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Interview transcript
When your baby is born, it doesn’t come with a guarantee. When my brothers were born, they didn’t come with a guarantee that they were going to be…doctors or lawyers, you know. There just born. As they come into your life, you accept them and try to develop them. I always try to talk to my kids…to make plans ahead…when they’re little like that. “What are you going to be when you graduate? What are you going to be when you grow up?” Look to the future…and don’t look back. Because whatever happened back there…like my son taking his life…there’s nothing I could do to change that. When I talk to kids…like the Boys and Girls Club…”What are you going to do when you grow up?” Put that idea out there, you know. So then they are thinking about, “Oh I’ll do this. Or I’ll do that.” And then talk to them about…there’s life…there’s no stop signs out here…outside the reservation. You can go anywhere you want.