Transcript of Alvina Alberts Interview, June 25, 1992

The first folder consists of Nixon's interview with Alvina Alberts, born September 20, 1912. The interview took place June 25, 1992, at her home in Fort Totten, North Dakota. Her specialty was Dakota folklore. She told the Dakota version of the Creation Story. In the Dakota version, people lived under the water, until one day a boy went along and happened to look up and saw a hole. He jumped and realized that it was a whirlpool. It grabbed him and threw him right up to the top and then he could not get down. Finally he swam until got to shore. His sister missed him, she then went out to look for him and the whirlpool got her. She swam to shore, then saw her brother's footprints and followed them. Alberts also summed up the origin of the Dakota, reporting that "they said that we came from the water, and a stone impregnated a woman, and from there we grew".