Isabella Brady, Sarah Williams, Ethel McKennan, and Charlie Joseph are interviewed by Jeff Kennedy at the Aleut night during the Alaska Native Arts Festival in Fairbanks, Alaska in March 1976.
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Isabella Brady, Sarah Williams, Ethel McKennan, and Charlie Joseph are interviewed by Jeff Kennedy at the Aleut night during the Alaska Native Arts Festival in Fairbanks, Alaska in March 1976.
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1 audiotape reel (30 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, mono. ; 7 in.
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Recorded in Fairbanks, Alaska in March 1976. Broadcast by KUAC radio station in Fairbanks, Alaska in 1977.
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Isabella Brady talks about the education program in Sitka, Alaska, Charlie Joseph bringing back the traditonal ways of presenting songs, their afterschool program teaching their language and dance. Sarah Williams talks about her daughters learning the Tlingit language. Ethel McKennan talks about growing up in the culture and teaching in the program. Charlie Joseph talks about the culture and language program, waring a traditional shirt, the children performing a song in Aleut, over one hundred years ago a man from their nation living in Aleut country and returning to Sitka and teaching the songs and dances of the Aleut, teaching the children the same songs, songs from the Copper River people, the children learning songs from different Indian cultures, people in the Klukwan area trading with the Athabaskan people, his people intermarrying withe the Haida people, and songs from the Tsimshian.
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In English and Tlingit.