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Tahltan Native Studies Committee collection
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Class materials

Recordings include materials created by Karen J. Clark to be used in reading classes, materials created by students during Mrs. Clark’s classes, and materials created by Mrs. Clark to track the learning capabilities of students

Doyle Interviews Ricky

As part of what looks like a class exercise, two students (Doyle and Ricky) interview each other about fishing stories, their families and the towns they have lived in. The recordings are mixed with music recordings independent to the class activity. There are interventions from other students saying their names.
Track 1(cc_0083_a)
Track 2 (cc_0083_b)

Interviews

The recordings include interviews with different members of the Tahltan community in which they narrate traditional stories and/or talk about Indigenous traditions and ways of life

John Carlick and Jean Brown on 3 Sisters and How Crow Brought Daylight

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

Legends and Class Lower Post

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

Legends, JoAnne Dennis: Old Woman and the Rabbits, the Girl Who Went to Get Blueberries, the Girls Who Went to the Stars; and Robbie and the Sled Dog Race

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

Lower Post

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

Mark Carlick and Geoffrey Cooper

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

Miscellanea

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”.

Rose Quash, Anne Gleason, Judy Joseph on Dushinas, Ghosts, more on snares, and Opal Ball

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

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