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easy, and everything is getting so easy for everybody. It’s kind of getting ridiculous. Now
you don’t have to earn your money.

Now today I don’t think the young people today even know how to use a hammer or an
axe. They always got that frightening feeling of using an axe because they might cut their
feet. During our days, I used to use one hand to chop up the wood. We always had to
have wood and water every day.

My grandfather Anthony, he was a very kind hearted and a working person. He was a
person that traveled, and he never stayed home. He was a person that was always on the
go. He always rode on the trains. Where he went, I don’t know.

Two Guns, he had a lot to do with the old ways with the bundles and stuff. My mom told
me this one time, I don’t know which year it was, but it came to one year, that there were
Cree’s who came and captured Tsuut’ina women. The Tsuut’ina captured the Cree
women. What happened was that, the Cree women that were here in Tsuut’ina got
shipped back north and vise versa. The Crees shipped back the Tsuut’ina women.

My grandfather Two Guns hooked up with this woman. She was a Tsuut’ina but when she
was up north she was staying with this woman that knew how to work medicine. She got
the herbs and all that stuff. The story goes like this, Two Guns hooked up with this
woman. They stayed together and after a while he kind of didn’t like the idea. What I
mean by that is she used to make good medicine for people, and people used to come to
her. She was working both sides of the fence, like between good and bad. He didn’t like
what she was doing. I guess he found out what she really was. I don’t want to touch up on
it, but I know there’s more that happened. I’ll just leave it at that.

Two Guns, he looked after the bundles. Remember when I told you that he hooked up
with that woman he married. When Two Guns married that woman, she could help
people the good way and the bad way. Two Guns didn’t like that. This woman can either
heal you or put medicine on you. Either way, or he didn’t like it. So when that time came
he took the bundle out and he just hung it outside on the tree. He didn’t want any harm
to come to him. I think it was Jack Big Plume that came along and saw it. He thought Two
Guns didn’t want that bundle so he took it. He took it over to Joe Big Plume but it wasn’t
that, it was because of that woman.

He didn’t want it in the house with that woman. So after a while that woman kind of lost
it, and she had a big knife and she was stabbing the ground around herself. She got
committed and she got sent up to Ponoka. She passed away up there.

Her bundle, her medicine, Two Guns took it up to the foothills and buried it up there
with all that stuff she had. When she died in Ponoka, my granny Mable had a blue elk
dress that they sent it up there for her to by buried in. To put it on her for her to be
buried in. That dress was sent up but it was never put on, Two Guns wife. When she came

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