(Irene) This story was told by
Grandma Supernaw to her son Bill, this is how her
father, Tallchief, told it to her, also how it was told
to him by his father.
(Maude) Well, I was gonna tell a story, what my father
and great grandfather where talking about …. My father
learned from him, so I’m gonna tell how Quapaw, they
come from the …. I try and tell a story …. They claim,
my father said they claim a big fire, a big tree fire,
that’s what, they come out of it, they told me.
So, and uh, I’m gonna tell them, and uh, and they
brought corn with them too, to raise, eating on it, and
they make medicine out of it too. So, they brought that
with them, I guess, I know, I guess God give them, I
guess. So, they bring with them.
So, they travel around, they camping somewhere around
there, working, making a living, so, and uh, they right
along the ocean, and they see that, uh, people come in a
boat, white, white man, woman. So, they funny looking
that first time they see whites. So, they didn’t know
what to do, they want kill them, and they don’t want to,
and so, they went over there and shake hands with them,
and they talking, motioning around and after awhile they
got whiskey and they said, uh, give whiskey and they
said their mother call, uh, white woman, they call
father , uh, mother and the white man, father. So, they
didn’t kill them. So, they talking around there awhile
and they told when they give them so many days to come
back in. So, they left, Indians left, and so they went
back and, back ocean, I guess, across. And, uh, later
on, many days, they going to come back, and they went
over there again and they meet them again and they bring
flour, coffee, salt, sugar, something like that, they
bring with them. So, that’s what the Indian learned how,
what taste of salt was, and flour, and the coffee,
that’s what they learned, they say, so. |