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Show INTERVIEW: Mabel Dry and Kay Fowler August 8, 1967 Page 27 land over this way.' And there was two men, two white men. And those Indians never talk, even when they say that they going to take you over to the San Juan. And the two white men was there with them and one of them said -said to that government man, 'We don't want out Indians to be treated like some kind of an animal. We don't like that. The Indians belong here and we don't like that.' He told them. And so that man got mad and he told the Indians, 'Now Indians, you don't have to talk. Let this white man talk.' He got mad. So them two men talked to him, tell him they don't like that the way he is saying. They don't want the Indians to be treated like horses or catties or something like that. 'The Indians belong here. It's their country.' He said-them two white man said. And this was, you know, Dee Wooley's. This place used to belong to Dee Wooley and that one over there used to belong to Ed Lamb. And this one over here, Pipe Valley used to be Alec Finley's. And this one from Two Mile this other part was Brig Riggs', that Riggs Flat. And that one over there, you know, by Six Mile. This part used to be-they call that Joe Chalerly. F: Joe Chalerly? D: Yes. Them people didn't like the way that government man was talking. They don't like it. So they let them stay on this - fix them in a reservation, these people, then. F: Oh, so all these people sort of got together and said-did they |
