Flutes and Stories with Dan Jerome | Elder Voices Archive

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Interview · North Dakota · Dan Jerome · NDNAEU 2 · NDNAEU 3 · NDNAEU 6 · NDNAEU 7

Themes: Kinship & family, Identity & belonging, Storytelling & oral tradition, Culture & continuity, Arts & expression

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Learn About questions

Why is it important to create cultural objects of beauty and function? Which is more important—the finished product or the process of making cultural art? How can creating a functional object such as a soup ladle be considered a work of art? Is “cultural change” appropriate or even necessary in some circumstances? Why would someone be reluctant to share his/her knowledge and skills with another person?

Learn From questions

What skills do I have to develop for a specific hobby or craft-making activity? How can my art-making be a reflection of me and my family traditions? How would I feel if I made something beautiful and then gave it away? Why should I consider trying different ways to create a particular object or is it okay to continue making it the way I always have?

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Flutes and Stories with Dan Jerome NDNAEU 2, 3, 6, 7

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I think the other people have to know who that who we are and that’s what I’ve been trying to do with all these different things and the flutes and so forth make the flutes and I know or what is doing something the same kind of thing in other words give them and they get to appreciate the culture as they as you give them or something from the culture I think the fluid is a beautiful instrument and it should be it should be shared and I like I was mentioning that I must have made oh and is trying to catch up to me I know I don’t know he probably passed me by this time but I made over 300 flutes and I know I given over 200 away so and they’re there in 14 countries how many states I don’t know Canada so forth they’re all over the world

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