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LOGGER'S SHEET   134

LOGGER: Lori Taylor
REEL NUMBER: 4     STAGE: AFS
DATE: 7/1/1988     PRESENTOR: Charlie Camp
GROUP NAME: Conservation: Natural and Cultural
REGION/STYLE: 
PERFORMER(S)              INSTRUMENT/OCCUPATION
Teresita Gonzalez (&Norma Cantu)(dancer [NC-folklorist] both laredo, TX) 
Dave Gilson (stone wall builder- Massachusetts)
Leo Calac (Luiseno Culture Project- San Luis [[crossed-out]] [[??]] [[crossed-out]], Calif.)
Julie Brown (herb garden display- Mass. Program- South Dartmouth)

CONTENTS
1. Intro- care & keeping of American culture spoken of in language developed to discuss natural conservation. 
2. LC- project most explicitly (how about & obviously) connected with conservation
1769-1834 (mission period) and gold rush (1849-50) destroyed
3. California Indian culture- gathered from anthropological records. 
4. Calif. Indians have no large land base, therefore often cross into mainstream.
5. JB- culture under siege. She lives on a family farm in an area 
of great redevelopment (near Boston, on the water). 
6. What would be lost? sense of fellowship- there should be an
evolution in what is farmed and how. 
7.DG- 13thgeneration farmer in a small town. 
stone wall as an art form...
8. rocks were in the way for 12 [[crossed-out]] [[t]] [[crossed-out]] generations- now he is here glorifying them
9. TG- likely that the Matichines tradition will die out? 
No, this is a family tradition, all ages involved, many young people.
10. they teach their children so it won't die. 
JB- do you as a family discuss continuity in the farm - NO- Yankee Family
11. eventually she & her husband will have to buy her father-in-laws farm.
12. DG- how does he feel about moving his work from private to public
sector (museums, festivals)? Different perception in public, 
13. higher regard. Raise the prestige level for, as an example, 
Vocational Education. 
LC- what aspects of culture can't be documented in the culture bank? 
one obvious thing- oral histories, blood lines, sacred places, 
singing(don't [[crossed-out]] [[??]] [[crossed-out]] know meanings), petroglyphs on reservation (meaning)
TG- base the dance on the oldest dancers in the group.