peter kalifornsky was responsible for keeping the culture alive at a time when all the odds were stacked against them. eva is his stepdaughter and remembers the time when he was alive. he never spoke english to me when i went to visit him. he always spoke indian, and i answered him back in english. ha ha ha! before he passed away, he was talking to me about the dances and all the language that he has revived back, and the last words he told me was to keep going to the indian classes and to keep it going so that my grandchildren could at least speak a little bit of the language. he told me so many things. he told me stories when he was married to my mom, and he told me to keep my culture... and told us to try our best to keep it going for the younger generation. this little place has a great deal of meaning for us because it's something that our ancestors used and walked on, and it's nice to see that other people have begun, for whatever reasons, that they've begun to realize that it's a valuable thing that's disappearing, and that we're the only ones who can really make it whole again. c