Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 1, numbers 1 through 10

Page 238

INTERVIE\-J: Francisco Solario Page 4 FS: they stop there and have lunch, you know, and---and that 1 s the r.vay she made her living, while Grandpa---­and mother used to help her do that when she was about nine or eight years old, until she got married. And that's the way----Grandpa, I guess, he was one of those Indians, you know, didn't care about working very hard. FO: Were they resident in Michoacan ________ _ FS: No, no, they weren't, they were in a little town, little village they call El Salite. They call it El Salite----­that's where they used to get salt. And all the farmers from all around they used to come, you know, Indians coming from the mountains get some of this dirt, take it down to the cattle, you know, for their cattle, and that little town was all .goat town, and my mother said everybody owned goats, and that's how they made their living. They used to milk the goats and sell the cheese to all the people that----all size, from this size of cheese up to this big. That's where my mother was born, in fact, and it was only about, let me say, four miles from Ixtlan. FO: For heaven sakes. Very often people who are from Mexico identify themselves ah---as being ah--either Indian, Spanish or Mestizo, in a very rigorous sense of what