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Title: Big Stickwan's Sleep Doctor Song
Identifier(s): audio:7575; APSdigrec_1475; Recording Number: 13; Program Number: 05
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; Shamanism--Alaska
Date: 1968-07-28

Title: Old Ewan's Sleep Doctor Song
Identifier(s): audio:7591; APSdigrec_1450; Recording Number: 12; Program Number: 05
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: Chief Andrew's Sleep Doctor Song: "Rich woman comes into your house"
Identifier(s): audio:7666; APSdigrec_1540; Recording Number: 21; Program Number: 01
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.; Begins with introduction to recording session by Frederica de Laguna.
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; Shamanism--Alaska
Date: 1968-08-17

Title: Martha Jackson
Identifier(s): audio:7839; APSdigrec_1186; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 03
Description: "Martha Jackson recorded several sleep doctor's (shaman's) songs, requesting us not to play them around Copper Center or Chistochina."; "1. Martha Jackson repeated sARani yAngadi song, using a drum, but apparently started it differently. [See Related Recording.] -- 2. Christian Sleep Doctor Song, also used by Gakona George. (Martha used a drum.)"; 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, and McClellan, Catharine. Atna texts, etc., recorded in Copper Center, Alaska, 1958. (Mss.Rec.31);
Subject: Ahtena language; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena Indians--Music; Shamanism--Alaska; Potlatch--Alaska; Ahtena Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1958-08-16

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: Martha Jackson
Identifier(s): audio:7840; APSdigrec_1185; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 02
Description: "Martha Jackson recorded several sleep doctor's (shaman's) songs, requesting us not to play them around Copper Center or Chistochina."; "1. sARani yAngadi (Crow-sunrise region) doctor's song. Originally used by Harry John's father, who was Martha's mother's 'father's brother.' Sung withoug a drum. Version with drum is on Side 2, 1. -- 2. Sleep doctor's Thunder (lt'Eni) Song. Originally used by Old Nicolai of Chitina. Also sung by Joe Nicolai, Martha's mother's cousin. It should be sung with a drum. -- 3. Gakona George's Sleep Doctor's Song. He was Martha's mother's brother. (Martha used a drum.) -- 4. A second song belonging to Gakona George, also shaman's song."; 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, and McClellan, Catharine. Atna texts, etc., recorded in Copper Center, Alaska, 1958. (Mss.Rec.31);
Subject: Ahtena language; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena Indians--Music; Shamanism--Alaska; Potlatch--Alaska; Ahtena Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1958-08-16

Title: Identification of recording
Identifier(s): audio:7885; APSdigrec_1189; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 06
Description: Frederica de Laguna identifies contents of recordings on Reel 4. See Related Recordings.
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; Shamanism--Alaska; Potlatch--Alaska; Ahtena Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1958

Title: Sleep Doctor's Song
Identifier(s): audio:6832; local: APSdigrec_1670; local: 08; local: 16
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; Shamanism--Alaska
Date: 1960-08-27

Title: Shaman's Money Song:;
Identifier(s): audio:7074; local: APSdigrec_1161; local: 10; local: 15;
Description: "The song was composed by a wudjicyu gyEnin, shaman, who knew how to make money come down from above. He sold it to his gya'znE' (apposite), the nAltsina chief of Gulkana for lots of cloth, a muzzle-loader, and dentalia. Then the original composed could no longer sing it.... 'Dance too much...Stand up and singing' are spoken in Tanacross language after the song." Recorded at Chistochina Song Fest.; 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.;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Tanacross language; Ahtena language; Shamanism--Alaska;
Date: 1954-08-22

Title: Martha Jackson
Identifier(s): audio:7842; APSdigrec_1187; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 04
Description: Spinster Song -- Andy Brown's potlatch song -- Tabooed Wolf Hunting Song -- Martha's MoMoBro's Potlatch song for his dead brother -- Martha's MomoBro's second song for his dead brother -- Martha Jackson's own Shaman song; 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, and McClellan, Catharine. Atna texts, etc., recorded in Copper Center, Alaska, 1958. (Mss.Rec.31);
Subject: Ahtena language; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena Indians--Music; Shamanism--Alaska; Potlatch--Alaska; Ahtena Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Hunting songs
Date: 1958-08-27

Title: Martha Jackson
Identifier(s): audio:7875; APSdigrec_1188; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 05
Description: Ground Squirrel Hunting Song -- Similar Song -- Dance Song; 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, and McClellan, Catharine. Atna texts, etc., recorded in Copper Center, Alaska, 1958. (Mss.Rec.31);
Subject: Ahtena language; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena Indians--Music; Shamanism--Alaska; Potlatch--Alaska; Ahtena Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Hunting songs
Date: 1958-09-01

Title: Songs and conversation at Chistochina, Alaska, July 22, 1960 [2 of 2]
Identifier(s): audio:6754; APSdigrec_1609; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 02
Description: Songs, discussion of songs, and conversation. Kate Sanford is the main singer and drummer.; - Sleep doctor's song- Sleep doctor's song- Gakona shaman song- Good-by Song- Alaska Song
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; Shamanism--Alaska; Statehood (American politics)--Songs and music
Date: 1960-07-22