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The first Catholic Church, it’s not too far from my house, they have a monument there. A
little monument, I don’t know if they cleaned the area, but the trees are growing over that

little monument. The Catholics don’t use a bell, only the Anglicans. Some wanted to go
through the Catholic way. Today it’s still liked that. People are against each other because
of the churches. No one goes to church anymore. Only some people are slowly starting to
go to church.

Shane my grandson he can speak Tsuut’ina but he’s shy, he said the other boys his age
make fun of him because he tries to talk Tsuut’ina to them. He’s good at it. He’s been
speaking it ever since he was small because he grew up with it. When I see him we talk

Tsuut’ina to each other. That’s the only way if we wake up and teach our young people.
I’m not the person to say, you do it this way, you do it that way. I’ve done it myself but I
can tell them. This is how it’s going to happen if we lose our language. There will be no
more Tsuut’ina. There will be only just a mixture of people. So that’s the only way I can
think about it.

My grandson he’s in the fire department and he phones me and I asked him where he was
and he said we’re going behind people with crosses on them. They were behind them he

said. They were protecting them just in case of a fire or an accident. We were told to
follow them.

So I guess they’re renewing the churches because one of our ladies became a minister. She
went through all her training. She phoned me and she said I’m going to have my first
church service on Sunday. Can you come? I told her I can’t go because I was going into
the hospital, getting ready for my tests. I said sorry, I made so many gestures of being
sorry. Then she said that’s all right. Today I don’t know how she’s making out. I think that

have church every Sunday. That’s the way it was before. In the bible it says you don’t have
to work on Sunday.

My son Harley was really into the Anglican Church. He started collecting money to build
a new church because our church, the way it is now, is pretty well gone. It’s so old.
Anyway, he wanted to build a new church but it didn’t happen.

The churches talk about being against each other, teaching people that the Anglican

Church is better than the Catholic Church. Even the children at school, my grandchildren
they go to that school. They said the children talk like at the schools. Their church is
better than ours. I told them straight, there’s only one God we pray to. One God that will
do things for you. Two religions is not going to do it, it’s your own self that will
accomplish what you want. Pray to God and ask for help and what you’re going to do.

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