My Story with Eugene Hale

My name is Eugene hail and some years back to chair my real name was Eugene Lawrence so I use both names what everybody knows when you buy hail and I grew up here at st.Michael’s I was born in Montana back in 49 and the mom back brought me back down here in this state here and my mom went to work got a job and so her grandma her gum was gonna raised me since I was a year old and she spoke there quote that to me all the time so yesterday at my first language and I went to school here in st.Michael’s back in Duluth 55 so on there and I had to I had to break a habit and my speaking Takuto 10 I could understand their English words but I would answer in Dakota and at the state for speech for two years the second grade the same year same year and then I finally broke to have but a third grade that’s where I start speaking English more with my friends and these to make fun of me and Isis that I was you know they say I stuff wait with them and you know because you’re making fun of me and they’re kind of bullied me and all that because at this price is a problem talking to Kota and now with my family a great grandma that’s my mom’s look she was when I raised me my mom’s grandma and she I this is what I usually do is tell the story of my family who originally came from and originally came from the Sun T is Santa Nebraska Santina braska that’s originally from then I talk about that story all the way to where the well firstly we went from across the river into the Yankton South Dakota and this is her story she told me she always tells me on this story over and over and I always keep that in my mind I remember that way and then she said we felt from the inktense he said there were the people there was running out of food so they toss to go north east from here from here he see from Yankton so they went there yeah there was a fort and the soldiers and people are given food out to get food and they give him a wagon horses and a tent and a circus either for a while and all of a sudden there was a lot of Rockets going on a lot of noise and all we hear gun fires and then so there was a mandate says get your stuff together and get out of here now God so they described the tent is unfolded I’m gonna turn back it away again what does was they had food they became in this direction from there and they came here and Fort Totten here and they’re here for a little while and aired the Calvary was coming after so they went to Montana for Tech and when they got there their stager Ben was turning around decided to ban maybe 50 to 60 people somewhere in that area and so they some stayed here and they went on to foot pack and they stayed there for a little bit near the Cowboys coming up close so they went north and some people stayed there the relatives and this is mostly relatives so they went into Canada Saskatchewan a place called Fort Qu’Appelle that’s really it ended up and now they’re there for a little while and they heard again some they are these people that did you know look at people and so they heard they came at us at the calpers come were so hot they want east and they stayed here in there kept me not the only time they move was at night the a wooded area for the nightmares I’ll take off and the end up and it’s called sue Valley Manitoba and now they’re there for low and then the Calvary caught up to them there and that’s one of the they told we’re not here to hurt you in any way we just want you to sign a treaty so those two chiefs and i got their pictures here and I got all these things did that uh that she was telling me about one of them was her grandpa and he’s the one that mean this was taken back and that D you know the story that she was telling me about this is the picture and yeah this one here my great-grandmother’s grandpa and this one here is my toss-up a black Baroness Madonna poppy strictest check on it and this is a black bear and this BIA man who took a picture together they did they send a 3d so that was back in eighteen hundreds somewhere in the late part eighteen hundred days apart and well they signed a treaty and then they told me she can come back with us into United States now and we will you’re free never know who’s gonna body did so they amongst him they said we’re not gonna go to stay here systems request awarded the real killer so the stayed there Sioux Valley and when that one that they took that picture they gave him a treaty gift and she said her grandpa’s on that pastor day talked to her to keep and there was his favorite you know this is that treaty gift that was given to them the years ago and that uh and then she uh she stayed there till she was a young lady she had two children there and her children stayed there she was a man here from here wanted to marry her he wanted to become in them days you know you don’t go out together like this for a while if we know each other or whatever they just did just if somebody asked for you and her family were saying he’s a good man he does all these did you do everything for him he’s been kind to you and your children so what at her grandparents hold her grandparents stayed with the kids so she he came up to sue Valley and so they met and did from there she came home here it was here then they got married here and then didn’t leave her in years her daughter Tina and my mom’s mother she came down and they his she stood you Maria the grandpa his name was Henry feather and I was forgotten see my great grandmother her name was Sarah Lawrence or and um she was married I came over that the person with her you know but she murdered this Fred Lawrence here and know when she came my grandma came down when she stayed with she stayed room for Walden my grandpa my mom’s dad to see he uh he was you know abusive towards even he got murdered he was abusive hey Turner and she had three kids actually four was the oldest one died and my mom and her sister named Olivia they went by Lawrence that but her husband my grandma’s husband adopted these two but the oldest one stayed with her dad her name was Jeanette and they were they went by feather but they got their name changed my mom and her sister the second one by Lawrence and I just found out not very long ago cuz I had to change my name to Lawrence I think I got my Bridget - yeah