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addition to the main tent T many voices here we do have our exhibit tent as well as a planes TP and also our kill booat display out uh today we're going to have a special treat we're going to have what we call a panel discussion and it's titled memories of the old ones so without any further Ado we're going to go ahead and start our program no wi go ahead talk I used to be in the funication I was in the rang we a lot of we a lot of water we car my name is H I'm 87 years old dad keep that my mother was but she had a a grandmother that was half French and half home and and he was daughter granddaughter of Pier d a Frenchman who Liv in Su City and all around and he he helped SP that came I don't know how you Conn withou while kind of Rel I like to move my hands when I talk my mother my mother and dad got married they decided to be the resurrection and we left she took me and my brother and my sister we move to Ros first then to S City and my dad worked for henre crey over 7 years he played ball baseball board with and BR in W and for call it anyway he was first was to do that uh he was also a good ball player he played with Jim Thorp he roommates at car anyway from from Su move to Lawrence because they told my dad that if you stay here you getos working in cre so they moved oh he got a job applied for a job with a man named green green construction and he had a job of making a Tanger University stadi that we moved to law and we were there quite a while I finished do St KU and they start building one at has so we there about 5 years four five years and they we decided to go to Oklahoma and we lived in Oklahoma and I went to school at plus PL of Contin high and then they decid that I should go away to school and send me to ad that's how come to be a a presbyterian and a republican I married a girl from Texas from and she wasn't Indian but she became Indian and her father used to emphasize to me that he was English s and call people and um and I got married married 52 years I got I always in the service too been in the Army in 19 let's see 19 1938 I went to the service National car then I got out of school I graduated from L High School I decided I couldn't get a job anywhere they don't they don't hire Indi you know have a hard time so I understand black people hard time there so anyway I went came up here to see my aunt the Mir up here she had a missionary M van CLE D me m van C said she was D me to City she a missionary and she took me up there and I Jo I Tred get the Marine said 17 more PS on so I went to the Navy we take you for everybody Jo Navy went to the Army sign here I would send me air for because I was in high school I no I don't like to get any further from the ground on top of a horse I said I want to go to the cab and I accidentally they send me to L Cav mon California and I you don't know but Ronald rean was the second Lieutenant nobody paid attention but his wife used to come watch her he way name j w and I remember one Sunday dresses that s around flower big hat anyway years in I like too bad I think they said the last recogniz but before before that I had to make two long rides one long ride from Lake Marina near San Diego City down the the what it called what Campo yeah from Campo I can't think of it then later on we came back and and uh we just arve from montere to sand before they had a road and I was in machine gun squad and we had pack horses was always with radio anyway then we went up to C and El was there and we put on a that was nice the only thing that happened first around in a walk next and third G but don't we just got to mixing our r with the S it start raining and we couldn't hold little I came we came Circle and I saw well what we going to do we had a pack horse another guy named Alan he was on the other side of the pack horse how we going to stopway right in front a big Park and had we went into that and there's a big I thought they stop when the hor went right on over all horse Tri he went fighing on there so did the horse you know and we had our first Ser was a police ref refe he used to be a captain in the PO C we did everything about the number know way said let that guy go see that hor right oh I think all I like one day he came up to me he said you you want to go double dat with me I'm kind of guy want all right first go then I come after you blonded eyes you know anyway meet the girl over here and mon everybody been there B on the South Side Track used to be the Japanese used to Japanese we jaese no said we wonder more soon you quit the fight en but they nice that's all what Happ you cut good afternoon my name's Max Parker Nebraska and um I'm 66 years old and I'm full brother my father is par senior and my mother is Robinson wer I was uh raed here at Macy till 1950 we went to a reason why we left for because there was no jobs around here and a step father of M raised his name was hry Walker and um used to farm and W time we had hard time we didn't have no groceries my mother found a garden put him in sell for can used the can a lot and um I've going to mer church and I to I to sweats to ceremony and I also to First Church I've been baptized there 19 1981 at remember uh when I was a little girl I had a grandfather old man Charlie Parker new south of ma and I learned a whole lot from him by Church ways he told me about that D the staff everything that goes with it and told about uh ho tobacco and Cedar T and the PO and ropes and everything and U today I I heard a lot of things about that church and u i remember um um my folks had team they used to pick corn or Farmers nearby they used to take across a river he that River the river uh used to uh goer horses had horseshoe and they had a blacksmith here in Lacy this called horseshoe Andes and a lot of people lot of our people their food any well we went through a lot of uh hand games of call hand games as M activities the ga social gather sometimes I used to be anxious so I can get something to me we were number all times you know when we were small like you said you know doubt hard to get you like was lucky that we have good neighbors a lot people my dad corn up corn and all that oats anyway I started uh back today you I was kind of sorry I didn't get no education but I went as far as e8th grade and I got my GED when I come back to LA and I work for the ad Department I was in nursing home I work here and there my own care my own job today I'm not working I'm Social Security I start that my seniors Vol to work but anyway you I really enjoy my life today and um I I don't like to say this but I'm going to tell you I was recover alcoholic you know I went for treatment I went for help you know how many times I was in and out of treatment centers I've been so for8 years Happ me was ceremonies I go to sacrifice pray God for me church service and I out I have problem I can't sacrifice all night and I could sit up all night like I used to that's what kept me sober and anyway I'm really happy today I know what I'm saying I know what I'm doing you know money in myet like you know kind of dirty like everybody else like any that's said told come here and talk about myself that's what I'm doing anyway when I was in Omaha oh I have the drinking problem real bad every morning I wake up I look for the next dram but today I don't have to do that today you know I go to the right place something you know people are you know so I come my now you know I lost my mother my dad died you know young very young he didn't raise me but he still my father and him and my brother both are my brother went in service when he was really young there was no jobs you know get more job so he just went in service and he came back there's a lot of good things to say but you know I really enjoy around here I enjoy my people my own people I like their ways you know and sometimes people ask me if I go back to M or Omaha and work I said no I here this is I was born and sometimes you know uh sometimes you know I can old first thing I do is uh go to a church talk to the minister and visit talk about the Bible anyway I'm glad that they asked me to come here here here it's a good friend of mine you know him and I talked a lot about that one thing he asked me to right out that was the days I was drinking but anyway you know um I don't know what else all the things sa you know some good and some bad but you know I got talk about my li foret about the B here I remember uh um right here you see here we come Pi NE weeds NE weed we eat NE weed with soft pork or something bacon in that food food the black there we go get bluberries and rice berries and everything when we were small myom used candles and used be toes during the winter time with Fri bread that was all biscuit great anyway there now we can't even go and to get any gooseberries it's all fenced up just got keep B on there but I went in there one day anyway I was likeo anyway I went in there went way down and got myself some Blu and L back up that hill but now I don't think I could even go down there anymore I a come back up that hill we talk about that high I used to ride horses I used to go swimming I put um also some sports in Oma play volleyball basketball but not going to do that but anyway is my time up okay thank you I want to say hello to everyone can you hear me okay well my name is j and Robinson um my name is Robinson almost school and I got married at the age of 18 I had six children four boys and two girls uh my clan is uh F Clan Cas qu and that means uh the shoulders of the mle and turn the red blank right here that pertains to that and in our uh Clans ship there was we were not supposed to to not touch you know you're not touch and u had like the we didn't touch the when we build fire on the ground and there's charcoal we don't touch that either and then we don't touch uh that means some kind of red paint that they put on here the Indians old Indians we don't touch that either touching and then I had the Indian name give to me pertaining to Buffalo um my IND the name was uh that means looking for her own looking for her own little one t yes and uh I'm a subg of the regular seven fans from a subg off and then uh I used to have a old lady that stayed with my mother and her her name was Emily Star and her name was M the old lady taught me a lot she used to take me up on a hillside like that they got LS medicine indan medicine have seing po that she used to meet that's the only one I can remember she had some healing medicine that she used to use like s and uh she taught me a lot of things you in the old ways traditional ways she one day she told me she said come down sit down she never sits on chairs or anything like cut she used to sit on the floor in the blanket she told come and sit by her and she's talk to me about teaching and she told me not to um make anybody have a headache as I go along and grow up in life and I said what do you mean grandma what do you mean by that and she said what I mean is that she talk to me y she said what I mean by that is don't be trying to steal somebody else's husband straight J I always remember that then then another one too she said don't have no children without a man that's what she told me you so I always remember that know I got married I was all my KS then course I had a mother and a father my dad's name was Joe my mother's name was a Virginia K and my father used to a box in his young days and used to box box around just they parted and I was about one and a half so all I knew was I had a father and that was it you know but I talk him once in a while that's the way it was my life and in my time as I grew up I had to raise my kids and we didn't have no Panthers or we had these di as as the time went along and I just brought them up now they're way up to there in age you know they're like 57 57 and and I had I did some things that I thought I'm very proud of I was a EMT CHR in my working days and then I I had a part in a movie too uh we are one my we did and my daughter my son my granddaugh granddaughter my grandson we all have t in we all w i was con of that movie back in 1984 my husband died and since then it's been kind of hard and I had to get along by myself and pend for myself do the best as you can that's what that's what happened so time went by when I had an opportunity to be in that movie one and then I'm happy thankful to the Lord and I got I could give this long that be with my children I'm proud of my Heritage I'm over maybe sometimes I'm not no angel but you know try to live up and into that like my traditional ways I've got a lot of relatives here too you know all over and but say my name is I was born and on the reservation but during my younger days he was under my grandmother my dad's mother she sent us off to a Catholic School very young girls I couldn't even my shoes I even my hair my sister was just like my mother she sent us to Marty M school back 4S and when we come back from school I think we was there about 3 years then she sent us to another boarding school in northa we were young young could help us send us to all different kind of boarding but my sister he was old she got married at 18 so she had somebody to provide for her and I was alone so my grandmother sent me here and there but I didn't care my um family's name is my dad's name is Edward Kamp junor my mother's name was Virginia and my grand my on my father's side is my grandmother's name was and my dad's grandfather his name was Stephanie guar he come on this L and cl Expedition he got off and came into the tribe and married one married my grandmother my grandmother's mother and my grandmother's mother didn't have no English name my grandmother's Happ she's German French every time when they have this Indian P going on when they see the half s my grandmother would get out there and dance my grandmother was nice little old lady she was short and on my mother's side my grandparents and on my mother's side they took me when I was very small baby coming back from the hospital they took me and raised me I was about 3 years old and they turned me back to my parents very namess my grandfather name was J and my grandmother's name was um D Fe web my family there was just three of us my sister Ed and my brother J was he was younger than I and he died at 2 years old he had as I growing older at the age of 22 I got married first time I got married in Catholic church and then my husband died then I got married second time to RS walk I him was together America 31 years about 10 years ago he passed away I've been little since 10 um since 1994 I was after9 I had to work for myself I looked at casino that I up to the house center was house there and I was the house order to the casino been and after that I was old enough to get my Social Security so I'm eating my Social Security I live on safy I been around my own people I speak that was n high school kids a real n they can speak it the funny thing happen is they can speak it in the classroom real good but when they're out of school they don't speak they don't speak our language little kids are good to teach too but they learn they can't learn in 15 minutes we have to keep them 15 minutes and we go to another class to teach I keep telling our instructor I said I don't think kids can learn that fast they have to at least have a half a day to learn good just like the high kids now they have a a high school they have this traditional Don like they have hand and young boys they get up and sink they sound real nice when they see the SS because you can understand what they're saying and high school kids high school kids can s better than younger I go teaching class and instructor we have there was V St he was real nice person teach teaches us teachers what to say and we have to look up in a dictionary if we don't know what we're saying we have she teaches us how to look the inding words up anytime we want to find out about language some some of our Indian wordss are pretty hard you can't understand what you're saying so we tell light inv get up and then she tell us how say and she pronounces it follow and then you turn around and teach the high kids it's real sort of complicated when you're trying to teach somebody and you cannot understand yourself what say we we have to have an instructor beside us teaches us teach ask and I have one daughter and my sister edma she has eight daughter one boy but the boy di that's all I know I want to say thank you to uh my elders here my uncle and Max jine and Virginia this is our opportunity here and I want to say a thank thank you to the uh National Park Service and uh attend of many voices for giving us this because uh this has given us an opportunity to preserve the images and the uh voices of our own people so that we might our children will be able to identify it with them for many years to come that's what uh every day we're bringing some of our board like this to talk about their identity to talk about their youth the good memories and uh to talk about their relationships especially that their friendships and things like that so that when our children can look at these things and they can look at uh their grandmothers here and their grandpa they can identify and they'll they'll have something for many years to come so this is our opportunity for uh Maha people to do these types of things and to uh preserve our culture a little further and to preserve uh the people that uh live here among here on the reservation our grassroot people so I I really appreciate what the park service has done and I know my relatives they do too and uh a them La people I know that they appreciate what's going on here this is like I said our opportunity to preserve these things that our children can use in school we have a a lot of every day we're going to bring some more of our elders so that this can happen and uh some of some of of our drugs are going to be here to sing and they're going to uh explain the songs each each song is not just a a mixture of noises and whatever there's actual meanings to these there's there's prayers there's uh stories in these songs so uh that's part of our what we're doing today and I'm really grateful for that for that opportunity to be able to talk like this and to see our elders to listen to them because we need to preserve these things for our children 100 years from now they're going to be able to look at this and their identity is going to be impack so I'd like to say thank you like that to all of you I think we have some time for uh some questions and a couple minutes maybe one or two questions for uh my elders here um about anything what they talked about uh tuck the major he'll bring a microphone around to you I'm stand well if not um thank you on behalf of the Maha Nation behalf of my uncle Hollis cabler Maxine Parker jenevie Robinson and Virginia Walker thank you War whistle have you old word might notice that me me he made that that's when said we'd like to thank e e e