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Show • 15- GT: But part of your family had sheep- but your parents didn't? AD: No. GT: I see. What about- was your father pretty active as a hunter, did he go out hunting quite a bit? AD: I can't remember. GT: Don't remember having deer, venison or anything like that? AD: Yah, we used to but I don't think he did a lot of hunting, it was probably his brothers but I don't remember. JS: Anna Lee, when you said that to you it seems like a lot of the kids are losing their Ute language and you said that you think it would be neat if they could learn both, do you think that they are losing different things about their culture too, like the old stories and stuff? Do you think that that's going to be a bad effect upon them in their future, that they keep losing more and more of their culture? AD: Um hum. Like you should tell them something In our way and you try to tell them and they say, ' Oh, we don't believe that. You're superstitious.' GT: Is that right? AD: And I say, ' It's true, you know,' but they don't listen to me. JS: What do you think is the best way for us, like you as a parent, if you want your children to know this - to have them be taught certain things in the home but maybe certain things could be taught like in the school. You know, like- not the different Ute things that are sacred and stuff, but things like the culture to |