My mother, Rosa May Spencer Yearout (wi ‘cése), she was brought up by her grandmothers and taught how to dance. They brought her around to different celebrations. And she was always exposed to dance and she was, I guess you can say, a prize dancer in her time with her traditional dancing where she would place here and there. And so it started out for us at a young age. She would bring us around to different Powwows and any opportunity we had in Lapwai she would dress us up. And of course the extended family is important because they help with gathering your regalia. I have a dress from my grandmother Katherine Louise Heigal that she had made me and aunties making me different outfits. One of the first dances I did as a little kid is I wanted to dance like a boy. That was the fancy dance because I liked the big bells and how they sounded. And so my dad I remember him getting me bells. I wanted to be just as loud as the men out there and so I learned how to fancy dance like a boy. I remember even trying to teach some of my male cousins how to dance like a boy. One time I even owl danced with my own sister. And so that was kind of fun and we look back and laugh at that. So those were my first experiences as, from dancing and I am glad that our mother exposed us to that because we were shown the way and then growing up you could either leave it, take it or leave it. Some have stepped away but once you have been exposed to that you can step back and participate again. And uhm so I am really glad she exposed us to that because that prepared for me for the opportunities that have been really exciting for me to dance with the Mishantucket-Pequot dance troop. In which I’ve toured with them to several different countries and all over the United States. Ya know just gettin’ to know a lot of people, and the ambassador not only of my tribe but of the whole Indian nation.