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Show - 20- PD: somebody who's strong with strong arms to tan the buckskin, take the hairs off. O'N: I see. PD: My mother was-- I mean Grandma was kind of a small woman, thin woman and she used to tan buckskins too, and she Was kind of lively. O'N: Um hum. PD: And she x- yas real old x- yith a real x- yrinkled face but she was still going just like a young girl. She could walk for miles and miles and it was nothing to her, even in the hot sun or in the cold winters. O'N: When your parents x- yere children over there, the government opened a school over there. Did they ever go to that school? PD: I don't think so. My mother did but my father never x- yent to school. O'N: Now they also brought the Presbyterian church. Did they ever go to that Christian church over there? PD; They did and Catholic x- yas there too. And at the Indian School they used to come to the school but they never built church there. O'N: Yah. Did your parents belong to one of those churches? PD: My father was a Catholic but my mother just wanted to be on her way of living in it, you know, the great spirit. O'N: Um hum. And what was the word they used to say God or Great Spirit? PD: That's the word, Great Spirit. O'N: How do you say it in Ute? |