DL: What is your earliest memory as a child from the time that you were real small?
BW: Well I can remember coming over here. We never had a car. I think we caught a ride with somebody. But coming to Flandreau, it seemed like it was a long ride to me because I was a kid. I don’t think the road was paved. It seemed like I could hear rocks underneath the car. That’s my earliest memories that I can… You know we’d come to Flandreau. Our people came here and they came here because they wanted to live like the white man. They wanted to be farmers and they wanted to… First of all they wanted to be Christians. The first thing they did was to build a church. We had a garment factory at the entrance to the Flandreau Indian School. My mother worked there and she ironed. They made doctor’s clothes for these Indian hospitals. They made dresses and pajamas for the students that went to these schools. They laid out the material, cut it sewed it and she was one of them that pressed the outfits and then they packaged them up and sent them out. During the Eisenhower… When he was in office they closed that factory because they said they were competing with private enterprise