Fred Weaver interview by Winona La Duke, 1983 August 8
Abstract: Weaver was born in 1900 at Many Point Lake, Minnesota. He discusses how his father was part of the Leech Lake and Otter Tail Bands (Migizi Clan) and that his mother's allotment was sold. Weaver also discusses his brother's (Sandy and Albert) allotments, witnessing a "drunken sale," and how affidavits were used to legally declare Native Americans "half-breeds" in order to sell their land. He talks about the payments Native Americans received for their lands and describes how, after the lands were "sold," Native families often gathered together into Bureau of Indian Affairs towns. Weaver also identifies a picture of a medicine man who lived to 114 and discusses the assassination of the anti-allotment chief Bagonegiizhig (Hole in the Day).