Introduction with Edna Cavanaugh

My maiden name was Edna Cavanaugh and my mom was dan Siegel Mable Dan Siegel was her name but my dad was the cabinet so and right now I my children are methey nice but I remarried in 88 then and now I’m McCaslin but he’s passed away years ago now so that’s in 96 so I’ve been more or less taking care of myself well I worked at SU manufacturing for well all my children were raised in California’s were in what is it nineteen six I graduated in 1959 from Stefan South Dakota was a boarding school there so that’s where I went my last two years and then from there I came home and then I sin I stayed with my brother it they had several small children so they asked if I can stay with them and help with I think there was little children all in a row you know about the year apart so I stayed with them and then while I was staying with him he said if you want to go to work later on and he says you can use my car so I found a job at the Mercy Hospital I think was a month after I stayed with them and so I used his car to go back and forth to work and stayed with him there for I don’t know maybe I stayed there a year I’m not certain in the meantime my older sister Rosalia bear at that time in her I think she went to California 1957 at that time they had relocation programs and so her and cousin both I guess I can’t remember if they flew if they went by train I don’t even remember but when they got to Los Angeles I guess someone was there to meet them and then they found him a place to live and that helped him find a job and then after that after that first month wants to work and they were on their own after that so I after I grade your graduating 59 then I think it was seven months I stayed with my brother then I went to work then she wrote a letter if you want to come up here to California you can get a job here or continue going to school well I stayed with them there a month in 1960 I think it was in May then I found a job then her husband is a truck driver so he said there’s a hospital will appear about two miles from where they live that they loaned me their car and I can go to work so that’s where I worked there for I think it was let me see 1960 until 1965 then I married there in California and 65 and then when the first child came along my husband said you should stop working now he said do you want to get you injured or anything like that working or you know lifting patients at that time so I quit then just raise the children till 78 I think and then my dad passed away and so I was told so I flew back home then and I had I knew a lady there said I take care of the children for two weeks and so she took care of so I stayed I came went for the funeral and then after that I think that I remembered now it was in April of 1960 it had to be no April no April 1978 when my dad passed away so I took all my children were born about that time then and my daughter was the youngest she was seven years old so anyway I came home for the funeral and then I stayed two weeks with my mom at the house and to keep her company or no title and so she I stayed two weeks and then I went back home and then before the end of the month my sister Ida called me and it says I would like to you to know if you want to come home and stay with mom and so I told my husband at the time I said well it’s up to you because we had moved to San Diego from San Ferdo we moved to San Diego for because there was heavy smog in San Ferdo and I think the oldest boy was I was catching coals and he think he thought that had something to do with it so he took off to San Diego and well he was fortunate to get a job at the San Diego Zoo as a caretaker so after he worked there a month then well we’ve he worked there I think we’ve married in 65 so he worked there till 78 that’s one of them then we decided that we’d come home and so he said if you want a week move back home so I said well it’s okay with you and at that time sue manufacturing had a plant there worse you can work I said as long as there’s a place we can work when we get there and there was so that’s when we returned home so after months he was able to get a job there as a care taker - so then I just stayed home with the kids for I think it was 2 or 3 months then I started to work there in this it had to be in yeah I can’t remember when I started work there 67 maybe no I’m getting my stories mixed up maybe 78 cuz we came back 70 had to be Navy’s so then of course the kids all grew up on the reservation and the only school at that time they mother was Fort Totten school here at the time and there was a work school but I but for some reason we sent them to Devil’s Lake you know school so then they were able to catch a bus then we live quite a ways off the road there and so did they bring my husband would bring him to the road if it was too cold and they can’t catch the bus and attended school there and that’s now I like I lost myself somewhere [Laughter]