switch business there are numerous time-outs during which the spectators munch popcorn and look on with great interest while the players listen earnestly to the coach's advice and slap each other on the back. As equally important as the players were the cheerleaders. These six girls formed a squad dressed in vividly flaring deep blue skirts and heavy white sweaters with a big letter E on them (that stood for Golden Eagles, the name of our sports tearns). They jumped around with great energy in time to different school songs and cheers. Otherwise however I found the girls dishearteningly inactive. They seemed to accept it as their duty to merely cheer on the boys and not to participate in any sport themselves. Besides all this activity and homework, I was kept busy with speaking engagements of which I had a steady two a week, and sometimes two a day near Christmas time when so many clubs were having their Christmas parties. It was when talking to these clubs that I was most thankful for my secondary school days in a Maori College, and the Maoritanga taught to us there for with this knowledge I felt I had a little more to offer than my pakeha friends who went over in our group. I found the South Dakotans genuinely interested in our people especially as South Dakota has a large Indian population and is therefore closer to the native people of America than an industrial state, say New York for instance. The people were very impressed with the beautiful Maori songs and the hakas recorded on my tape recordings which I played every chance I got even though they made me feel a little bit homesick. My minister grew so attached to these recordings that he made a copy and used to play it every evening and according to recent letters, still does, and now would like another group of recordings. Television of course was something new and fascinating and I spent many evenings watching baseball matches, boxing and movies on our TV set. I appeared on TV several times, mostly to do the poi and for interviews along with foreign students from other towns. There was nothing particularly thrilling in making these appearances, about the only impression I have now is that I came out of the studio feeling like a well baked potato—the lights were hot and glaring and I felt uncomfortable the whole time, still it is nice to think I've actually been on TV even if squinting at the cameras and looking like a lettuce left out all day in the sun. “The relays” is the name given to the Interscholastic Athletic Championships, and there are big campaigns beforehand to decide who will be the Relay Queen. (Her duties are to hand the trophies to the various Athletic Champions). Each candidate chooses a boy manager to run the
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