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to school at Parker. Then I went back once more to the Fort Mohave boarding 

 school and lived there as I had done previously. 



[Q, asked in connection with her remark that she was in the habit of spanking 

 her children.] They spunked me when I was at school. [Why?] [Before in- 

 formant could reply, KamtoskA Huanyeily remarked jokingly, "Maybe they 

 spanked her for flirting." "O : otc would do no such thing," I replied with a 

 grin.] I got si)anke(l for speaking Mohave." I also got spanked once 

 for running away one night from school, with a Chemehuevi Indian girl, be- 

 cause I did not like school. (Q) I do not recall how old I was at that time. 

 (Q) I must have been about 12 or 13 years old, but do not recall whether I 

 was already a masahay (pubescent) or still a maratciny (=humar hatciny=pre- 

 pubeseent), because I never went through the puberty ceremony." We man- 

 aged to get away from school and walked all the way to Needles. (Q) I was not 

 scared while walking at night through the desert. I went to the house of my 

 foster parents, but remained with them only for about an hour, because the school 

 authorities discovered our escape and followed our tracks to my foster parents' 

 house. They found me there and took me back to school. That is when I 

 got spanked. 



Around 1925 I was sent to Phoenix, Ariz., for further schooling. I remained 

 in Phoenix for 5 years. (Q) I was quite happy there. I did not mind being 

 away from Parker — I was used to being away. I left school in 1929, when my 

 time was up. I made out pretty well at school, except in arithmetic. I went to 

 the ninth grade. [Here, Kamtoska Huanyeily remarked, "O : otc has got me 

 beat! I only went to the seventh grade, and I only got P's (poor) in most 

 subjects," and then left us temporarily to chop wood for O : otc] 



When I left school, I came to Parker for one or two months and stayed with 

 my father. Then I went to Needles, where one of my relatives lay dying. I 

 went there with my aunt, and stayed with her, rather than with the people who 

 had raised me. 



I forgot to tell you that I was a church member once — a Presbyterian. My 

 father was a religious, church-going man, and that is how I came to be baptized 

 at the age of 12 or 13. I stopped going to church about two years ago. (I. e., 

 rouglily at the time of her divorce.) (Q) I actuall.y used to believe what they 

 told us in church. I obeyed the church laws and the religious laws. (Q) No, 

 I did not get married in church. 



(Q) My first husband, who belongs to the Mu : th gens, used to go around 

 with my brother P. and they were coming to the house all the time. My first 

 husband had been married before and had just been divorced from his last 

 wife. (Q) lie did not help around the house, the way suitors do. I was sup- 

 posed to go back to Phoenix for some additional schooling, but I did not feel 

 like going back. (The Mohave frequently get married for such trifling reasons.) 

 He kept on coming to the house and after a while I realized that he came be- 

 cause of me. His sister used to go around with me and the two of us would go 

 swimming with him (Devereux, 1950 e). Then, one day, he a.sked me to move 

 to his place and marry him. lie was about my own age or maybe a couple of 

 years older and he got me while I was still quite young. He was pretty good to 

 me for a while and I liked him. In 1934 ^ve moved to Parker because he was 

 ill and M. A. I. Nettle, M. D., wanted him to be near the Agency hospital. He 



" ThlH was formerly standard practice in boarding schools that tried to detrlballze 

 Indian clilldrnn. 



*8 This remark Illustrates the psychological importance of the puberty rite (Devereux, 

 1950 g). 



