Opening Song: First People's Welcome
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2017 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2017 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 4: On The Move / 4.3: Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2017 June 29
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2017, Item SFF2017_0629_OTM_Story_Circle_0001
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Listening copies available
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content: Sebi Tayac (presenter); Dennis and Ralph Zotigh; Gabi and Sebi Tayac ;We open with a welcoming ceremony from the Piscataway Indian Nation, on whose ancestral land this festival takes place, with songs and words from the Native community. This practice of welcoming and opening space in an indigenous way sets the stage for us to bring together diverse migrants, from the earliest settlers and slaves to the most recent immigrant communities. Participants in this session include Dennis and Ralph Zotigh and Gabi and Sebi Tayac.