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Transcription: [00:23:50]
[[question being asked, inaudible]]
Hearing about the adjustment to the United States. We hear from each of the people as to where they are now and understanding the United States would be better. Where they think best simulates their climate from their country.

Person 2
They're not gonna know. They're not gonna - well I don't know about the Maya, but they're not gonna know.

[[question continuing to be asked, inaudible]]
The Mayan weather is quite humid. They come from cool and airy . . . Perhaps now they feel those nativists were part of something else.

[00:24:22]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
"Well we could obviously ask them if they've heard of another part of the United States that they would like to move to that might be more similar to where they come from.

[00:24:28]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
"We have an invitation to come to Virginia or Ohio but in Guatemala we don't have the winter time. When we came to the United States four years ago with my family, a brother, an Indian brother invite us to live with him some place here in Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, it was in October, and the cold winter, it was coming.

[00:25:02]
We stayed there during 6 months with only with wood and my children and me, we were very we support that because we needed to survive.

[00:25:19]
But we stayed at that place 2, 3 years but it was impossible to continue to live in that kind because we never have snow in Guatemala. We are living in a cold place but it's not as cold as here upstates.

[00:25:37]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
"Where in the United States would it be September would be like September here or October here all year round?
There just isn't any place."

[00:25:46]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
"We are in Florida, it's very hot too and we are there because this is the only place where we can find work in the fields because we are only agriculture people.

[00:26:01]
It's hard for us in this time in summertime to support the hot country. The people after they are working, they are saying I cannot resist to stay on the sand because the Florida place is very sandy. It's burned my feet. Sometime the people have to be at home because they feet hurts very, very hardly.

[00:26:30]
So we don't know where can we live as we used to live in Guatemala. It's difficult. But we are pleased we are lucky to be here because we are away from someone who wants to kill us.

[00:26:49]
Government is committing not only ethnicide because it's pushing us to adopt the Western culture. If we don't accept that we are subversive. He is killing us, committing genocide and bombing Indian villages with children, and women, and pregnant women.
[00:27:10]
So we need to leave and we are lucky because we're alive here. That's the best thing we have now and the support of the American people."

[00:27:20]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
"Thanks [[?]]. Any other questions of any kind?"

[00:27:25]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 3"}
"I had one. In listening to some of the comments about the natural environment and in listening to the story about the coyote in the river. What would your grandfather be able to tell you if you lived in a country where there were neither coyotes nor rivers?

[00:27:44]
And in your article about the Mayan, Duncan, you talk about the stories that refer to the waterfalls or the features of the natural environment. What do people do now when they're so far away and they can't just point to that kind of animal or that kind of tree or that kind of water- that particular place?"

[00:28:05]

Transcription Notes:
Missing name of the interviewee @ time 27:20, may be "haraway"