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Series contains textual records created or received by Karen J. Clark during her active years, including printer’s copies, published editions and photocopies of her books, personal correspondence, photocopies of newspaper clippings, and teaching materials.

File contains a printer’s copy of the book “Tahltan Native Studies”

File contains a printer’s copy of the Job Cards book and a printed copy of that same book. The book included photographs with different aspects of the Tahltan culture, explanations of them, and related activities for the children.

File contains 31 job cards with a photograph on one side and text on the other side. The photographs include aspects of the Tahltan culture (stories, symbols, people, history, etc.). The texts are divided between: information about the card and a section named “Something to talk over with the Elders.” These job cards were created to be used in class activities and part of their content was eventually introduced in the “Tahltan Native Studies”

Collection consists of ten audio reel tapes and eight audio cassette tapes with recordings of stories, obtained by Karen J. Clark and Tahltan community members in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Along with Tahltan Native Studies Committee members, including Rose Quash, Rachel Joseph, Anne Gleason, and Judy Joseph, Karen J. Clark traveled around the Telegraph Creek area to record stories of the Elders and procure photographs. This work became the "Tahltan Native Studies" book, produced in 1976.

Documentation includes a lists of recordings with tape descriptions, a short biography of Karen J. Clark, and letters and documents related to her awards and publications.

Textual materials include three "Tahltan Native Studies" books, two sets of accompanying job cards, one set of activity cards, one set of photograph cards, and a course outline. The collection also includes the three book set "Sun, Moon and Owl" and the accompanying reading workbook and teacher's guide. "Sun, Moon and Owl" was written by Karen J. Clark, with grant funding from the B.C. Teacher's Federation, and published in 1975.

File contains a published copy of the book “Tahltan Native Studies”, a photocopy of it, the “Course outline Tahltan native Studies, year 1-5” The “Course Outline” presents a photography on the first page with four people in it. Below the photograph, someone added a post-it note with the names of the people.

File contains “Sun, Moon and Owl” book 1, 2, and 3, the “Teacher’s Guide to Sun, Moon, and Owl”, and the “Reading Skills Worksheets for Sun, Moon and Owl books 1, 2 and 3” all written by Karen J. Clark and published in 1974

Series is divided into two sub-series. Subseries A, Interviews, contains materials gathered by the Tahltan Native Studies Committee with information about the Tahltan culture. Subseries B, Class materials, contains recordings made by Karen J. Clark and some of her students as part of class activities or to be used in class

Track 2 (rr_0080_2): Rose Quash, Anne Gleason, Irene Inskter and Karen Clark talking about making jam, medicine practices and giving birth, hunting practices, taking care of babies, the story of the Three Sisters, treating animals right, and Tahltan ceremonies and traditions
Track 4 (rr_0080_4): Rose Quash talking to Anne Gleason and Karen Clark about fishing practices and fish treatment and storage. Irene Inkster talking about Tahltan traditions on using fruits and plants and medicine practices, skin treatment, and moose related stuff.
No content on tracks 1 and 3

Track 1 (rr_0074_1): Interview to Rose Quash, Gibson Quash, and Minnie Creyke where they talk about food procesing, hunting, trapping, and traplines
Track 3 (rr_0074_3): Interview to Ester Knowles where she translates some fruit names and sentences from English to Tahltan, stories about her past and childhood (living "in the bush"), memories about medicinal remedies, stories about Tahltan traditions, and translations of animal and plant names from English to Tahltan
No content on tracks 2 and 4

Track 1 (rr_0076_1): Anne Gleason, Rose Quash, Judy Joseph, and Karen Clark talking about ghosts stories, Tahltan traditions (medicine, death, and frogs), and stories about people they knew
Track 3 (rr_0076_3): Rose Quash, Anne Gleason, Judy Joseph, Irene Inkster, Patty (?), and Karen Clark on how you can catch rabbits, snares, potlatchs, and Opal Ball
No content on tracks 2 and 4

Track 1 (rr_0077_1): Karen Clark interviewing Rose Quash and Anne Gleason and talking about becoming a woman (periods, marriage, and having children)
No content on tracks 2, 3, and 4

Track 1 (rr_0082_1): Talking about Tagodi (?), hunting practices, respect for animals, caring for children, and values
No content on tracks 2, 3, and 4

File contains a biographical sketch of Karen J. Clark, a paper printed photograph of the sewed badge of the Indian Residential School of Lower Post; photocopies of four letters addressed to Mrs. Clark in 1967, 1968, 1972, and 1973, 1981; photocopies of two newspaper clips about Mrs. Clark and/or her classes; two photocopies of the cover of “Sun, Moon and Owl”; a photocopy of the cover of “Tahltan Native Studies”, a photocopy of an advertisement to buy her last books “Language Experiences with Children Stories” and “Once Upon a Time”.

Karen J. Clark with Mark Carlick and Geoffrey Cooper reading from the “Spache diagnostic Reading Scales” in June 1980. The scales are a series of individual reading tests used to evaluate oral and silent reading abilities. During the duration of the tape, Karen J. Clark performs the same test to both children in separate occasions.
Track 1 (cc_0081_a): Karen J. Clark with Mark Carlick
Track 2 (cc_0081_b): Karen J. Clark with Geoffrey Cooper

Track 4 (rr_0075_4): Karen Clark and her students at Lower Post telling and reading stories and rimes and singing in class. Karen Clark singing
Duplicated content on track 2.
No content on tracks 1 and 3

Track 1 (cc_0084_a): JoAnne Dennis (age 14) tells three stories by request of Karen J. Clark: the Old Woman and the Rabbits, the Girl who went to get blueberries, the girls who went to the stars.
Track 2 (cc_0084_b): Karen J. Clark, reads the story of Robbie and the sled dog race marking with a sound whenever she turns the page

Track 1 (rr_0078_4): Karen Clark interviewing August Brown who tells five Tahltan legends as told by different people
Duplicated content on track 3
No content on tracks 1 and 2

Track 4 (rr_0079_4): Karen Clark and her students from Lower Post telling Tahltan legends and stories. Short stories by different children with the Giant Worm Story, stories about Willy Cigar, Charlie McDonald, the Susina legend, and the Nass River Indians among others.
Duplicated content on track 2
No content on tracks 1 and 3

Track 2 (rr_0083_2): John Carlick telling the story of how Crow Brought Daylight and the story of the Three Sisters.
Track 4 (rr_0083_4): Jean Brown telling the story about the Frog, the Woman Who Turned into an Owl, How Crow Got Water and Daylight. Between the stories, she tells Tahltan traditions and her life story, counts from one to thirty, and then to a hundred in tens in Tahltan and English
No content on tracks 1 and 3