quick. Yes. Okay, confident. Right. Yes. Okay. You say it right. Yeah. Um
did you know the interviews at issue? They have like an online repository
and we put them on the issue library. So anybody all over the world can
see it. So if you tell people in Sudan South Sudan, look at my interview,
they can go on there and look at it and then I'll leave you this. We don't
have to sign them, this is anything. But we make certain that it's only
used for educational. Nobody can um profit from your interview. It's only
educational. And then what I'll do is when we get uploaded, I'll send you
the link and you can send it to whoever and then so we're going to go
through the interview and we're gonna I'm gonna ask you first about your
name and your family. So we can people know like you're where you were
born, we're going to go into memories. Uh huh, your village life, you can
tell you about your village life. Then we're going to go into about how
war came to your village, what happened, the refugee camp? And then you're
when you came to America first came to America, you know what you
experience there. And then I'm gonna end it with asking you how you want
to be remembered because ideally I'm hoping that these interviews, your
your Children, your great grandchildren, great, great grandchildren can
always go back and say this is this is who who brought us here. This is
you know. Yeah. And then I'm gonna ask you if you can think in your native
tongue. Okay, insane. What is my name is at the very end. Just anything
you want to, whatever you want to leave here something in your native
tongue. If you want to say maybe two people back home, you know, or maybe
the people here and uh and so and so your your Dinka nor Okay. The Okay.
Okay. So you need a time uh give me Microsoft about sweating because
there's a lot shine to it. Okay, right now. Oh, I get a lot of shine. Okay.
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he took my daughter's picture and he had to do the same advice. Mother
signed a lot of shine
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Mhm. That's even we're ready for you. Ready? Um hmm. Is it done? Okay.
Because of the image is getting back to my document.
How's that for the your profile? Good. Okay, that looks good. Okay. 123.
So we're gonna start, Thank you so much for coming. So we're gonna start
interview doing your interview. And as I mentioned, this is gonna be sort
of a S. U. And generations and generations will always be able to come
back to your interview. So I want to start off if you can state your name
and the spelling of it and uh and then where you were born. Thank you very
much. And it is my pleasure to meet you today too. My name is quick to you.
It is, it's felt K. U E T X. And the last name is why you go. Mhm. Mhm.
I'm from I'm from South Sudan and I'm from the building about cover in
your great state South Sudan. Um Originally anywhere
my tribe. Hey try this. Okay so I might try to do it. And I'm from a tribe
plan by the name loner in october and the longer it's like being a ST uh
Okay thank you. Um do you know your birth date when your date of birth? I
know that a lot of us boys, they didn't know their birthdays and records
were lost. But can you tell me roughly when do you think your birthday is
? And by the way many of us do not have the actual birthday and when when
I went to school I depend on the event that my father and mother told me
about and then I knew the year that I was born but I was not sure of the
actual day that I was born. But when I came here I had to pick a date that
I need to remember all the time. So that day now is my permanent but okay
what's that? Take june six 1972
that this is when I was going? Okay But you remember the the season back
home right that it was around, how do you remember? It was true they say
at that time you know it was like around 1972 when the peace
she has.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
Your way It was around 1970s
1972. Uh when the government of Sudan.
Oh
yes yes I know. Thank you. Okay good. When the government of Sudan and A
rebel in South Sudan which has been used to sign his talking at the
Survivor. It was whether on 1972 at that time. And they said my father
said you know that time when the soldiers used to go out to Ethiopia. You
know like because our home is like the way to go to Ethiopia at that time.
This is when you know I was born, you know based on the story that my
father told me. So I knew it was it was somewhere between between ever and
in life. So I picked June in the middle. Yeah June six with my birthday.
That sounds good. That sounds good. So can you give me the names of your
parents? And then how many siblings Jihad? By the way my father, you have
two wives. I have my wife, my mother and I have siblings from another
mother. And I call I call her to my mother. My my my parent name is you do
you why you are uh and the last name is Dumas. You know you and your book.
That's my father's name and then my mother name is Yeah. Bill you can
that's my mother's name. My you know my mother that that I come out. I
have another mother but I don't know if it's water convention. Yes. Yes my
other mother name is sansa trying to do
and she have she had like three siblings. They are my best siblings and we
understand each other. I did talk to my, one of my brothers this morning.
Yes yes back home and he's from my mother from another mother that I
considered him. My brother is my real brother. So yeah it's a strip
brother but we are like the same from the same mother and the same product.
That's how we look at each other. So how many total brothers and sisters
? I have a couple of for rather one brother for a total of five brothers.
Um two brothers from my mother and two sisters. And then three grab it
from the mother than another mother. Uh Yeah. So from my birth mother I
lost I lost the first brother that is you know holder than me. We lost him
through the war and tells you that and then we lost his history to our
only sister. So I become the oldest one. You know. So I'm the only one
that remained at the order from the past mother and and my my my younger
brother and the youngest sister until we are like three from the best
mother. And then you know we lost to the older brother from the bottom of
the second mother. We lost the second I mean the older brother. and then
now I have two brothers from my other mother. Okay. Okay. Okay. Thank you.
And then uh, did you, can you tell me about your tribe? I think I think
we mentioned a little bit about your tribe already. So it's just
uh, and I'm, I'm actually from the long wear intertribal within more, but
we are like the largest section of the north of the new tribe, the founder
and the inventor. They are the two largest new setting with the trial. So
I come from one of the largest section. Okay, thank you. So now we're
going to talk about growing up in your native land in everyday life. So
tell me about your, your memories of growing up in your village. What was
your village like? And how is that? Is that stuff
growing up in the Bill is it's it's really fun. Uh, if I could remember
the thing that we did our Children when we were, we were very young it was
going to find. So what we do is, you know the Bill is in South Sudan. We
do not have like development, there's no electricity, there's no roads,
there's no running water, there's nothing like that. So all we do was, you
know, we were like uh like the cowboys, you know, so uh because our
parents are farmer. Uh the funds for uh how do you call it? Uh uh huh.
They are like, you know the people that have cut up the ranch ranchers,
ranchers. So
what we do as a young people, what I remember they would, I was taking
care of my goods and columns. You know, you know running after them. You
know if the other tribe boys trying to come, you know we, we fight each
other. You know like the boys, the boy from the other neighborhood boy
from my neighborhood too. We just, we just making a a fight because we
want to be the super, uh, you know on top of them, that's what we do. But
that fight, you know, it's like your Children fight and then you know the
whole, the people were not important to that fight. Even if they see you
fighting, it was just like making fun to each other. You know, so if all
the person come and see you fighting, you know he would, it doesn't matter
where they come from. They come from the other section from here. They
will come and separate you and say, okay now we're not. You know, you can
finish it. You can get the stuff, you will start from there. And then if
you defeat the Children from the other community and then you know you'll
be a super. You fraud yourself and say now we are super, we defeat them.
So we are good people. Yeah. So now we can, we can uh different our
community. Yeah, that's good. How old were you do you remember how, how
old were you until it is start when when you are five years old. This is
when you start going after the matter you know. And uh It was there until
until I turned 10 or 11. Okay. Did you have a school there? Did you go to
school? There is no school. It's okay. And then did you? So other than the
cattle, can you tell me a little bit about your food? You know the food
that you ate there? And uh like I say our parents are like the
Palmers um every source of you know like everybody from my community we
have farms. We have a small family. You can you can you know you can
what do you do if we do not have a irrigation system. There's no
subdivision system. So you have a small farm that you're taken care of and
you have uh you have like corn and then you have uh
mais you know uh those are the kind of the crowd that we use you know for
generation the generation you know it just comes like every every year.
You know you know what you've got to cultivate into that part. You know
every year it's just the same thing repeating over and over again every
year. So the food that we hit you know it's it's from the con by the way
that's that's what we use all the time and and the meal from the car
because the cartels are domain the main resources for for my family, you
know like if you have like many partners Like let's say you have like five
or you have 10 or you have 20 Then you will be considered a weak person.
You have 2020, 2020 and a little bit more. You are a little richer. You
know there are some people that have like 50 and 100 you know and some
people you have cutters, you have cars and at the same time you get goats
and you have to see uh so if you have like many of them like that then you
considered very well. How about your family? What did they have to
remember? I know my my father, my father also it was a businessman to a
corporate I'll hunter. So what in the end was Daniel hunter. It was, it
was really good you know um here friends from the other tribe from the
annual tribe. Then they go and hunt for crocodile. And what he did was he
bought most of our cultural through the business. You know because it's a
crocodile hunter. So what he did was he go to Gambella Ethiopia and by
assault a back of salt you know he brought back of salt you know many of
them uh in in the village. The salt is really a different flavor because
you know we don't use most people don't use salt a lot. So what they use
is the meal from the car or the meal from the girl that's what we eat with.
But if you get the salt you know people who would like to steal it
sometimes. Yeah so when other people from the neighborhood trying to come
and get my father talks on, he get upset a lot with my mother and I
remember that you know you gotta fight with my mother because you don't
want it to be wasted. You know keep that song because if he if he go to
hunt for a crocodile that he killed one or two. So what he did with you
put the salt on deerskin uh you know and he took his skin he put it in a
small how do you call it? You know like a small boat you call it?
We have a small canoe you know you put it in there and he'd take it
through the river, he took it to Gambella and he sell it to the Ethiopian.
The two people for food, they faded. Uh no they wanted for shoes, they
want they want the crocodile uh skin for shoes and for other things that I
don't know what they use it with. Okay that's what you tell us you know so
what do you buy there? He bought medicine, you know people like medicine
like color of pain and I think you know uh some type of medication for for
for headache and fever you know and for a strong back pain and for eyes
you know he get them and when you get them because they are better at in
the village. So he sells and then if somebody gets sick you know he sell
his medication and then you know he can get car You know for maybe five
and or you can you can get a good for two or three. So that's what he used
to do you know? And sometimes you you know that time uh this is more a
group of people that have guns he buy and buy like bullets too five
Bullets. It's equal to like one 1 1 Small book You know. Yeah that was way
back there you know so he did that you know and he get in business. So at
that time we have a goodnumber