May 2012

iishuh ‎‎‎‎‎(WEEK 1)‎‎‎‎‎

(Recorded in 2001 with Chief Marie Smith Jones and Dr. Michael Krauss)

WOW!

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 Tuesday May 1 at 7 pm

Saturday May 19 at 10:00 am

 Tuesday May 29 at 7 pm

WANTED:  VOLUNTEERS

Want to learn more about Eyak while preserving a priceless part of the past?  We are looking for 1 to 5 people who want to transcribe the so-called Lost Eyak Tapes.  These recently repatriated  audio reels have nearly 5 hours of Eyak recorded in 1961 of Marie Smith Jones, Lena Nacktan and Anna Nelson Harry.  The Alaska Native Languages Archive at the University of Alaska- Fairbanks is working on breaking these recordings into smaller clips.  We should have access to them by mid-May.  

email here if you're interested in being part of the preservation team:  eyaklanguageproject@gmail.com

To listen to these raw tapes go to ANLA's website and download the audio files to your computer:

http://www.uaf.edu/anla/collections/eyak/about/
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