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AI: So when you were going to school, when you were about that age, about twelve or thirteen, what was your class like? Did you -- were there a lot of other Japanese American kids in your class?

RS: Yeah, there was quite a few Japanese in that valley, that Yakima valley, around our around Wapato. There must've been about forty families there, so yeah, we had Japanese classmates and everything else that with the hakujins, too.

AI: So, about what, how... What portion would you say was Japanese American? Maybe up to a fourth of the class?

RS: Well, I don't think it was a fourth of the class. I think it was a little bit lower than that. But like I said, thirty, forty families there, there's quite a few kids going to school

AI: And mostly hakujins.

RS: Yeah, mostly hakujins. And a few other nationalities. I don't think I saw any Chinese or any other Orientals there, besides Japanese at that Wapato school.

AI: Right, do you recall what the other nationalities and cultures were?

RS: Ah, Mexican people and it's mostly hakujins, mostly Caucasian.

AI: And any of the Yakima Indian kids?

RS: Oh yeah, I guess Indian people was there, but there were -- I don't think they hardly went to school there...

AI: Very few in your class.

RS: Yeah, very few Indian people went to school. So it was mainly hakujin.

AI: Right.

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