Interview · North Dakota · Oliver Gourd · NDNAEU 2
Themes: Storytelling & oral tradition, Education & learning, Values & generosity, Listening & observation
Learn About questions
Why were stories told in the evenings?
Why were stories told over and over even if they had been heard before?
How does repetitiveness help us to learn?
Why is it important to listen?
Learn From questions
What are stories I remember having been told to me when I was a child? What is my favorite story?
What were evenings like for me when I was a child?
Who is a person I think of when I think about the stories that were told to me over time?
Is there something I learned by hearing it told over and over again?
Is it easy for me to “just listen?”
Transcripts
Oliver Gourd- Just Listen, NDNAEU 2
Watch this interview on YouTubeUsed to tell stories in the evenings my auntie tell me a story a dozen times I don’t care I just sit there listen or my uncles I knew what you’re going to say and you know I just know when they start I just patience you learn patience respect and just listen you don’t say oh I heard that before I don’t do that just listen so I heard that’s how they teach us repetitively they tell you these stories over and over so you won’t forget so that’s how a lot of teachings that I received as I went along repetitiveness and I know uh when I come back from Los Angeles and 80s I sit with my auntie me and uh we used to sit there tell television goes long time about 12:00 it need to go off didn’t have satellite or nothing so she us to sit over there and we said to watching TV said we talking tell one of us get up there and turn it off
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NDNAEU document credits: Oliver Gourd — Spirit Lake (Dakota).
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