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ES: Now after a successful year, the Heart Mountain Agriculture Chairman, or the leader, decided to have a picnic for all the workers in the agriculture. So we had a little picnic down at the bottom of Shoshone River. "Shoshone," translated from Indian language to English, is "stinking water." Here's me coming up from the river, here we're ready to have a barbeque lunch. "Come here, we're ready to go." There's James Ito. James Ito was the father of the Judge Ito who presided over O.J. Simpson's case. There's one of my brother, and the girls taking a dip in the water. Drinking water comes from this river. Of course, it's filtered through a plant to make it safe for drinking. This is one of the ag. secretaries, Sumi Matsushige. Now, the ones that finish having their barbeque early are coming up the hill. The river's way down in the bottom of the canyon, and they're all coming home to board the bus to come to the camp. Here's a lady that just missed the bus. The trees you see are in the bottom of the canyon near the river. You see very, very few trees on the plateau. Here they're waiting for the next bus to pick them up to take them back to the camp. Here they're ready, about to go.

Here is the swimming pool, another community activity. We dug a hole in the ground, and we gathered boulders, big rocks, to put in the bottom, so we won't stir the dirt in the bottom and become a mud hole. The swimming board was there, that board you see, was there 'til a few years ago, until one of the farmers set fire to the grass nearby, and now the only remains is the square-shaped swimming pool.

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