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Language:Ahtna | English | Eyak | Tanana, Lower | Tanana, Upper
Date:1958
Contributor:Billum, Douglas | Billum, Mary Anne | De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | George, Bacille | Jackson, Martha | Joe, Bill | Joe, Maggie | McClellan, Catharine | McKinley, Jim | Sanford, Kate | Sanford, Ralph | Stanfield, Fanny
Subject:Alaska--History | Music | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Conversations | Interviews | Songs | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:8 sound tape reels (7 hr., 31 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Ahtna songs and stories recorded in Copper Center, Alaska by Frederica de Laguna in 1958. Includes numerous interviews on autobiographical topics, explanations of Ahtna songs, sleep doctors, and traditional narratives. Also includes vocabulary related to kinship terms. Songs include potlatch songs, love songs, drinking songs, and songs of Tlingit origin. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection:Ahtna Songs and Texts Recorded at Copper Center, Alaska (Mss.Rec.31)
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Language:Ahtna | English | Tanana, Upper | Tutchone, Southern | Tanacross
Date:1966, 1968
Contributor:Brown, Andy | Charley, Tenas | De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | David, Jessie | Ewan, Annie | George, Bacille | George, Nancy | Jackson, Arthur | Jackson, Martha | Joe, Bill | John, Lucy | McKinley, Jim | Pete, Elizabeth | Pete, Mentasta | Peters, Jenny | Sanford, Kate | Sinyone, Jim | Stanfield, Fanny | Tanzy, Jake | Tanzy, Lily
Subject:Alaska--History | Folklore | Medicine | Music | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Interviews | Songs | Stories
Extent:27 sound tape reels (14 hr., 55 min.)
Description: Ahtna songs and stories recorded in 1968 by Frederica de Laguna at Copper Center, with additional ones also recorded at Cantwell, Chistochina, Gulkana, and Upper Tanana material recorded at Tetlin. Includes dance songs, sorry songs, potlatch songs, sleep doctor songs, and others. Includes "Gulkana Potlatch Given by Bill Joe and Kate Sanford for Recovery of Maggie Joe from Illness." Some songs are Tlingit, Upper Tanana, or Tanacross in origin. Includes Ahtna stories, autobiographical accounts, vocabularies, and interviews, as well as a few Southern Tutchone songs recorded at Burwash Landing, Yukon Territory. Also includes Tetlin potlatch songs recorded in 1966.
Collection:Ahtna and Southern Tutchone recordings (Mss.Rec.68)
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Blackfoot includes: Niitsítapi, Blackfeet
Date:1950
Contributor:Bear Child, Lewis | Hecote, Ellen | Running Crane, Geneva | Schenadoah, Rodney | Fenton, William N., (William Nelson), 1908-2005
Subject:Montana--History | Music | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Songs | Vocabularies
Extent:3 sound tape reels (1 hr., 22 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: The Blackfoot materials in the William Fenton audio collection are located in "Series 9: Blackfoot Songs and Dances." One recording includes a very brief word list in Crow. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection:William Fenton audio collection (Mss.Rec.138)
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Language:Cherokee
Date:1936
Contributor:Driver, Wesley | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
Subject:Hunting | Music | North Carolina--History | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Extent:6 min.
Description: The Cherokee materials in the Frank Speck recording collection consist of a speech, "Story of Long Life and Going to Heaven," given by Will West Long, and a "Bear Hunt Song" given by Wesley Driver. The latter of these recordings is restricted due to cultural sensitivity.
Collection:Recordings of Cherokee, Creek, Naskapi, Penobscot, Sioux, Santee, Tutelo, and Winnebago (Mss.Rec.49)
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Date:1948
Contributor:Bigfoot, David | Birdwoman, Laura | Blackhorse, Francis | Croft, Kenneth | Guerrier, William | Littlebird, Anna May | Littlebird, Harry | Monatie, Albert | Red Bird, Charles | Stands In Timber, John | Yellow Spider, Mr.
Subject:Education | Folklore | Music | Montana--History | Oklahoma--History | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Autobiographies | Songs | Stories
Extent:5 sound tape reels (7 hr.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Field recordings made on 10 wire spools in 1948 in Lame Deer, Montana and El Reno, Oklahoma. Consists of traditional and historical stories, autobiographical narratives, unidentified texts, all given in Cheyenne only. Also includes discussions of the state of Cheyenne learning among the younger generation, and a variety of peyote, war dance, and hand game songs. Originally recorded on wire spools. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection:Cheyenne material (Mss.Rec.5)
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Dakota includes: Dakȟóta
Language:Dakota
Date:1935
Contributor:Sky Eagle
Subject:Games | Music | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Songs
Extent:12 min. : DIGITIZED
Description: The Dakota materials in the Frank Speck recording collection consist of 5 recordings of moccasin game songs and war songs. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection:Recordings of Cherokee, Creek, Naskapi, Penobscot, Sioux, Santee, Tutelo, and Winnebago (Mss.Rec.49)
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Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Date:1928
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Witapanóxwe
Subject:Dance | Oklahoma--History | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Extent:2 sound tape reels (41 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Songs performed by Chief James Webber (Witapano'xwe,) May 10, 1928. Originally recorded on wax cylinders, dubbed to sound tape reels in 1950. Included are dance songs, peyote songs, women's social dance songs (with Shawnee and Iroquois versions), a speech, portions of a big house ceremony, and songs for First Day. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection:Delaware Indian material (Mss.Rec.4)
Date:1995
Contributor:C'Hair, Wayne | C'Hair, William James | Gone, Fred P. | Hatton, Orin T., 1953- | Taylor, Allan R. (Allan Ross), 1931-
Subject:Dance | Linguistics | Music | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs | Wyoming--History
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Interviews | Songs
Extent:5 sound tape reels (4 hr., 44 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Linguistic and cultural fieldwork about songs associated with the Crow Dance of the Northern Arapaho and its relation to the Ghost Dance and other tribes' dances. Consists of linguistic and cultural analysis and transcription of 16 pre-recorded songs sung by Fred Gone, Sr. an with Arapaho consultant, William C'Hair. Also includes extensive discussion of Arapaho customs and ceremonies. Recorded in Arapahoe, Wyoming on 18 July 1995. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection:Ghost Dance-era Songs of the Arapaho Crow Dance (Mss.Rec.242)
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Date:1965
Contributor:Albert, Earl | Black, Robert A., 1927- | James, Alice | Nash, Sylvin | Talawepi, Charlie | Talayeseva, Don
Subject:Arizona--History | Music | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Interviews | Songs
Extent:4 sound tape reels (5 hr., 17 min.)
Description: Field recordings made in Arizona in 1965. Hopi songs of a wide variety, including kachinas, clown, and corn-grinding songs, many with translation and commentary. Also includes Pan-Indian English-language "pachala" songs and discussions of different types of songs, dances, ceremonies, and subsistence activities. Portions of this collection may be restricted due to potential cultural sensitivity and privacy concerns.
Collection:Hopi Indian Songs (Mss.Rec.56)
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Date:1950
Contributor:Fenton, William N., (William Nelson), 1908-2005
Subject:Music | New Mexico--History | Powwows | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Songs
Extent:16 min. : DIGITIZED
Description: The Hopi materials in the William Fenton audio collection consists of one recording, "Hopi Buffalo Dance of Keames Cañon," located in "Series 10: Indian Summer School Dance Program." (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection:William Fenton audio collection (Mss.Rec.138)