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Show - 7- FO: Using horses? DL: Um hum. GT: Mules? DL: Yah, horses and mules, they broke it out and then they started- you know, at that time there was a lot of things going on and they used to have them ruins, you know, and them people used to make rocks out of an axe and make handle, just like them moccas. And they used to sell that to that trading post. And they ? potteries but there was all them arroxvheads you know and nobody knows what happened up in all that country, the smoking places and big rooms, you know, they still got a lot of things under the ground over there than I know of. FO: But you know where they are. DL: Um hum. FO: Did you go to school over there? DL: No, I went to school dox< ni to Tuba City. FO: Tuba City. And did your parents send you there or did the BIA take you? DL: Ah, you know, there was a government man in them Navajo place, they took us over there. Well, we have to go on horseback. No cars at that time and we had to have good horses or it takes- it took us two days to get down Tuba City. Then they leave us over there and bring the horses back and make them go for about four days round trip on horse. It's quite a ways, you know. About 87 or 86 miles from Navjo Mountain to the city. |