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Title: Athabaskan Drinking Song
Identifier(s): audio:6915; local: APSdigrec_1011; local: 02; local: 11
Description: Recording ends with identification of this song and the previously recorded song. See Related Recording.; Collector identifies words of song as being Athabascan and having been given by Indians at Klukshu to cInkuqedi. The specific Athabascan language is not identified. Most likely Southern Tutchone.
Subject: Southern Tutchone language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Drinking songs--Alaska; Athapascan Indians--Alaska--Music; Athapascan languages
Date: 1954-06-10

Title: Robertson
Identifier(s): audio:2981; APSdigrec_0551; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 01
Description: Narrative about a white man named Robertson who lived in the Nemaiah Valley, British Columbia. Includes conversation in English.; Recorded as part of research funded by an APS Phillips Fund grant.
Source: Dinwoodie, David. Verbs of Saying in Chilcotin Historical Narratives, 1992. (Mss.Rec.257);
Subject: Athapascan languages; Chilcotin language; Chilcotin Indians--History; Chilcotin Indians--Social life and customs; Indians of North America--British Columbia; Agriculture--British Columbia
Date: 1992-10-03

Title: Practice singing of Thunderbird Origin Song
Identifier(s): audio:6839; APSdigrec_0599; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 01
Description: "Prompted by F de Laguna, Minnie Johnson explains the machine to Frank Italio. Whistle at 1:04 minutes. Frank Italio starts to explain in Tlingit about gò.snA', the little boy who was lost and rescued by the Thunderbirds, when he is interrupted at 1:20 to 1:25 minutes by the entrance of Mrs. Annie Johnson. Begins singing mourning song for gosnA' at 2:30 minutes, and is interrupted by Minnie at 3:40 to 3:45 minutes. Ends singing at 4:22 minutes. Frank and Minnie and Annie talk. There is a reference to the Tlingit language; laughter at 5:00 minutes; reference to yatqwan XEnaX (old people's language); an argument from 6 to 6:30 minutes. At 6:50 Minnie Johnson tells F de Laguna 'Shut it off.' Machine is stopped."; Frank Italio also identified as "CAnkukedi (or dakAstina) 'Thunderbird Clan.')"
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Eyak language; Athapascan languages; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Arguments; Thunderbird (Legendary character)--Legends; Tlingit Indians--Folklore; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska; Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit mythology
Date: 1952-07-30