Interview · North Dakota · Jesse Cree · NDNAEU 1 · NDNAEU 2 · NDNAEU 3 · NDNAEU 7
Themes: Kinship & family, Storytelling & oral tradition, Education & learning, Values & generosity, Culture & continuity, Food & plants, Children & young people, Intergenerational learning
Learn About questions
What does the word mythological imply? Would it be more appropriate to call origin and other stories oral narratives rather than myths, tales, or legends?
Protocol may be involved in storytelling: tobacco is offered to a grandfather who usually tells the stories.)
What cultural concepts can be found in storytelling?
Why is it important for young people to hear old stories in this day and age?
Regard for and recognition of elders was stressed in the past. Should they and other values be addressed in current educational systems?
Learn From questions
What have you found to be true and useful in old stories you have heard?
Can you think of a story that served you as a powerful learning tool? Could you tell one?
Are there cultural or family stories will you want to share with your children or youth in the future?
Would you have a protocol for your story telling? For example, there are best times to tell stories (at bedtime, in the winter, etc.).
Transcripts
Tribal Stories and Family Stories with Jesse Cree NDNAEU 1, 2, 3, 7
Watch this interview on YouTubeAnd I’m talking about stories we have like we had like stories that we were told a long time ago and the young people would the people in the family would tell their stories and the people in the family would most likely be the grandfather and the father would also have his stories to tell too but the grandfather would have older stories to tell and that’s where everything came from so well then they had tribal stories and then they had family stories and then they had tribal stories would be about a push now in the Red Lake area or different areas they called a Bush okay well we have people here that were named a push was their real name so a push is some of those older stories that were presented by the tribal people as handed down from the beginning wherever they came from and it’s usually about the creation of the earth about a second Creon let’s see it would be about the last creation of the earth as I understand it the earth was created so many times before but the last creation of the earth involved a push so those stories were passed on to us now and then though the younger people would have to find some way to get ahold tobacco because they were not given tobacco either tobacco was kind of hard to get so they had to get tobacco to give tobacco to their dad or their grandfather to tell him a story or whatever they wanted they give him tobacco
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