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Interview transcript
How my father got his name changed, when he was a young man they were sending young Indian men and women back east to school to Carlisle, Pennsylvania and Hampton, Virginia. And my father was sent to Hampton, Virginia. Now I've got records and all you'd have to do is to contact Hampton and you'll see. And my father only went to school maybe a little over two years, close to three years because his father was ailing. My grandfather, his name was Sinkpay. And he had a brother, Bowdhead, Pow Koodye Bowdhead and Sinkpay is a muskrat. And I've only got one picture of my grandfather because the one lady that interviewed I said, you must remember cameras, you had nothing like this. And so cameras or pictures are hard to get.