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While in high school, Parry began a process of recording her people's history in writing, an endeavor that had never been done by her people before and a process that has preserved her people's history for generations to come. She recorded her people's history as she had heard it told to her through
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and remained together for 68 years until her passing. Together, the couple would raise five children: two boys and three girls. At the time of her death, she would be a grandmother to sixteen, a great-grandmother to twenty-seven, and even have a great-great-granddaughter. One grandson, Darren Parry,
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have also been recognized. Parry used her beadwork as a way to pass on the traditions and legacy of her people and ensure that the rising generation could take part in the art that the
Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation had done for thousands of years, teaching her children as well as other
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February 22, 1986, Parry was recognized as the "Utah Honorary Mother of the Year" by the Utah Association of American Mothers. One decade later in 1996, she received the Utah
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greatly reducing their population and resulted in only a handful of casualties among the US soldiers. This event had previously only been publicly understood from the perspectives of the soldiers and settlers involved with the event; however, through Parry's advocacy, the name of the event was
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tribes they were originally taken from. In addition, she served on the Utah Indian
Cooperative Council, and there she worked to represent the interests of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation. As the storyteller and matriarch of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation, it was her
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responsibility to ensure that certain traditions and histories carried on. She was described as having a knack for winning people over, whether it be at a
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