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Show INTERVIEW: Mabel Dry and Kay Fowler August 8, 1967 Page 28 give someland or did the government buy this or what? Do you know? What? Did the government buy this land then from these people? Yes, that's what they did I think. So after that they fence this place way around. That's how they got this place. F: Now is there water right here? Is there a spring right here at this place? D: No, this water is from that spring. It's piped down. F: Piped down? D: Piped down. They didn't have no spring around here; just up to that spring up there. F: Who piped it down here? D: Oh, the government. I don't know what that man was foreman for these-when they were working it. One Sioux Indian, Sioux Indian and his wife, was down here and he know that man used to be a foreman here who see them working it. His name, Jim Brown. Jim Brown? Yes, from Kanab but he's dead now. Now, he used to oversee the reservation or--. No, just the water. When they were working on thebipes. Oh, I see. Some white guys work on this reservoir, the middle one, from Fredonia. |