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• Title: Forty Years on.
• Author : Journal of the Southwest
• Release Date : January 22, 2005
• Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 161 KB

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In the 1960s, the social climate of the United States shifted toward an unprecedented awareness of minority populations. It was against this backdrop that the Doris Duke American Indian Oral History Program was initiated for the purpose of recording Native American oral history. Two things set this project apart from previous work: (1) from the outset, the goal was to record the Native Americans' view of their own history; and (2) all materials were to be returned to the tribes, if possible. Both of these criteria were new and reflective of the times, showing a sensitivity to minority needs. Unlike most other oral history projects that have received private funding, this one has retained the name of its benefactor, Doris Duke, a wealthy heiress of considerable repute. Thus, it is most commonly referred to as the Doris Duke Program. With the passage of nearly forty years, the voices of both those recorded and those who did the recording have increased in value. Fieldwork in oral history, at the time that this project was conceived, was in its infancy; those participating were defining the field itself in many ways. As Professor Edward Bruner, one of the early architects of the Doris Duke Program, noted, "It's possible that in the next 50 years the whole character of American Indian life will change completely.... And these things that we've gathered in this period could have significance beyond which any of us could imagine" (Brunet 1970:14; see also Repp's paper in this volume). With the completion of this volume, I can safely say that the bookends of my professional career have largely been constructed from the fabric of the Doris Duke Program. As a young graduate student in anthropology in the late 1960s, I was yearning for a chance to do fieldwork when funding from the Doris Duke Program was announced in a seminar I was attending. The seminar dealt with field methods related to Native American languages; I was given the impression that University of Arizona was interested in collecting oral history, which would include linguistic data from groups whose languages were dying. There were, as I recall, twelve tribes whose languages were in this category in the state of Arizona alone; I chose to work with one of them, the Mohave, who lived on the Colorado River Indian Reservation in Parker, Arizona.

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