my journal

I don't know if I posted the last one. It was the beginning of my journal. I was talking about the year l953 when they had a raid in Short Creek Arizona. We lived there at the time. It was a experience I would not ever want to experience again. I was ll years old at the time. We as a family were taken down to Masa Arizona in buses and were put into homes as families and I think we were put into probable the best family. It was an older couple and they had a 18 year old girl still at home. It was really funny the things us as kids liked to eat we had never had catchup or botten bread before. We liked catchup sandwiches the best. They treated us really good . We could have just about anything we wanted. Which was not very heard to please us because we had had none of the things that they had so anything was good to us. This is one of the things I remember that I did that was not really funny at the time but the 18 year old was a little on the heavy side and I was sitting by her on a bench and I just made a simple statement I said look at how much room you take and I said I don't take as much room as you do. I don't think that is very funny now . I think it was roud. She took it really good though. These people were very good people though. They drank coffee but they didn't try to give it to us.
Some of the other families were not quite as lucky as we were. I remember the ones that my sister Esther got were not as lucky because they would try and give coffee to her kids and other things not bad things but it was things that st didn't want her kids to eat. Esther was put into different families because of that but my Mom and us kids we left into the same families all the time we were down there. We were also taken to parks about once a week so we were able to associate with some of the others. We as a family were not members of the church that lived down there but my parents believed a lot like they did but we didn't join their church. We pretty much stayed to our self. We were down there all summer and we started school down there. They even let our Dad come visit us. He wasn't home when they raded the town. Dad was on a ranch im Arizona some where so he wasn't taken to jail as the rest of the men were. They were taken to Knogman to jail. We were on e of the first to get let go because we promises to not go back to Short Creek and live we ending up in Salt Lake we just went back long enough toget our cloths and a few things. I' ll tell you about that later. April 14, 1009