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Title: Down-the-Line Dance Song "ga la 'aha"
Identifier(s): audio:7656; APSdigrec_1530; Recording Number: 19; Program Number: 24
Description: Part of an imaginary potlatch held at Copper Center. Part 21 of 24.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Tlingit language; Potlatch--Alaska; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music
Date: 1968-08-15

Title: Tenas Charley's Aunt's Love Song
Identifier(s): audio:7564; APSdigrec_1489; Recording Number: 13; Program Number: 19
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: 1968-08-08

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: Interview with Jenny Peters, Jake & Lily Tanzy
Identifier(s): audio:7455; APSdigrec_1373; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 01
Description: Includes discussion of Ahtena vocabulary. Continuation of interview conducted with Jenny Peters in her home. For beginning section, see Related Recording item #1. Includes a rendition of Big Mark's Sorry Song for his son. For another version, see Related Recording item #2.; In English with occasional Ahtena vocabulary.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena language; Ahtena Indians--Folklore; Ahtena Indians--Music; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska; Ahtena Indians
Date: 1968-06-25

Title: Christmas Day song
Identifier(s): audio:7723; APSdigrec_1605; Recording Number: 24; Program Number: 04
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; Christmas music
Date: 1968-08-29

Title: Oscar Ewan's Sorry Song for his son, Gulkana 1964
Identifier(s): audio:7589; APSdigrec_1471; Recording Number: 13; Program Number: 01
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; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1968-07-28

Title: Yo yEga 'ayi
Identifier(s): audio:7758; APSdigrec_1606; Recording Number: 24; Program Number: 05
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
Date: 1968-08-29

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: Titus John's Song about Drunks that act like Muskrats
Identifier(s): audio:7658; APSdigrec_1536; Recording Number: 19; Program Number: 30
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
Date: 1968-08-15

Title: Up-the-Line Song
Identifier(s): audio:7621; APSdigrec_1458; Recording Number: 12; Program Number: 13
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: 1968-08-10

Title: Interview and songs with Andy Brown
Identifier(s): audio:7556; APSdigrec_1402; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 01
Description: An interview in which several songs are sung and explained.; - 1. Tells about "Funny Story, Cook's Inlet" and sings the song. Records two Eyak phrases. - 2. Tlingit Song for resting- 3. Another Tlingit Resting Song.- 4. Tenas Waski, 1917 - Prohibition in Alaska- 5. Tlingit song without words- 6. "Funny Story" song again.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena language; Eyak language; Tlingit language; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; singing
Date: 1968-07-20

Title: Bacile George's Father's (Willow Creek George's) Aunt's Song Rejecting Tom Nealy's Father: "Why don't you keep quiet?"
Identifier(s): audio:7697; APSdigrec_1547; Recording Number: 21; Program Number: 08
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
Date: 1968-08-17

Title: Introduction by FdeL
Identifier(s): audio:7002; APSdigrec_1130; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 18
Description: Recorded at Chistochina Song Fest.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs
Date: 1954-08-20

Title: Tsimshian Walking Song (learned from Tlingit)
Identifier(s): audio:7662; APSdigrec_1524; Recording Number: 19; Program Number: 18
Description: Part of an imaginary potlatch held at Copper Center. Part 15 of 24.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Tsimshian language; Potlatch--Alaska; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music
Date: 1968-08-15

Title: Identification of recording
Identifier(s): audio:7897; APSdigrec_1318; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 26
Description: "The recording of songs 1-12 [APSdigrec_1193 - APSdigrec_1202, APSdigrec_1303 - APSdigrec_1304] was made in the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall, after a political meeting, at which Bruce Kendall of Valdez spoke of Statehood. The meeting was attended by men and women from Copper Center, Gulkana, and Chistochina. About 20 men and 10 women at the most joined in the singing. These included Jim McKinley and Oscar Craig of Copper Center, and Bill Joe and Ralph Sanford of Chistochina. Markle Ewan and two others were from Gulkana. The recording was interrupted by the failure of the power plant. Songs 13-25 [APSdigrec_1305 - APSdigrec_1317] and Side 2, songs 1-9 [APSdigrec_1319 - APSdigrec_1327], were recorded at our cabin, where we managed to get 13 Indians from Chistochina and Gulkana."; Identification at end of tape of prior songs recorded on that tape. (APSdigrec_1193 - APSdigrec_1202, APSdigrec_1303 - APSdigrec_1317)
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
Date: 1954