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I have some real nice traditional shirts that I wear. I got a hat that says native pride and
things like that but here it doesn’t matter. I use to dress in dark clothes for roofing, sure,
but that’s a different story. Everything is black on the roof. We started using torch on and
it has colors on it. We had gray, brown and green it was a little more important that we
got colors. I pick different colored rocks for my wife all different colors and we have them
in the west by our kitchen, we got a bunch of little rocks all different colors, you can get
unique rocks.

I have to believe in myself first God put us here for a reason and he gave me a reason to
come back from the coast. He told me my family and my way of life I have to teach, and
to be a guide for the future generation. I believe in today, I have to teach somebody
something, of what I know. The old ways and to modify it, to make it a better life for each
person. Teach them not to drink and things like that.

You have to pray away your anger and that’s what I do. I pray in our language. You know
Tsuut’ina to take away angry feelings towards somebody else. Sometimes somebody says
something wrong to you. What you do is put up like a shield and say I don’t want to hear
it. If you want to talk, talk or take it to someone else. Take your anger somewhere else.
That’s what I was taught. You got to work to get rid of anger and to pray and not judge
your fellow person.

You are not the judge, God is the judge. God is our Creator and our judge. I was taught
not to judge my fellow human beings. If they say something wrong just say it’s your way
not mine. Whatever it is do it your way and go ahead and do it your way because I’m not
doing it your way. I have to do things my way. When people try take their anger out on
me I tell them don’t take it out on me, I’m not your anger. Whoever your angry with go
be angry with them. You have to tell them your problem. That way you’ll enjoy your life.

You have to teach; even your friends teach them something small, very little, because gifts
come in words or whatever you’re given. You got to appreciate every little gift because
people today in this day and age don’t realize a gift can be a word. Like saying hi and
when you see a person walking with their head down or they look sad say how are you?
Things like that if, you know if someone is feeling down try cheer them up. When I see
some of my friends down I buy them coffee and talk to them. I do not give them money
for whatever they want to do with it.

Believe in the Creator. Every one of us is unique in our own ways. We’re all God’s children
and we have a purpose in life. Always be good to one another, I lost a sister and we were
bought up together and to this day I still miss her. Be good to another. Brothers and
sisters be good to one another.

In life to come you’ll never have that person with you. In the next life you will but today’s
people don’t realize these things. The purpose in life is to enjoy each and every day to the
fullest because yesterday is gone. Your purpose today is to enjoy today because tomorrow
may never come. Only God can make that decision in our lives each and every day.

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