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Show INTERVIEW: Mabel Dry and Kay Fowler August 8, 1967 Page 11 So what does that mean, then? Pine tree what? Pine tree hill. Pine tree hill. Did anybody ever say whether Major Powell could talk Paiute very well? D: The older people know that he can-they talk to him in Paiute- because they don't understand the white English, the Indians. They used to be one man up to Kanab. He used to talk really good Indian talk. F: Oh. D: But he's dead now. F: Who was this? D: That was Dave Pugh. F: Oh, Dave Pugh? D: Yes, he used to talk really good Indian language. F: Did many of the white people "learn the language, learn Paiute? D: Huh? F: Did very many white people learn your language? D: I guess some of 'um has. I don't know whether they died, died, the people that used to know the Indian language. I don't hear any of the young people talk it. F: How about your own grandchildren? Can they understand it pretty well? D: They understand but they won't talk it. They understand what you say in Indian but when we go to town we always tell 'um |
