Miss Walker discusses her early life and goes on to detail her time working as a teacher on Native American Reservations (particulary the Navajo and Sioux Reservations) in South Dakota. Aside from her teaching, she talks about conditions on the Reservations.

Mr. Miller discusses a Native American man named John Walker and an "Indian Marking" on a cliff near Red Wing, Minnesota, presumeably Barn Bluff. He mentiones the Chippewa, Ojibwe, and Cayuga tribes. Mr. Miller also discusses his time working with the highway.

Mr. John Davis, an 85 year-old Winnebago Indian, has lived nearly all his life in the LaCrosse, Wisconsin area. He discusses his life as a Winnebago and also gives a short history of the movements of his tribe, since the coming of the white man. At the conclusion of his interview, Mr. Davis sings a song in the Winnebago language.

Mrs. Davidson, from Balsam Lake, Minnesota, talks about the history of Balsam Lake. She discusses the post office, gristmill, Indian Village, the first school in Balsam Lake, the Tuttle Hotel, etc.

Mrs. Chappelle was born in Kinnickirurl.c Township, St. Croix Cowity,
in 1888. She moved to Washburn County in 1913, and lived there until
the time of her death in 1972. She was the area historian and a correspondent for the Rice Lake (Wisconsin) Chronotype for 29 years. The interview deals mainly with the lumber industry am the men who brought it to Washburn County. She includes infomation on the Onaha Railroad, the Knapp-Stout Lumber Company, and local lumber companies am area sawmills in her discussion. Mrs. Chappelle is the author of The Why of Names in Washburn County, am the taped interview is followed by thirty minute program in which Mrs. Chappelle discusses the writing of the book. The Why of Names in
Washburn Cowity is om file at the Area Research Center located on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.