01 Demus McDonald: Introduction

Oh Takaya Dakota mature microrna homely a mock up a cautionary choke my head Joe Jack McCall I won’t talk to make every job Macondo homely so I’ll translate enough I was raised by gramma Mary Blackshear Akaka me and when I was born at this hospital here my mother brought me home and brought me to my grandma’s log house and she gave me to my grandma and said I want you to raise him because my mother was younger back then and she didn’t have time to raise a child I suppose but I was glad because after my grandma told me she gave me my first my Indian name and it’s called baka nominee Makai is dust or dirt or dust no home any means whirlwind so that means our dust whirlwind and when I was in my grandma’s old log house as a baby my grandma told me that it was somewhere I was born August 14th 1944 and I was long after that a dust whirlwind a little small one came to the door of the log off and it fell apart there so that’s what my grandma she said that came to see me so that’s why she named me dust whirlwind and let’s call him walk our nominee and if that happens for a little girl baby they call it wobbling and that means same thing with dust were wood but its name for a girl and a little boy babies were born the grandpa’s would come and they are the boy babies the grant the graph has come and they welcome to little their little boy baby and I’ve seen this when my young brother George was born 1950 he had to stay in hospital for a couple of months he was born in April he had a bad heart or something then when they finally brought him home the grandpa’s that year 1950 in spring and summer this they still went around in wagons and one by one of the grandpa’s came they come in the house grandma would give him tea or water and then the grandpa would go up to the little boy and he would shake his hand and he’ll say Oh Tina daya here little boy that’s good you came here shake his hand and they say okay today Tonto Karthikeya we chew here we choke on you know you are dicta that from this day forth you carry on the language the coat the language and tradition custom the culture and then do they pull it down they’re looking at its chest when they’re looking good the first grandpa look that grandma is a you okay rose he’s got some mission so later on another grandpa came in a team and he did the same thing is shipped a little boy’s hand the whole cleaner tire here dough the Pittock that are to Karthikeya we told you we chose organize our dicta so found that what i translated before then he looked at his chest to it he’s looked at grandma to the UK he’s got some then looked at it years and then his nose looking at his nose right here so after the second grandpa left I was kind nosy but interest conscious a token always exude walk up there how come they’re lookin I’m stretching it years as it so she said talk or chitchat I’m gonna tell you something see my grandma never spoke English she never spoke a word of English so listen she said when a little boy baby is born the grandpas come and welcome when a little girl baby is born the ground must come and welcome and there shake the hand and look at the chest the ears and the nose right here she said they look at it chest he said he’s got some and they meant the a scars on his chest from Sundance scars that he was born he was a like reincarnated he was a time the quarter from before and he had those Sundance cars so they gave him that Indian name the horn which hasha that means the wrong long time man he came back and she said when they’re looking at his ears if he was a woman before he would have whole earring holes and if he was a eagle before he would have those holes here but Eagles have won their beak so anyway that’s what they gave him that the quarter name are know it Joshua and as the years went by as he was growing up he used to do strange things that proved he was a grown go man when the evening in summer the elders were sitting in a shape telling them full stories and the ball went rolling buying the little boy come running that was a George he was the little boy he stopped it the grant the grandmas and grandpas were sitting in a sheath Oh how’s he getting a copy a hona hoga local they were sitting in the shade telling old stories and George looked at them and he started singing Indian really loud and he was dancing to his owns its own song so just when she said all know each other tiny each it all Archie that proves is a long go man because he’s dancing to his own song so that proved that he was reincarnated and another time the grandparents draw some grandpa they were coming down in a ditch by the road by sue manufacturing that was their den but this I’m just explaining and now Georgia looking is it here comes out kind of Dicky said gunner dick is coming cushy roses are sitting in the back and his team the wagon was Savannah a green thing in holding the Hat sides on it solid sides and they had rubber tires on it but they were coming close and he said let’s go right to the road will hop cauchy I said well how do you know I can’t see gooshie he said she’s a nurse she’s sitting in the back but of course so I went with him just to see so we got to the highway there and a ditch was the wagon roof so when they got close I’m gonna decode the teen stop the ground were always a big truck she got out for that why get she pulled out this these type of blanket that they put things in there then they’ll tire make a bottle then to carry so I asked Georgia said well how did you know that I didn’t see her how did you know I know that I’ve seen her he said so that another sign that he was a Hana with Tasha so that’s the story of reincarnation I guess what the certainly well I guess you would call it ceremony or what they did for babies back then the baby boys the grandpas came baby girls grant grandma’s cable and I never did see that after that I never seen it done to this day nobody does now then when I see a little baby boy I’ll do that then I’ll explain to her the mother that’s what they used to do in the past but it’s nobody cares I mean when I explained that to one young mother that oh that was it she didn’t want to know you know anything else it didn’t matter but testily the way I was raised the Indian Way