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LOGGER: Lori Taylor
REEL NUMBER: 5-6
STAGE: APS
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 Dauenhauer (Tlingit narrative specialist - Juneau, AK)
Richard Dauenhauer (anthropologist - Juneau, AK)
Gladys Widdiss (Mass. Exhibit Area - (Wampanoag/Bayhead) Island of Martha's [[strikethrough]] Vineyd [[-/strikethrough]] Vineyard (one of 2 Wampanoag tribes) one of 6 towns on the island 
Sign Language Interpreter - Hank Young
Contents
1. Intro - Tribal folklores not any "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.
5. GW - increased awareness of Native Am. presence East of Mississippi her people finally recognized as a tribe in 1987
6. "now the gov't knows who we are - and we've known all along." 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. need to find ways of acknowledging emergent traditions.
9. GW - example - cranberry traditions - hand picking, berry races
10. ND - speaks in Tlingit, thank you.
    translates.
11. ND - speaks in Tlingit, thank you. translates.
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