My dad and my uncles, my grandfathers had a lot to say in how I was brought up, too. If my father was missing my uncles jumped in and said well we can do it this way. They were playing the role of your father even if your father wasn’t there. You always had a male figure showing you the way to do things. I can remember going down the river at, he was overseas and I lost the wheel on my rig. It just flew down the river. My uncle Ty was there before the police even got there. He helped me find my tire and he put it back on and he says, “ I’ll always be there for you.” These are the kind of uncles I’ve had, real strong uncles. My grandfather, I can remember him doing the feather work not just the beadwork. He did learn how to do beadwork in later years but I can always see him doing the old style feather work. He was always busy with his hands and he was a carpenter. They did a lot of work and encouragement from horseback riding. I had a lot of uncle that were riders and encouraging us to do it a certain way. Sometimes they’d be strict with you but that strictness is what made you try harder. That is what I remember about my uncles, too. So it is not just the female figures, the male figures had a lot to say in how we were raised, too.