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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: Frank Charley's Sorry Song for his older brother
Identifier(s): audio:7547; APSdigrec_1404; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 02
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: 1968-07-21

Title: Song by Copper Jack
Identifier(s): audio:7744; APSdigrec_1741; Recording Number: 24; Program Number: 11
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Southern Tutchone language; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music
Date: 1968-08-29

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: 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: Oscar Ewan's Own Sorry Song for his Oldest Son
Identifier(s): audio:7683; APSdigrec_1576; Recording Number: 23; Program Number: 03
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; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1968-08-23

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: Down-the-Line Dance Song
Identifier(s): audio:7613; APSdigrec_1478; Recording Number: 13; 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: 1968-07-28

Title: Identification of recording
Identifier(s): audio:7632; APSdigrec_1500; Recording Number: 15; Program Number: 05
Description: Identificaton of previously recorded items on reel. (APSdigrec_1478 - APSdigrec_1481)
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Mourning customs--United States--Alaska; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music
Date: 1968-08-03

Title: Tcelali Drinking Song:;
Identifier(s): audio:7540; local: APSdigrec_1407; local: 09; local: 05;
Description: ; ;
Subject: Ahtena language; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Drinking songs;
Date: 1968-07-21

Title: U hu 'eye heya
Identifier(s): audio:7733; APSdigrec_1607; Recording Number: 24; Program Number: 06
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: Up-the-Line Drinking Song
Identifier(s): audio:6809; APSdigrec_1653; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 06
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1960. (Mss.Rec.41);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena language; Drinking songs
Date: 1960-08-11

Title: Dance Song, "qaqaqa"
Identifier(s): audio:7646; APSdigrec_1523; Recording Number: 19; Program Number: 17
Description: Part of an imaginary potlatch held at Copper Center. Part 14 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
Date: 1968-08-15

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: How SArani gai made the world [2 of 3]
Identifier(s): audio:6810; APSdigrec_1647; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 02
Description: Primarily in English, with occasional Ahtna.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1960. (Mss.Rec.41);
Subject: Ahtena language; Raven (Legendary character)--Legends; Creation--Mythology; Ahtena Indians--Folklore
Date: 1960-08-11

Title: Copper River, down the line song "iye...he he 'eye"
Identifier(s): audio:7582; APSdigrec_1487; Recording Number: 13; 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; Ahtena language
Date: 1968-08-08

Title: Jim McKinley's Sorry Song for Agnes's Mother, Lower Tonsina 1924, second attempt
Identifier(s): audio:7626; APSdigrec_1497; Recording Number: 15; Program Number: 02
Description: Re-recording of song. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Mourning customs--United States--Alaska; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena language
Date: 1968-08-03

Title: Fred Ewan's Sorry Song for his Mother's Brother (cousin), Gulkana
Identifier(s): audio:7587; APSdigrec_1472; Recording Number: 13; Program Number: 02
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: Song, probably from Chitina (Tlingit)
Identifier(s): audio:7705; APSdigrec_1557; Recording Number: 22; Program Number: 09
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Tlingit language; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music
Date: 1968-08-22

Title: "Ha, Christmas Tree!" Song
Identifier(s): audio:7741; APSdigrec_1604; Recording Number: 24; Program Number: 03
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Christmas trees--Songs and music
Date: 1968-08-29