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Title: Drinking Song
Identifier(s): audio:6842; APSdigrec_0598; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 08
Description: "Minnie Johnson says a few words.... Minnie Johnson sings drinking song, using the banjo as drum, but forgetting to hold down the strings... Whistle.... Jack Reed is urged to sing too, but refuses.... Minnie Johnson translates the song...."
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Drinking songs--Alaska
Date: 1952-07-04

Title: Tenas Waski Drinking Song, Chinook Jargon
Identifier(s): audio:7051; APSdigrec_1095; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 08
Description: "This song is believed to be Tlingit. Joe's uncle, Nikolai, used to drink and sing this song. He would pour liquor into the mouths of dancers as they danced passed him."; Recording concludes with identification of this song and the three preceding ones by Frederica de Laguna. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Chinook jargon; Drinking songs--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-07-13

Title: Athabaskan Drinking Song
Identifier(s): audio:6909; APSdigrec_1010; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 10
Description: A song from Klukwan, first heard by the singer in 1914.; This song is identified by Frederica de Laguna and the end of the subsequently recorded song. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Athapascan Indians--Alaska--Music; Drinking songs--Alaska
Date: 1954-06-10

Title: Drinking Song of Clarence Peterson, to tl'uknaXAdi-yAtx'i
Identifier(s): audio:6900; APSdigrec_1000; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 12
Description: Ends with identification of song and previous song by Frederica de Laguna.; Charley White explains in Tlingit that the composer of the song, who died in 1941, was addressing his wife.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Drinking songs--Alaska
Date: 1954-04-09

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: TcAlali ha hi (drinking song):; Copper Center Singing
Identifier(s): audio:7900; local: APSdigrec_1199; local: 07; local: 07;
Description: "Up-the-Line song (i.e. from upper Copper River or Tanana River. 'Give me some more drink.'"; ;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena language; Drinking songs--Alaska;
Date: 1954-08-15

Title: Up-the-Line tcElali Whiskey Song:;
Identifier(s): audio:6991; local: APSdigrec_1131; local: 09; local: 19;
Description: Recorded at Chistochina Song Fest.; ;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena language; Drinking songs--Alaska;
Date: 1954-08-20

Title: Northway "Muskrat" Drinking Song:;
Identifier(s): audio:6994; local: APSdigrec_1144; local: 09; local: 32;
Description: "Bill Joe introduces the song. It was composed by Titus John, former husband of Lucy (Albert??). 'When I'm drunk I act like a muskrat, go around collecting grass.' There is also said to be a reference to an outboard motor on a lake."; Recorded at Chistochina Song Fest.;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Drinking songs--Alaska; Muskrat;
Date: 1954-08-20

Title: Up the Line Drinking Song (Tcecali)
Identifier(s): audio:6998; APSdigrec_1096; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 09
Description: Recording identified by Frederica de Laguna at end of subsequently recorded song. See Related Recording.
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; Ahtena language; Drinking songs--Alaska
Date: 1954-07-14

Title: Give me a Drink - Up-the-line, Tanacross, Song
Identifier(s): audio:7896; APSdigrec_1337; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 45
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; Tanacross language; Drinking songs--Alaska
Date: 1958-08-28

Title: Adam Sanford's Drinking Song:;
Identifier(s): audio:6992; local: APSdigrec_1143; local: 09; local: 31;
Description: A song composed in imitation of a drunken man trying to use big words. The song is introduced by the singer in English and "Athabaskan"--most likely Southern Tutchone.; Recorded at Chistochina Song Fest.;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena language; Drinking songs--Alaska;
Date: 1954-08-20

Title: Chalali Whisky Song
Identifier(s): audio:7034; APSdigrec_1089; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 02
Description: A dancing song, to which men and women dance in a circle. May come from Copper Center. Words mean, 'Put the whisky in the cup.'; Recording identified by Frederica de Laguna at end of subsequently recorded song. See Related Recording.
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; Ahtena language; Whiskey; Drinking songs--Alaska; Ahtena dance
Date: 1954-07-12

Title: Fanny Stanfield
Identifier(s): audio:7845; APSdigrec_1183; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 02
Description: "No. 1. Copper River Song. (While singing, Harry Johns made her laugh). Her father & mother sang it long ago. No. 2. SARani (Crow) and nAlbei (Seagull) dance song. They are supposed to be eating a dead man. This song is supposed to be from Cordova, perhaps Eyak, Fanny suggested. One person lies on the floor, and then the sARani come first to eat the dead person. Then another one comes. All sARani (crows), I guess. q'ax qax! they say. Two people dance and eat the dead person, act just like sARani. When we dance you should see them. Some man jump around - just like he flying - jump all over dead man. Dead man, he just laying down, never say nothing. [The same song is on Reel 7, Side 1, no. 12, 8/15/58. variously identified as a seagull song, or as a song referring to both crow and seagull. May be Tlingit.] No. 3. Fanny began another song, but interrupted herself. No. 4. Burst into favorite drinking song...'tcelali'."; Copper River Song -- SARani (Crow) and nAlbei (Seagull) dance song -- Interrupted song -- Drinking Song
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; Ahtena language; Ahtena dance; Drinking songs--Alaska
Date: 1958-07-11

Title: Long Lucy John's Drinking Song:;
Identifier(s): audio:7072; local: APSdigrec_1134; local: 09; local: 22;
Description: Recorded at Chistochina Song Fest.; ;
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Social life and customs; Tanacross language; Drinking songs--Alaska;
Date: 1954-08-20