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We just wanted to see if you could talk to us a little bit about how,

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how it was when you were growing up. You grew up in Elton?

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Ai.
Yes.

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And can you just tell us a little bit of how you grew up, and just anything that you can remember when you were small.

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Anap chachokiiboosiifookap, ammaama̱, antaatok stoklok hapkaskan,
My mom and my dad passed away when I was small,

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chalokaachot aatat chachoobatok om.
so I grew up without any parents.

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kaamiskan, kaamiik, maan naho̱ “Sobaihachilao̱,” kaahaafookok,
Then they would tell us, “Y’all need to learn,”

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mat- mat-hokotohnoofookon ischoba hatchaaliifa̱ ayakha̱ iisa miitok hatchaalin maafa̱
and send us to the house that stood near the church

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sobaihilik istilkahchoolik, school-ka hookahchoolik.
which they called the school.

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Kaamiskan, mon istilkatok mon thopohhiliik, 6th grade-koot ommo̱ onthaafookon,
That’s where we went and when we got to probably sixth grade,

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“Oolafon amaahaskaak, maafon istaskalaho̱,” kaahat, hookaafookon,
they would tell us, “Y’all will go to school in town from now on,”

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anap athiiyaliik maafookon.
and therefore I went.

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Kaamiik, aatat maafa̱ athiiyat high school-ka̱ oothat,
Then, I went there up to high school

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naho̱, school-ka ostanoolilit.
and finished school.

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Maamok, hasaikat amailkatik, alahkak faayaalin, alahkak,
A lot of us went, but some would quit

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maan nahot, kosnap skonahokkoschooliskat, atchiibahchoolik,
and since we weren’t rich, it was hard

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naho̱, holikfa ya̱hchoot, wilo ya̱hchoot, naason nahotilkalpiisak atchihban amailkahchoolik.
but we managed however we could with clothes and shoes.

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Kaamiskan, miitahak inkohchootootommo̱, katik
Therefore, maybe others didn’t have that problem but

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kosno family aththiiyaafaak
our family did,

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akkaamin sobbaililtooma̱hchok.
that I remember.

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Naho̱, akkaamin amailkahchootoskap, naho̱, hinaayap
That’s how it was back then but now

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school-kafa̱ amaakaak sobaayaalit amaakaak,
they are learning in school

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ho– kahnon amaakatikaap, faayalihchok ommihchok, kaahalihchok.
and they have a great opportunity but they are quitting.

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Kantik amatlawistap ohyak school-ka̱ stanoslok, iltolihna mook kanohchon
But all my children finished school and got good jobs,

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iltohnot, iltohnaahimok, inko̱ mok, intokihnotik,
and if they want to work or not,

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kahnon amaakan hiichaliik stachayoppahchok.
I see that they are doing good, and I am proud of them.

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Alahka mook, maan amalahkak iisak iltolihna mook ali̱i̱lon iisat, hinaayap,
Even my relatives and others have good jobs, and now

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office-kafa̱ iltohnooyaamii ma̱i̱look iksohchootooyaathan, hinaayap, akkaamiifoot iisat,
they have office jobs that we didn’t have before

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telephone-koot, sakchofa̱–hey!–hakchofa̱ slappaliichit naathiikat iisahchok.
with earphones attached to their crawfish–hey!–to their ears talking on the telephone.

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Kaamiskan, sachayoppahchok, kaami̱.
‎‎So I am very proud of that.

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immaayasin amaakat iisaap aalolihchok.
I hope they can do more.

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Did you have to walk far to school when you were little?

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Amiisafa̱ aththaliik, nahofa̱ ischoba hatchaaliifa̱,
I would go from my house to where the church is standing

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hinik thoppotliskan maafa̱ school bus-kak, naho, mook, stakothiiyaskan maafon, naho̱, ohtaathiihilkahchoolik.
because there was a road that passed by there where we would catch the bus.

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Hoppaakihchoolik.
It was kind of far.

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School bus was uh, was it a school bus or that, that wagon that they used to pull?

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Mine was school bus.

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My grand-, my father drove the wagon across the bayou, on this side of the bayou.

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He had all his grandchildren in there and if they misbehaved, he took care of it.