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Title: T'u baRa Sorry Song
Identifier(s): audio:6794; APSdigrec_1665; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 11
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1960. (Mss.Rec.41);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Social life and customs; Tanacross language; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1960-08-27

Title: Coming Up qAsqei
Identifier(s): audio:6807; APSdigrec_1667; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 13
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1960. (Mss.Rec.41);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Social life and customs; Ahtena language
Date: 1960-08-27

Title: "Stinking" Victory Song and explanation
Identifier(s): audio:7546; APSdigrec_1423; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 21
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; War songs
Date: 1968-07-21

Title: Ring Charley's Sorry Song
Identifier(s): audio:6768; APSdigrec_1633; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 21
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1960. (Mss.Rec.41);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Social life and customs; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska; Ahtena language
Date: 1960-08-14

Title: Too Much Johnson
Identifier(s): audio:6765; APSdigrec_1641; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 29
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1960. (Mss.Rec.41);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Social life and customs; Ahtena language
Date: 1960-08-14

Title: Talk
Identifier(s): audio:7011; APSdigrec_1132; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 20
Description: "Lucy Albert speaks in Northway Athabaskan.... Frank Charley evidently paraphrases in Chistochina dialect.... Maggy Joe explains that Lucy Albert lost her cousin, the big chief, at Northway. She has just come back here to live near her two surviving relatives, - ?- and Frank Charley, her son."; Recorded at Chistochina Song Fest.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska; Upper Tanana language; Ahtena language
Date: 1954-08-20

Title: Love Song
Identifier(s): audio:7888; APSdigrec_1320; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 28
Description: "This seems to have been started by Maggy Joe. Her sister, Kate Sanford was convulsed with laughter. (Possibly the song is connected with Mentasta Pete's relatives; or from Dawson.) Chistochina people, 7/23/60, gave the words as 'Come back, honey'."
Source: De Laguna, Frederica, and McClellan, Catharine. Atna texts, etc., recorded in Copper Center, Alaska, 1958. (Mss.Rec.31);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena language; Love songs
Date: 1958-08-15

Title: Whitehorse or Northway sARani (Crow) Song
Identifier(s): audio:7857; APSdigrec_1328; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 36
Description: "'ali hei' and clapping at the end. The crow sits down in a trap. Jim McKinley was critical of Bill Joe's singing. The latter admitted in 1960 that he had cut it off short."
Source: De Laguna, Frederica, and McClellan, Catharine. Atna texts, etc., recorded in Copper Center, Alaska, 1958. (Mss.Rec.31);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena dance; Ahtena language; Upper Tanana language
Date: 1958-08-15

Title: Santa Claus Song
Identifier(s): audio:7903; APSdigrec_1324; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 32
Description: "Jim McKinley was a kid when he heard this song. They first saw Santa Claus in Dawson, but were afraid of him. This seems to have been when they had a potlatch for Jim's uncle. Recorded comments: 'That's a ghost song - k'iyegi.' ... 'Too high.'"
Source: De Laguna, Frederica, and McClellan, Catharine. Atna texts, etc., recorded in Copper Center, Alaska, 1958. (Mss.Rec.31);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena language; Upper Tanana language; Santa Claus--Songs and music
Date: 1958-08-15

Title: Dawson Dancing Song
Identifier(s): audio:7878; APSdigrec_1326; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 34
Description: "'hwu' hu' hu' 'Eli'a!' Kate Sanford: 'That's the last one.'"
Source: De Laguna, Frederica, and McClellan, Catharine. Atna texts, etc., recorded in Copper Center, Alaska, 1958. (Mss.Rec.31);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena dance; Ahtena language; Han language
Date: 1958-08-15

Title: Cordova Dance Song
Identifier(s): audio:7869; APSdigrec_1327; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 35
Description: "Jim McKinley and Martha Jackson identified this as a Tlingit song, although Bill Joe called it Eyak. In 1960 Mentasta and Chistochina people again identified it as Eyak. The words mean 'good time,' and the singers make motions as if paddling a canoe. (de L comments on the tape 'beautiful song.'). Jim and Martha said that this version was wrong, and recorded correct version as [APSdigrec_1329]."
Source: De Laguna, Frederica, and McClellan, Catharine. Atna texts, etc., recorded in Copper Center, Alaska, 1958. (Mss.Rec.31);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Tlingit language; Eyak language
Date: 1958-08-15

Title: Christmas Day, New Years Day
Identifier(s): audio:6770; APSdigrec_1639; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 27
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1960. (Mss.Rec.41);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Social life and customs; Christmas music; New Year music; Ahtena language
Date: 1960-08-14

Title: Mentasta Sam's Sorry Song for Mentasta Chief John, 1918 (his older brother)
Identifier(s): audio:7648; APSdigrec_1510; Recording Number: 19; Program Number: 04
Description: Part of an imaginary potlatch held at Copper Center. Part 1 of 24.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena language; Potlatch--Alaska; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1968-08-15

Title: Phonograph Sorry Song
Identifier(s): audio:6760; APSdigrec_1627; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 15
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1960. (Mss.Rec.41);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Social life and customs; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska; Ahtena language
Date: 1960-08-14

Title: Tanana Boat Song
Identifier(s): audio:7539; APSdigrec_1424; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 22
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Tanacross language; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music
Date: 1968-07-21

Title: Northway Potlatch Song:; Copper Center Singing
Identifier(s): audio:7854; local: APSdigrec_1195; local: 07; local: 03;
Description: ; ;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Upper Tanana language; Potlatch--Alaska;
Date: 1954-08-15

Title: Tlingit or Eyak "Whale Gathering Song":; Copper Center Singing
Identifier(s): audio:7858; local: APSdigrec_1197; local: 07; local: 05;
Description: "Kate Sanford started the song, Bill Joe drumming. (7/23/60 it was explained that the song was sung slowly because Bill Joe had become mixed up). The song has a strongly accented beat; hu hu - and ends with clapping."; ;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Tlingit language; Eyak language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Eyak Indians--Music; Whaling--Alaska--Songs and music;
Date: 1954-08-15

Title: Northway Dancing Song:; Copper Center Singing
Identifier(s): audio:7883; local: APSdigrec_1303; local: 07; local: 11;
Description: "Jim McKinley started this Northway Dancing Song. (Martha Jackson identified this as a mourning song from up-the-line, but others as a dancing song)."; ;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Upper Tanana language;
Date: 1954-08-15

Title: Love Song (probably Eyak):; Copper Center Singing
Identifier(s): audio:7855; local: APSdigrec_1200; local: 07; local: 08;
Description: "Martha Jackson and Bacille George identified it as 'down-the-line,' but the Chistochina people said it was 'up-the-line.'"; ;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Eyak language; Love songs;
Date: 1954-08-15

Title: TcAlali ha hi (drinking song):; Copper Center Singing
Identifier(s): audio:7900; local: APSdigrec_1199; local: 07; local: 07;
Description: "Up-the-Line song (i.e. from upper Copper River or Tanana River. 'Give me some more drink.'"; ;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena language; Drinking songs--Alaska;
Date: 1954-08-15