When we were growing up we all played together, everybody was a big family, the village. In the evenings we would all go out in the field and play together. The girls would be playing against the old men and boys would be playing against the old ladies. And like that we all had fun evenings. We were always together, the whole village.

Some weekend one of the neighbors would say, “Come down, come over. We’ll have a get together.” Hiwašik jawina [let us dance], that means dancing. So we would all go and this family would get their drum out and dance. And the ladies would have lunch there for us. Then they would have races and, you know, stuff like that for us to do. And it would be over before it’s dark so we’ll have time to get home.