Traditional Ways with Catherine Howard

You learn from storytelling like if you tell the story and then you’re um whatever they whatever the story is told from the elderly long time ago are the truth cuz I use that in my class I use myself as the you know whatever they talk about I was an alcoholic then I did this and I didn’t like it and look at how old 50 some years old I got my education you guys can do it you know it’s the truth the storytelling and the uh um how would you paow I dance at the I dance at poow I’m the I dance jingle dress in Golden Age you know and my son is a traditional dancer and he has a drum the drum is very sacred to us though and the circle of life into that drum way and the things that we learn from our ancestors is the truth you never learn it from the book I never learned anything from the book but I learn I teach the children from what my grandmother tells me what my mom told me what my dad told me you know and that’s the truth because the books never tell you the truth it comes from the your ancestors and your ways of life that they tell you that’s the life that we should be always with us sometimes when I go gambling I feel guilty because you know some of that money that you’re spending you could be doing something maybe by tobacco make tobacco TI for the Sund I was think about that you know and it is right what the ancestors tell us we should always follow her you know our you know I was tell that to the students many years ago when a man walks a woman never walks in front of that man that was so sacredly if a man walks and him and his wife walk they’ll he’ll walk ahead and his wife will walk ahead and when you when and we broke that so many times you know and like now I broke that too my when you drive with on a road well we never had uh when they had wagons the man would the son would uh like if you say your oldest son was driving you drive and you sit in the back you never sit by your son and when I think about when I travel with my boy I travel a lot with my boy he drives me all over I go po hour with him and I sit in the front seat I always tell him that hey I broke another one on my circle oh that’s long time I’m a go mom yesterday but you know you feel guilty when you see those things there is a lot of traditional ways that we have to learn that we already breaking you know