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which is not right as I understand. I think we need to do something with all the drinking
that is going on, it’s getting out of control. When I first came here it was mostly on

weekends I use to see people getting drunk. Now it’s during the week and it’s not good. It
doesn’t make the nation look good because white people have already branded us. They
brand us as drinkers. So I don’t like that and I don’t like seeing it.

They still need to know what’s in the word of God. All the teachings. It was in visions. I
don’t know if you know Granny she might have told you. It was a vision way back before
the treaties were signed. I mean after the treaties were signed they moved here and it was
that year 1883. They said within this tribe, this Tsuut’ina, Sarcee tribe. There was a man

that was able to see visions.

He told the Sarcee people that there’s a man coming with a long coat and he has a big
book. The big book had to be the bible. You listen to him. It will be good for our tribe. I
guess he told them that. He also said you people are going to be living in matchsticks.
Now we live in match sticks. The houses are all lumber, those are the matchsticks. I guess
that was what he told them. So when the missionaries came the people were very keenly
interested because of what that man told them. He was from here, Granny doesn’t know

his name.

The Grandfather Dick Starlight Sr. is the one that told the old lady. The old lady that he
told the story was Katie. I don’t know maybe your mom knows about it. I told Randy to
record it on tape, what she was saying. This was ten to fifteen years ago. Now she forgets.

They need to be taught, that’s very important, like I said that man was not educated, and
he had visions like a prophet visualize. It is a true story. I don’t think he was psychic, I

think it’s more that he see’s visions. A prophet, a better word is prophet. She didn’t say
who he was but he was from this tribe, and that was before the missionaries came. That
was before Christianity came. When they were by Blackfoot’s. It’s just one though, and
there was only one medicine pipe holder whatever they called him that was Freddy’s
grandfather. He put it away. He gave it up. He burnt everything. He wanted to go to the
Christian way.

Katie told the story to Harley and Ronald when they first started working the museum.

They didn’t tell the exact true stories and she was upset about that. It’s still that way, it’s
not corrected. So she doesn’t like being interviewed because they don’t write down what
she says. I would like to see transcribing properly being taught. It’s has to be that way.

We used to say Sarcee. They signed treaty at Siksika, Blackfoot Crossing, I think the
Blackfoot’s call them Saksii I don’t know what it means in Blackfoot. So that’s how they

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