I was always given to feel, and it was by people like anthros, to feel that , that to be a worthy human being, if you were coming from a pueblo, that you should have, you should know the stories just us they are in the BAE. I won't do that. I won't go to those things and do what they did. And the reason, now the more I think about it, that, you know, I don't have to is because, actually, I guess I really did in a funny kind of way through all those years, I guess from the time I was as little as Caz all the way up, hear quite a few stories. Somewhere along the line, I heard in what would be passed off now as rumor or gossip, I could hear through all of that, I could hear something too, that there was a kind of continuum or continuation, despite the fact that in 1930 Elsie Clews Parsons wrote off Laguna as being a lost cause, and said it had no kiva or something. And the same went, going for the "oral tradition." I guess somewhere along the line, I always loved those kinds of stories so much that the things in the BAE sort of looked dead and alien. And I figured, I don't know, I couldn't do anything with them anyway, even though theoretically they're supposed to have come from here.
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