Joyce McGhee speaks about the history of her relationship with her late husband, Chief Calvin McGhee. They knew each other from childhood and became sharecroppers after marrying, and then purchased land. She recalls the first house they lived in, which they built together, and the animals they kept, especially hogs. She goes on to talk about raising their children and a boy they housed. During her work as a nurse and midwife, she observed the gaps in the birth records of Indians, and discusses how they were left out of racial identification on the census and birth certificates. She goes on to discuss racial discrimination at the time. She speaks about bringing their children up within the Pentecostal Holiness religion, and the healing of one of sons. She describe the process of making cane syrup with her family, and how they made ends meet during the early years of their marriage by hunting and fishing. She then speaks more on her husband’s childhood and history of activism, and on their family’s transition from the Episcopalian to the Holiness church.