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own women coming back. Our own women and we have to look after them regardless of
all these things.

Fighting for the water, people don’t know about that. You know something that we take
for advantage. The white men would take that away from us. I know it but does the
reserve know it, no, I don’t think so. They are too busy trying to do other things, and
they’re trying to ignore it. What’s going to happen, when it’s just a little too late. They are
going to think we should have done something about it.

They have some ideas because my brother came up to me about it like a year ago. He said
brother I have these big containers sitting here. I said what are you going to do with
them. He said my plan is to start putting stuff away. In case there’s a disaster or
something. That is so everybody can just get prepared for it. Start some gardens and go
back to the old pumps. How do we know if it’s going to be like this for thousands of years.

You never know because it’ll be like pressing a button and it’ll be back to square one.
That’s when your old ways come back. If you don’t know your old ways you’ll just be
sitting on a rock. You won’t be able to know what to do. If you know your old ways, you
can at least go out hunting, or if you know how to plant. Further down the line it’s going
to help you.

There are a lot of unanswered questions that people just don’t want to hear. That’s where
you get into big arguments, like little groups here and there they just fight. There’s
nobody better than nobody. Everybody is right, you just have to get together as a group
because you are not going to get anywhere just by one person, it takes a group.

I hope to see them come together as a group to go forward. I guess a good example can
be, when a car gets stuck you are not going to get it out by yourself. You have to phone
your brothers, uncles and aunts. To tell them to help you push out your car. Well that is
the same as a problem. You have to work together to solve the problem. That is the way I
look at it.

Over the last two months I had the chance of going through Bessie Onespot tapes that
were taped by Diane and Jeannette’s stories. They were recorded of all the deeds that
Bullhead did. It’s very interesting what he did.

Bullhead, well my dad wasn’t too keen on things like that. He more less told me things to
deal with life. He had a certain way of expressing himself. When we were talking about
Bullhead, on my mom’s side they must have had some knowledge of him. The things that
he did. We never really discussed what he did. He was related to the Big Plumes. That’s
how he is related on the reserve.

Just lately I just heard about the things that Bullhead did to get where we are living now.
The things that he had to go through, politics wise, and how he dealt with the

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