Tlingit Storytelling with Gene Tagaban/Guuy Yaau
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 3: Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording
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content: 2024 July 1
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content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2024, Item SFF2024_0701_IVA_Amphitheater_0002
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Listening copy available
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content: Michelle Banks (Presenter); Gene Tagaban/Guuy Yaau (storyteller, musician, T'akdeintaan Raven, Freshwater Sockeye Clan/Cherokee/Tlingit/Filipino); Dennis Zotigh (dancer, NMAI cultural specialist, Kiowa/Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo/Isante Dakota Indian) "You are a storyteller.†Your life is a story. Tell a good story." Gene Tagaban/Guuy Yaau (Tlingit/Cherokee/Filipino) tells stories that entertain, teach, and heal. He performs the masked Raven dance. Clever, mischievous Raven is the main character in many stories and teachings of the Northwest Coast.