Oral Traditions

[uphamtimothy]

"Wae akwe" -- "Greetings" in Tlingit. We must pay tribute to Richard and Nora Dauenhauer, who had written and published volumes upon volumes of Tlingit oral traditions. These volumes are in both English and Tlingit, and if they were not written down they could have been lost. She is Tlingit, and he is Euro-American, but what they have done needs to be replicated with other indigenous languages. For keeping alive these oral traditions, is keeping alive a culture.

[Kaadaanaka]

kewl! That was my grandmother speaking, and my cousin was dancing also.

[tlingitgurlz]

i was in that dance group!!!