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Well speaking for the Catholic’s I know we did have a priest that came out every Sunday.
We were lucky because the church wasn’t too far from where we lived. Brian and me our
job was to supply the church with wood. They had a little wood stove in there and it
wasn’t really our job. It was just to help out. At that time there were a lot of families that
came to church. What I mean by whole families the husband, the wife and the children.
They were dressed up nicely, just like they were going to town, they had their Sunday best
on. We used to have Dick Big Plumes family, they were Catholics.

My granny Mable, late Saturday night, and early Sunday mornings she made a lot of
greasy bread, and it was just stacked up, and it was for Sunday. The reason she did was,
when you go to Catholic Church, everybody has to fast three hours before they take
communion. So most of the people didn’t eat Sunday mornings. Granny Mable knew that
because she knew those children are going to be hungry right when they come out of
Church.

Dick Big Plume’s children always used to come up to the house and visit, like Lucy,
Joanie, and the girls, Gail and Connie, and Vinnie was the only boy that came up. They
would come up by noon hour. When they came up my granny left, and she went to her
Anglican Church and they got to eat all the food that she made. We used to play outside
and stuff. Not only Dick Big Plume, there was Stanley Big Plume and his wife, Sam Simon
and his family, Narcisse Pipestem. It was a small church and it got pretty packed. There
was a little partition in the back were we used to sit there when the priest used to do the
confession. It was something wonderful.

The late 1960’s going to church started to die out. People going to church and stuff like
that. It started to go downhill. Today, you don’t see anybody, I mean there’s people that
still go to church. The only time you see people in church is when somebody passes away
or if somebody gets married. That’s the only time you see churches filled. Otherwise
there’s nothing and it makes you wonder how come people are not going to church
anymore.

Most of them turned back to the old ways. Like praying with the pipe, which is good. I
mean if you look at it from my point of view you go to the Anglican Church or Catholic. It
doesn’t matter because you’re praying to the same Guy. Its just that your doing it a
different way. They don’t see it like that, Catholic might see it as, it’s not the way. The
Catholic didn’t take time to go to a pipe ceremony and sit there and see what happens.
We pray to the same God and, vise versa. I think today as I’m sitting there the majority of
the people have gone back to the old ways. It’s not a victory of our culture, it’s just a
wakeup call. It was there before the Catholics and the Anglicans came.

So that fight and arguing continue, my God is better than your God. To me there’s just
one God. We pray to him, just in a different way. He’s the only person I can think of. If
you go to a Catholic Church you have to kneel down and sing hymns, and take
communion. Same thing with the Anglican. You get to drink some of the wine. When you

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