KAREN:  So being raised so religious with your parents, do you think that affected the work or how did that influence your work? 

PAULA:  Well, I think it's the combination of how you live and how -- how you do your work and being religious, knowing that God had made me, God had provided everything on earth for all of us.  And to eat off land, we have all the greens, vegetables, all kinds, and all the fish and animals, berries, and we had a lot of -- my parents had a lot of respect for the land. 

And they used to say we came from land and -- and the animals, they not only teach me about our environment, but about the animals, too.  And all the food that we eat from -- from the land is pure. 

A lot of medicine, too.  And they used to say that the animals never get sick because they live off the land.  You know.  They eat -- you have -- you never see animals sick, they are always healthy all the time.  And they are healthy to eat. 

And then once in a great while there would be some rabbit, fox.  Especially recently, you know.  Maybe 30, 40 years ago.  Yeah. 

And I also used to hunt.  My -- my brother taught me how to hunt when I was -- when I was 10 years old, he taught me how to shoot.  So I used to hunt a lot. 

And so the way I grow up, I think, has lots of influence in me because the -- seems like my parents, like when I was little girl, in Fox, well, it's -- we had no neighbors around, so my brothers, two of my brothers had dog teams and -- and I used -- of course, we used to race dogs. 

And you know, the little pups, I play with little pups all the time.  And we had no stores, no dolls, and so I used to use little puppies for dolls. 

And knowing that God is around everywhere, my parents, they used to tell me that, don't ever think you're all alone because this -- you're alone, but God is everywhere.  And God is always with you and the angels, your guardian angel. 

So sometimes when I'm all alone, I used to play, pretend to play, you know, with God, you know, and angels.  And like making food for three of us. 
Things like that.