Oklahoma Writerst Project	.6..	58



soiie kind. of medicine ty~~ de place and. build a new fire. Sometime dey feed everybody beTh‘ dey all leave for home.

	every time dey have a funeral dey always a lot of de people ‘ay, “DîcI& t you hear de stikini squal11n~ in de night ‘t“ „ I hear dat sti1ç~ni ai]. de njght~U De “stikini“ j~ de screech owl, and he suppose to tell when any~‘ body going to die ri~ht soon. I hear lots of Creek people say dey hear de screech owl close to de house, and. sho1 nuff somebody in de family die soon.

	~hen de big battle come at our place at Honey Springs dey jest git through having de green corn t1~~~~•ff De green corn was just ripene~. enou~i to eat. It must of been along in July.

	Dat busk was jest a little busk. Dey wasntt enriu~h. men around to have a good one. But I seen lots of big ones. Ones whar dey had ail de different kinds of “ban~a. ~ Dey call all ~ de dances some kind. of banga, De chicken dance is de 11Tolosabanga“, aiid de ~~Istifanibanga« is de one whar dey make lak dey is skeletons and raw heads coming to gît you.

	De ~HadjobangaI~ is de crazy dance, and dat is a funny one. Dey all dance crazy and make up funny songs to go wid de dance. Everyboây think up funny songs to sing and everybody whoop and laügh ai]. de time.

	But de worse one was de d.rui± dance. Dey jest dance ever whichaway, de men and de women together, and. dey wrassle and hug and. carry on awful! De good. people dontt dance dat one. Bverybody sing about going to somebody eises house and. sleeping wld dem, and. shout, ~We is all drunk and. we don1 t know what we doing and we amt t doing wrong ~ cause we I s all d~“ and things like dat. Sometime de bad ones leave and go to de woods, toot

	Dat kind. of doing ma3~e de good people mad, and sometime dey have killings about it. When a man catch one his women — maybeso his wife or one of his daughters ~ been to de woods he catch her and beat her and cut off de rim of her earel •