Wonderful people keeping there old ways , big up for Helen Peter's at her age still rocking it, my people do nothing outside my kitchen window a comunity centre unused council have decided to knock it down terrible
I see ppl trying to get in touch with their culture and that is all good; but I think more will be accomplished by leaving the costumes, feathers, dancing... And doing more research; maybe even writing a book about your history...just saying (from an Apache)
Uh, I both lived in Tanana, and also for many years had one of Goyathle's carved canes given to my great-grandad by S.M. Barrett safely in my closet. It is now in a museum. The history of Athabaskans in Alaska is very different from the history of all Apache. I would recommend that you do some reading, as much has been written. When I lived in Alaska, many interior natives had lost much tradional, and being Athabascan, did not have complex religions and customs structures like other language groups/tribes that are alien to Athabasca. (Tlingits are one example of a Native group that is completely different from interior Athabascan Alaska. Tanana was a military fort, and became a hub village with services, like an airport, regional hospital, and home of the first Native rock & roll band to make it in that fantastic state. J.E. Dyche was my great-grandfather, and friend of Barrett's. Steven was Geronimo's chosen biographer (Geronimo was his own autobiographer, but chose Barrett to be his transcriber, and educated Barrett was also a superintendent of instruction in Oklahoma Territory, on the reservation(s).) You Navajo neighbors share more in common than sub-Athabascan Apache. Athabascan Alaska has done much to discover its history since the '60's, and your comments about dancing and feathers make no sense (except to Apaches). Even Apache dancer dress up, but notice that the Tanana Dancers aren't decked out in costumes like most tribes. I studied the history of Southwest Native America at length. Ditto for Native Alaska. Tanana natives pretty lost the last of their culture, until the revival. The whole town was wiped out by a flood in more recent years. Unempoyment pre-pipeline was extremely high, and culture was not complicated, rather, fishwheels, hunt, run the dogs, and live. Potlucks/potlaches were where we sang and danced, and as seen in the video, not fancy. hoo ha hey hey ee yuh teena ley ey ee ya. Ah, hey. #bedonkohe
I'm from az..Dine..u guys y awesome..
proud people. i love you all.
Love how Norman get passionate about his culture!
Wonderful people keeping there old ways , big up for Helen Peter's at her age still rocking it, my people do nothing outside my kitchen window a comunity centre unused council have decided to knock it down terrible
Damn I miss Tanana.
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I miss it two
I am your cousin to the Demientieff, Kaitlynn going back 5-8 grnerations. much love to all my relations. amet(be enlightened)
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I see ppl trying to get in touch with their culture and that is all good; but I think more will be accomplished by leaving the costumes, feathers, dancing... And doing more research; maybe even writing a book about your history...just saying (from an Apache)
Uh, I both lived in Tanana, and also for many years had one of Goyathle's carved canes given to my great-grandad by S.M. Barrett safely in my closet. It is now in a museum. The history of Athabaskans in Alaska is very different from the history of all Apache.
I would recommend that you do some reading, as much has been written. When I lived in Alaska, many interior natives had lost much tradional, and being Athabascan, did not have complex religions and customs structures like other language groups/tribes that are alien to Athabasca. (Tlingits are one example of a Native group that is completely different from interior Athabascan Alaska.
Tanana was a military fort, and became a hub village with services, like an airport, regional hospital, and home of the first Native rock & roll band to make it in that fantastic state.
J.E. Dyche was my great-grandfather, and friend of Barrett's. Steven was Geronimo's chosen biographer (Geronimo was his own autobiographer, but chose Barrett to be his transcriber, and educated Barrett was also a superintendent of instruction in Oklahoma Territory, on the reservation(s).)
You Navajo neighbors share more in common than sub-Athabascan Apache.
Athabascan Alaska has done much to discover its history since the '60's, and your comments about dancing and feathers make no sense (except to Apaches). Even Apache dancer dress up, but notice that the Tanana Dancers aren't decked out in costumes like most tribes.
I studied the history of Southwest Native America at length. Ditto for Native Alaska. Tanana natives pretty lost the last of their culture, until the revival. The whole town was wiped out by a flood in more recent years. Unempoyment pre-pipeline was extremely high, and culture was not complicated, rather, fishwheels, hunt, run the dogs, and live. Potlucks/potlaches were where we sang and danced, and as seen in the video, not fancy.
hoo ha hey hey ee yuh teena ley ey ee ya. Ah, hey.
#bedonkohe
I used to live in tanana for six months