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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Okay, I'll continue with some of the other stuff that we're doing.
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I wear western clothes, so I- I did ride horses and I still have a horse and, uh, this is what happened to our forefathers after the Indian wars
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and, well after the Indian war some of the men went into the Calvary,
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which was eventually known as the Buffalo Soldiers; 10th and 9th Calvary, uh which fought Indians in the West.
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Well some people ask me what about the Scouts? Well primarily we came over from Mexico to become scouts in 1870 for the US government
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to help fight the maurading Indians. I have another thing that they ask me about, they said well,
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if you guys were with the Indians and part Indian, why did you go and help fight the Indians?
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Well I like to let you know that the Indians didn't get along with each other.
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So, they would kill each other just as much as they would anybody else, and moreso because they were maurading tribes against each other, so this was a way of making a living,
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and the Indians were robbing us the same way they did everyone else, so it was a job. So, they say well how come the Indians turned against each other?
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And you might hear this sometime but there's a number of tribes, and I can't name two, that ever got along.
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A guy told a story today, he said that up in the mines in Colorado, they had the Cherokee Indians and I think it was,
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it wasn't the Seminoles, it was another tribe, Papigoes I believe or one of the other tribes,
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and they wanted them to work in the mines, they said they wasn't gonna go into the mines so they chained them to the ore cars and sent them into the mine,
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so they let them work in there two days they thought and when they went in there they were all dead.
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And they had killed each other fighting, so, it just go to show you that I don't care what the circumstances are they didn't get along.
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But, it's not so today, and we're all here from the border and we're learning each other's customs. Like I said basics are basics,
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but during the times the transitions has changed but we all the same people we speak the same language but I tell you something else too.
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On the border, and down in interior Mexico, you can understand a person but the language will change some, the words are different, it's just like the North and the South, it is different.
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So some places they say some words I don't know what they saying I might say some slang words or something and they don't know,
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but this is a good melting pot and I really appreciate the Smithsonian for inviting us because I have been invited into the homes of so many of the people along the border,
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some of them didn't know about us and I didn't know about them and we only live a short distance apart,
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but these are my family here and we're all from la misma casa, the same house, thank you.

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I cut out "uh"