Scope and Contents: This collection is comprised of recordings and translated transcriptions that were the outcome work a National Science Foundation award no. 0554163, administered by the Sealaska Heritage Institute, and initiated and carried to completion by linguist Keri Edwards Eggleston. The objective of the grant was to document, transcribe and translate new audio/visual recordings of Tlingit speakers conversing and telling traditional stories in the Tlingit language, and to find existing audio recordings in the Tlingit language to edit which interested the project’s colleagues comprised of Edwards Eggleston, Alice Taff, James Crippen, Hans Chester, Richard Dauenhauer and Tlingit Elders, including Anita Lafferty, Johnny Marks, June Pegues, Helen Sarabia, Nora Dauenhauer, David Katzeek, Paul Marks and George Davis. The recordings date from 1972 to 2010.
This collection is important for significantly expanding the quite scant available texts transcriptions and translations in the Tlingit language, and for contributing an almost completely unexamined aspect of the Tlingit language; everyday, colloquial, conversational speaking. Beginning, intermediate and advanced students will be able to mine the texts for many phrases and to begin to understand how Tlingit speakers think through the language. The story also contributes to the extant Tlingit oral literature, including stories from Robert Zuboff, Andrew Johnnie, Austin Hammond and George Davis (of the T’akhdeintaan, not either of the two previous tradition bearers also named George Davis, of the Deisheetaan and L’uknaxh.ádi).
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