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[Underlined] LOGGER'S SHEET 
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LOGGER: [Underlined] Lori Taylor
REEL NUMBER: [Underlined] 8
STAGE: [Underlined] AFS
DATE: [Underlined] 6/26/1988
PRESENTOR: [Underlined] Rayna Green
GROUP NAME: [Underlined] American Indian Folklore
REGION/STYLE: [Underlined]

[Underlined] PERFORMER(S) [Underlined] INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION
Rayna Green (folklorist - Washington, DC) ^ Cherokee-Oklahoma Amlnd. program, Smiths.
Nora Davenhauer (writer, oral historian, Juneau, AK) Tlingit
Richard Davenhauer (poet, oral historian - Juneau, AK) 
Suzi Jones (NEH-was in Alaskan Native Program-Washington, DC)

[Underlined] CONTENTS
1. Intro-BG
issues-survival of cultures
2. activity within Native communities to protect their own culture.
at one time, gov't outlawed Native - ceremonies, dances, songs.
3. ND- programs of Tlingit preservation - language, translation to Eng.
4. children are usally(sic) mono-lingual English speaking.
5. RD - putting together their book on Tlingit narrative.
biographies just as the narrators want them
6. appealing to a Washingtonian as well as the Native Community
7. RG - many Native Communities feel the work done is for themselves
rather than for a general audience.
education on issues of ownership & copyright.
8. SJ - variants? censorship? (question to ND & RD)
9. ND- clans are incorporated -ownership goes to them
10. groups took turns telling everyone's stories (recitation of oral histories)
RD - on censorship - they put in what the narrators wanted in.
11. considers audience prejudices (who is in the audience - determines who is considered the bad guys).
12. SJ - Alaskan Natives not organized into tribes & reservations as 
13. in ^"the lower 48" mainland. Now corporations for cultural purposes.
RG - establishment of institutions to preserve.
are Native designs stolen? how is cultural robbery prevented?
ND - they don't know who steals. Crafts people sell directly to public.
educate the native in ways of business to protect them.
Concl. - some of the issues in preservation.