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C: Pulling together, and working together----

B: So would I.

C: To have something, one goal, a community in which other people could

 see the Indians, see how they live, see their culture. But to me, the

 Indian Center is the best thing th 1 happened in Baltimore, because

 i' made a lot of people understand Indians that didn't understand

 them before.

B: Yeat, sure we had people here who didJt even know that there

 were Indians in Baltimore, and-maybe some-uople I heard of a case,

 where one person for example, thought all the Indians were extinct.

 "Man, there laren' any Indians any more, they were all killed out!"

C: I did know there was any Indians in Baltimore till twelve years

 ago. I thought they were all in the South or out West. I did nVtknow

 there were any in Baltimore.

B: Yes, they began coming over here, just before our entry into World

 War II. I was with two other Indians, and before we entered World War

 II.T Ew.we didkt know any other Indians in Baltimore, so evidently

 we were the only ones here. But it certainly is different today, sn'

 it?

C: Oh, yeda You have more Indians coming up every day, moving up, and

 then you have a lot of older ones that are going back to North Carolina

 and build homes down there, and they are going back home to.live.

B: Do you think our numbers are remaining about the same? Do you think

 more people are going back home, or is it staying about the same?

C: To me, more or less, I guess t' staying about the same. You used to

 could just about tell, you know, about how many Indians were in Baltimore

 before they tore Broadway and \C !< Street down, because it was

 more or less a gathering place. If you wanted to see somebody, go down