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LOGGER: Lori Taylor
REEL NUMBER: 5-6 STAGE: AFS
DATE: 6/25/1988 PRESENTOR: Rayna Green
GROUP NAME: American Indian Folklore
REGION/STYLE:
PERFORMER(S) INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION
Rayna Green (American Indian Program Smithsonian, DC)
Nora Davenhauer (Tlingit narrative specialist - Junes, AK) 
Richard Davenhauer (anthropologist - Junes, AK)
Gladys Widdiss (mass. Exhibit Area - Bay Head - one of 6 towns on the island - Wampanoag) Island of Martha's Vineyard. (one of 2 Wampanoag tribes)
Sign Language Interpreter - Hank Young. 
CONTENTS
1. Intro - Tribal folklores not (an) "American Indian folklore"
2. many Native Americans have reclaimed the interest in their community
ND - w/ Native folklorists, there is a deeper commitment, greater sensitivity
3. RD - to deal with copyrights, a Tlingit corporation has been formed w/ shareholders
4. RG - ownership of narrative acknowledged now to be narrator's.
GW - increased awareness of Native Am. presence East of Mississippi
5. her people finally recognized as a tribe in 1987
"now the gov't knows who we are - and we've known all along."
6. taking the middleman out of their lives with Native folklorists.
7. RG - counter the assaults on Native Peoples (religion, language, absorption into the whole of "Native American Culture"). 
8. Question of "purity" - the people change, the various people come together. 
9. need to find ways of acknowledging emergent traditions.
10. GW - example - cranberry traditions - hand picking, berry races
ND - speaks in Tlingit, thank you.
11. translates.
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