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{phonograph noise, Passmaquody language song}
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Gus, could you tell us a little bit about this song and what happened when you brought this song back?
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{SPEAKER name="Gus Palmer"}
OK, that is a courting song or that is a love song recorded in 1896 by the late Ida Hummingbird.
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And um, the song the courting songs are songs which the Kiowa people used to do just before the turn of the century,
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and they would ride around camps and they would sing songs to one another and they would court around the camps.
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But the response I got from the people in Oklahoma was that they had never heard this song in quite a while
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and they were familiar with at least they knew through stories through conversations with their grandparents and parents that the Kiowa people had done courting songs, so the response was immediate.
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And right away a lot of the elders who remembered some of the old songs began to sing some of the songs.
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One of the things about the cylinder project is that you get people remembering old songs and remembering traditions, recorded traditions, traditions which were recorded on the cylinders, and they start to look around and remember songs and sing these songs.
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And that's one of the things that's important about the cylinder project is that we again get people interested in music, they start bringing music back out, and they start teaching the young people music, so one of the projects we're involved with is getting the elders to record music and also teach the young people.
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