Local Natives

They made a house out of twigs and branches and weave them all through. Put grass all through them and so on. Just like a net, you know, then they’d put the grasses all through and so on and the floors were mud floors and they normally had in some of the areas they would have like maybe one or two stoves outside. Like a barbecue as we would call it, but a stove and it was made of brick and clay and it was a common area like maybe four or five families would use the same stove.The poverty there was terrible. It still is today. It’s terrible that we, in this part of the country, don’t realize what the poverty is over there. Here it is what thirty-eight or forty years ago and they’re still doing the same thing today. So I look at it, I look at it myself and say, well what good did I do there? You know, what was even the sense of even going there in the first place? You know, and because it’s our commitment to do that, of course, but you think about that after awhile. You know, I wasted my time there, but did I? I don’t know, I don’t think I did, I hope not.