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Title: Tlingit dance song (ya 'eli ya) with drum
Identifier(s): audio:7482; APSdigrec_1382; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 08
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Tlingit language
Date: 1968-07-19

Title: Tenas Waski song
Identifier(s): audio:7485; APSdigrec_1381; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 07
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Tlingit language
Date: 1968-07-19

Title: Cries for Calico Tug-of-War
Identifier(s): audio:7716; APSdigrec_1573; Recording Number: 22; Program Number: 25
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena language; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Tug of war (Game)
Date: 1968-08-22

Title: Eskaldita's Sleep Doctor Song (no words)
Identifier(s): audio:7569; APSdigrec_1448; Recording Number: 12; Program Number: 03
Description: This recording has been identified as potentially culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Music; Shamanism--Alaska; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music
Date: 1968-07-31

Title: Song Refusing an Old Man (Skookum John)
Identifier(s): audio:7570; APSdigrec_1451; Recording Number: 12; Program Number: 06
Description: This recording has been identified as potentially culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena language
Date: 1968-07-31

Title: Martha's Autobiography: Her Experience Becoming a Sleep Doctor
Identifier(s): audio:7611; APSdigrec_1453; Recording Number: 12; Program Number: 08
Description: Includes a song, probably Tlingit, which she heard in a dream.; This recording has been identified as potentially culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Autobiography; Shamanism--Alaska
Date: 1968-07-31

Title: Big Stickwan's Sleep Doctor Song: "Different People Give It"
Identifier(s): audio:7563; APSdigrec_1447; Recording Number: 12; Program Number: 02
Description: This recording has been identified as potentially culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Music; Shamanism--Alaska; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena language
Date: 1968-07-31

Title: Na'ina (Song Sparrow) Song
Identifier(s): audio:7862; APSdigrec_1331; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 39
Description: "Composed by Martha's mother. 'Song sparrow, shut up! People, talk the right way!" (Don't say mean things.) Maggy Joe later identified this song as composed by her aunt who used to live at Gulkana Airport (Dry Creek village).... Recorded by Jim McKinley (who has reputation of being best singer and dancer at Copper Center) and Martha Jackson, after they had listened to earlier recordings on this reel 8/16/58"
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 language; Sparrows
Date: 1958-08-16

Title: Woman's song: "You're going to see them again." by Martha
Identifier(s): audio:7493; APSdigrec_1377; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 03
Description: An Up-the-Line song. Song was prompted by a Sarani Song recorded in 1954. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena language
Date: 1968-06-30

Title: Engi Song
Identifier(s): audio:6823; APSdigrec_1680; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 07
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; Taboo
Date: 1960-08-25

Title: Up-the-Line Dancing Song
Identifier(s): audio:7597; APSdigrec_1454; Recording Number: 12; Program Number: 09
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena language
Date: 1968-07-31

Title: Victory Song for Cantwell-Valdez Creek War
Identifier(s): audio:7538; APSdigrec_1400; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 05
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena language; Ahtena Indians--Music; War songs
Date: 1968-07-31

Title: Rerecording of Frank Charley's Song for Sanford Charley
Identifier(s): audio:7506; APSdigrec_1397; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 02
Description: A version of Frank Charley's Sorry Song for Sanford Charley, recorded in 1960, is played while Martha Jackson sings with the tape.; For 1960 recording of song, see Related Recording item 1. For transcription of words, see Related Recording item 2.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
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; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1968-07-13

Title: Bacille George's Grandma's Love Song
Identifier(s): audio:7515; APSdigrec_1388; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 14
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena language; Love songs
Date: 1968-07-19

Title: Lucy Adam's Sorry Song for her Son, Tetlin
Identifier(s): audio:7517; APSdigrec_1390; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 16
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Upper Tanana language; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1968-07-19

Title: A different Tlingit song
Identifier(s): audio:7486; APSdigrec_1383; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 09
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Tlingit language
Date: 1968-07-19

Title: Part of Sorry Song for Lucy Adam's son
Identifier(s): audio:7501; APSdigrec_1391; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 17
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Upper Tanana language; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1968-07-19

Title: Martha tells story of her life (redacted)
Identifier(s): audio:24563; local: APSdigrec_1395; local: 06; local: 03
Description: This version has been edited to remove the final 20 minutes of the original recording session, which pertain to restricted culturally sensitive information.
Subject: Ahtena language; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs
Date: 1968-07-12

Title: Tlingit Love Song
Identifier(s): audio:7859; APSdigrec_1336; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 44
Description: "(Beginning was missed.) ... 100, 200 yrs. old.... Recorded by Jim McKinley (who has reputation of being best singer and dancer at Copper Center) and Martha Jackson, after they had listened to earlier recordings on this reel 8/16/58"
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; Tlingit Indians--Music; Love songs
Date: 1958-08-16

Title: First Sorry Song for Chief John
Identifier(s): audio:6793; APSdigrec_1678; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 05
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; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1960-08-25