MISS CHOC 7A 49



I: Do you talk Choctaw in your home?

D: Yes, sir.

I: You don't talk English.

D: Well, we mix them.

I: How about your children?

D: They do.

I: Are they...

D: When they read and write, things like that, he can't

 even pronounce the Choctaw so he has to talk English, see.

I: But you talk to your children in Choctaw and in English.

D: Yes, sir.

I: When you and your wife talk, what do you talk?

D: We talk Choctaw.

I: Choctaw.

D: Yeah.

I: Does her parents...are they still living?

D: No. She got sister and brother living. But me, I ain't

 got no family.

I: You had a brother and sister.

D: Dead.

I: They're dead?

D: All of them gone but me. My family's going. No sister,

 no brother.

I: But your wife has family.

D: Yeah.