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Show • 19- DL: No, they x%? as m o s t l y w h i t e men. But the Mormons they were up h e r e . GT: Up h e r e? DL: Yah, they ' re up to Blanding. FO: No Mormon missionaries over there at that time. DL: No, nothing like that. Just the Navajo camps but mostly there was Paiutes and that trading post there. FO: When people got sick over there, did they use the Paiute Medicinemen? DL: Yah. They had Navajos, you know. FO: Navajos too? DL: Navajos and Paiutes, but they know how to cure them. I remember when the depression came, we had a lot of Paiute women. They died out. Got too sick and couldn't do nothing. And I was riding my horse around to check that but then we had to just try to take care of the body, you know, we just go up and dig a hold for a grave, you know. At that time they had nothing, you knoxtf, just kind of wrap them in a blanket just to keep the body, you know, they had a wake. I still remember what they done with them when they die, you know. FO: Did they put plants and herbs on the body or did they just wrap them up. DL: They just wrap them up and dig hole and just put them in. FO: Did they put them laying out flat or with the knees brought up. |