How California Was Different with Edna Cavanaugh

Well I know for one thing when I first went to California I mean the being I was native they tottered was something else you know because where I worked there was really no natives working where there was a number of different groups that worked there and of course they were interested in the native what’s the difference you know but I don’t know I don’t know what the difference would be really is just that I was native and we I know I understood my like my dad and mom would speak the SU line which I understood it but when we started the boarding school real hot I lost a lot of that as before speaking where is my cousin the one that was ahead of me Darlene her family how was spoke Sioux so she can speak some of the Sioux language which I understand when they speak it but as far as I you just learn some fewer words now and then you know and I guess that’s what a lot of people were interested in learning the different language you know but I never was able to bring that to other people because you know we once you went to boarding school you lost you lost that part or at least I did maybe some were able to keep it you know but I wasn’t but it I don’t know I found it interesting when I was working in California a lot of different groups of people you meet you notice and yet everybody was able to get along you know that was one thing I brought that influenced me over there I brought to my attention you know they’re able to get along with everybody I guess because a lot of people came from all over you know go to California and of course I know a couple of times while we were living there some people come up to me start speaking in Mexican and they thought it’s Mexican and there wasn’t a soul my husband says it just how no sabe he’s originally from Alabama so he knew locked the world the way the Mexicans would speak in the understood some of her words so just tell no sabe is so that’s uh please say then try to explain where we came from sometimes they wouldn’t believe me you know that I wasn’t the could speak their language you know I guess just because of the skin color they that you should be able to learn know the language but which I didn’t