E: Well, you have not said the Indians will take your land away from
 you.

S: It does not even bother me. My nephew down there, it worries him
 to death. Yes, it just worries him still. I told him a thousand
 times, I said, "They are not going to come and take your place."
 He is so scared, he told me they are going to come and take his
 place. I said, "It will never be settled in my lifetime,
 anyway."

E: That is right. I do not think it is going to be settled in mine
 either. They are still talking about it and writing about it,
 but I do not think it will ever be settled.

S: I hear it is coming up on December 16. They are going to take it
 to the Supreme Court and see if they can sue.

E: That is right. Now when you were a little boy growing up in this
 friendship community, with the whites, some blacks, and the
 Indians, what was it like? What was the farm like?

S: Yes. My daddy had share croppers on the farm. See we lived in
 town, and he had share croppers down there and we would come out
 on a Thursday afternoon. He would take Thursday afternoon off
 and we would spend the afternoon and just look around.

E: Then in the summer you would come and live out here the whole
 time.

S: That is right.

E: Did you have a garden?

S: No, we did not have any garden.

E: Did you get to know any of the little Indian boys.

S: No.

E: You did not get to know any of them. What Indians do you know
 here, now?

S: To tell you the truth Miss Echols, I am one of these people who
 try to spend their time tending to their own business and not
 messing with anyone else's.

E: That is a good way.

S: I go up to Harry Neale's a lot and I say, "Harry, who is that
 fellow?" He says that is Indian so and so. I say, "Well, I do
 not know him. I do not know any of them." I used to know an old
 Indian that worked for the county, Bill something, I do not know
 what his last name was. That was the only Indian that I really
 knew. But I used to do a lot of work for Mr. Earl Glasscock,
 when he was with the county and I knew old Indian Bill, he worked


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