khin Mar Cho holding a skirt she embroidered [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 49: Kaung Lay's wife Khin Mar Cho holding a pink and white blouse she sewed [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 50: Kaung Lay's wife Khin Mar Cho holding a black and white skirt [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 51: Kaung Lay's wife Khin Mar Cho holding a black and white blouse [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 52: Kaung Lay's photograph of his parents in Burma [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 53: Kaung Lay holding a picture of himself receiving an employee of the month certificate from JBS Miller meat processing employee [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 54: Kaung Lay's employee of the month certificate [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 55: Kaung Lay's house, poster of dress patterns which Khin Mar Cho sews [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 56: Kaung Lay interview audio [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 57: Kaung Lay interview transcript [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Sa Jan [Click to access]
No photographs available per Interviewees request
Item 58: Sa Jan interview audio [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 59: [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Ya He Ma [Click to access]
Item 60: Ya He Ma's dish stacking [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 61: Ya He Ma's poster wall (1 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 62: Ya He Ma's wall poster (2 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 63: Ya He Ma's family shoe rack [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 64: Ya He Ma's son Maung Maung's portrait (1 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 65: Ye He Ma's son Maung Maung's portrait (2 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 66: Ya He Ma's family portrait [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 67: Ya He Ma and Har Be Bar filling out paperwork [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 68: Ya He Ma interview audio [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 69: Ya He Ma interview transcript [Click to access]	2015 May 18

Series II: Eritrean Refugees Return to Top

Description	Dates
Afeworki Woldemichael [Click to access]
Item 70: Afeworki Woldemichael with field workers [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 71: Afeworki Woldemichael and Berhane Debesai Abraha (translator) [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 72: Afeworki Woldemichael looking over the letter of information [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 73: Afeworki Woldemichael listening to Berhane Debesai Abraha explain the letter of information [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 74: Afeworki Woldemichael's portrait [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 75: Afeworki Woldemichael signing the release form [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 76: Afeworki Woldemichael signing the release form with Berhane Debesai Abraha [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 77: Afeworki Woldemichael interview audio [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 78: Afeworki Woldemichael interview transcript [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Berhane Debasai Abraha [Click to access]
Item 79: Berhane Debesai Abraha holding the microphone while speaking during his interview (1 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 80: Berhane Debesai Abraha holding the microphone while speaking during his interview (2 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 81: Berhane Debesai Abraha signing the interview release form [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 82: Berhane Debesai Abraha with his interview group Hilary Warner Evans (right) and Magen Olsen (middle) [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 83: Berhane Debesai Abraha's interviewer Hilary Warner-Evens (1 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 84: Berhane Debesai Abraha's interviewer Hilary Warner-Evens (2 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 85: Berhane Debesai Abraha laughing during his interview [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 86: Berhane Debesai Abraha during his interview (1 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 87: Berhane Debesai Abraha during his interview (2 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 88: Berhane Debesai Abraha speaking during interview [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 89: Berhane Debesai Abraha and Magen Olsen at his interview [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 90: Berhane Debesai Abraha at his interview [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 91: Berhane Debesai interview audio [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Item 92: Berhane Debesai Abraha interview transcript [Click to access]	2015 May 17
Kathasay Berhe Gebremedhim [Click to access]
Item 93: Kahsay Berhe Gebremedhin's portrait (1 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 23
Item 94: Kahsay Berhe Gebremedhin's portrait (2 of 2 [Click to access]	2015 May 23
Item 95: Kahsay Berhe Gebremedhin and Berhane Debesai Abraha during the interview (1 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 23
Item 96: Kahsay Berhe Gebremedhin and Berhane Debesai Abraha during the interview (2 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 23
Item 97: Kahsay Berhe Gebremedhin listens to translator Berhane Debesai Abraha [Click to access]	2015 May 23
Item 98: Kahsay Berhe Gebremedhin giving an interview [Click to access]	2015 May 23
Item 99: Kahsay Berhe Gebremedhin with interviewer and translator [Click to access]	2015 May 23
Item 100: Kahsay Berhe Gebremedhin with fieldworkers and translator [Click to access]	2015 May 23
Item 101: Kahsay Berhe Gebremedhin with interview group [Click to access]	2015 May 23
Item 102: Kahsay Berhe Gebremedhin and Berhane Debesai Abraha with interviewer [Click to access]	2015 May 23
Item 103: Kahsay Berhe Gebremedhin signing the release form (1 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 23
Item 104: Kahsay Berhe Gebremedhin signing the release form (2 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 23
Item 105: Kahsay Gebremedhin interview audio [Click to access]	2015 May 23
Item 106: Kahsay Gebremedhin interview transcript [Click to access]	2015 May 23
Seltene Gebreselaise Gebretinsa [Click to access]
Item 107: Seltene Gebretinsa and Berhane Abraha reading interview forms [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 108: Seltene Gebretinsa and Hilary Warner-Evans preparing for interview [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 109: Seltene Gebretinsa listens to Berhane Abraha as he explains forms [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 110: Seltene Gebretinsa listens as Berhane Abraha translates [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 111: Seltene Gebretinsa listening for Hilary Warner-Evans' questions [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 112: Seltene Gebretinsa answering interview questions [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 113: Seltene Gebretinsa and Berhane Abraha listening to interviewer's question [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 114: Seltene Gebretinsa thinking about interviewer's question [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 115: Seltene Gebretinsa's portrait (1 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 116: Seltene Gebretinsa's portrait (2 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 117: Seltene Gebretinsa signing forms [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 118: Seltene Gebretinsa signs as Berhane Abraha explains forms [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 119: Seltene Gebretinsa's interviewer Hilary Warner-Evans signs forms [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 120: Seltene Gebretinsa and Berhane Abraha reading [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 121: Seltene Gebretinsa interview audio [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 122: Seltene Gebretinsa interview transcript [Click to access]	2015 May 16

Series III: Karen RefugeesReturn to Top

Description	Dates
Aye Win [Click to access]
Item 123: Aye Win with interviewers in her home [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 124: Aye Win and Chit Moe (1 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 125: Aye Win and Chit Moe (2 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 126: Aye Win with interviewers and translator [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 127: Aye Win after the interview [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 128: Aye Win with interviewers after the interview [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 129: Aye Win's living room wall with decorations [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 130: Aye Win (1 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 131: Aye Win (2 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 132: Aye Win's thanaka [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 133: Aye Win explaining thanaka [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 134: Aye Win's thanaka stone plate [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 135: Aye Win and thanaka [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 136: Aye Win interview audio [Click to access]	2015 May 19
Item 137: Aye Win interview transcript [Click to access]	2015 May 19
Eh Htoo [Click to access]
Item 138: Eh Htoo's response to interviewer's questions [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 139: Eh Htoo guestures while answering interviewer's questions [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 140: Eh Htoo and Chit Moe wait for the next interview question [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 141: Eh Htoo speaks while Wes Van der Water takes notes [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 142: Eh Htoo's Karen state flag at his home in Hyrum, Utah [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 143: Eh Htoo with Kyaw Eh's nephew and niece [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 144: Eh Htoo's portrait [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 145: Eh Htoo's dinner preparations at Kyaw Eh's house [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 146: Eh Htoo's household dinner schedule written in Burmese and Karen [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 147: Eh Htoo with dinner schedule written in Burmese [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 148: Eh Htoo stands near his flag of Karen State [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 149: Eh Htoo interview audio [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 150: Eh Htoo interview transcript [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Kyaw Eh [Click to access]
Item 151: Kyaw Eh's photograph of his uncle [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 152: Kyaw Eh's interview side shot [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 153: Kyaw Eh's portrait [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 154: Kyaw Eh's Karen state flag and pictures on the wall [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 155: Kyaw Eh in front of his living room wall (1 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 156: Kyaw Eh in front of living room wall (2 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 157: Kyaw Eh with fieldworkers [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 158: Kyaw Eh interview audio [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 159: Kyaw Eh interview transcript [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Pyo New [Click to access]
Item 160: Pyo Nwe's portrait (1 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 161: Pyo Nwe's portrait (2 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 162: Pyo Nwe during interview (1 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 163: Pyo Nwe during interview (2 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 164: Pyo Nwe, her baby Justin, and Chit Moe [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 165: Pyo Nwe and her baby Justin during interview (1 of 3) [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 166: Pyo Nwe and her baby Justin during interview (2 of 3) [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 167: Pyo Nwe and her baby Justin during interview (3 of 3) [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 168: Pyo Nwe and fieldworkers [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 169: Pyo Nwe, her baby Justin, Chit Moe and interviewer during interview [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 170: Pyo Nwe interview audio [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Item 171: Pyo Nwe interview transcript [Click to access]	2015 May 18
Snay Tun [Click to access]
Item 172: Snay Tun reviews papers with Wes Van der Water while Meagan Gill sets up audio equipment [Click to access]	2015 May 19
Item 173: Snay Tun's Burmese mat (close-up) [Click to access]	2015 May 19
Item 174: Snay Tun's Karen calendar with English translation [Click to access]	2015 May 19
Item 175: Snay Tun preparing for the interview [Click to access]	2015 May 19
Item 176: Snay Tun responds to questions from interviewers [Click to access]	2015 May 19
Item 177: Snay Tun waits for the next interview question [Click to access]	2015 May 19
Item 178: Snay Tun photograph of him at Bear Lake when he was about fifteen years old [Click to access]	2015 May 19
Item 179: Snay Tun's Burmese mat (closeup of flower) [Click to access]	2015 May 19
Item 180: Snay Tun's Karen state flag [Click to access]	2015 May 19
Item 181: Snay Tun shows Wes Van de Water a video of Sepak takraw [Click to access]	2015 May 19
Item 182: Snay Tun holding his Sepak takraw ball [Click to access]	2015 May 19
Item 183: Snay Tun holds a Sepak takraw ball [Click to access]	2015 May 19
Item 184: Snay Tun posing with Sepak takraw ball [Click to access]	2015 May 19
Item 185: Snay Tun's portrait [Click to access]	2015 May 19
Item 186: Snay Tun interview audio [Click to access]	2015 May 19
Item 187: Snay Tun interview transcript [Click to access]	2015 May 19
Tun Lay [Click to access]
Item 188: Tun Lay in a framed photo (1 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 189: Tun Lay in a framed photo (2 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 190: Tun Lay portrait (1 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 191: Tun Lay portrait (2 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 192: Tun Lay's food cover [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 193: Tun Lay with his guitar (1 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 194: Tun Lay with his guitar (2 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 195: Tun Lay's guitar [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 196: Tun Lay's floor rugs [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 197: Tun Lay and fieldworkers [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 198: Tun Lay and Chit Moe (1 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 199: Tun Lay and Chit Moe (2 of 2) [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 200: Tun Lay's Karen state flag [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 201: Tun Lay interview audio [Click to access]	2015 May 16
Item 202: Tun Lay interview transcript [Click to access]	2015 May 16

Physical MaterialsReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
1	1	2015 Field School Forms	2015
1	2	Project/Event Flyers	2015
1	3	/Publications	2015

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