Oral Traditions Today

Second Fridays Alaska Native Series focuses on Feb. 9 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. on Oral Traditions Today. Panelists include,

Chief Gary Harrison
International Chair of Arctic Athabaskan Council

Jean Breinig
English Department at UAA

George Charles
National Resource Center for American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Elders

Acting as moderator:
Phyllis Fast
Anthropology Department at UAA

Four general topics on oral tradition can be addressed:

1. What is traditional about your oral traditions today?
2. What is non traditional about your oral traditions today?
3. Why maintain oral traditions?
4. Where will we find oral traditions in the future?

Our goal for the second Fridays Alaska Native Series is to present a diversity of Alaska Native voices and to engage people in open discussions. This event is sponsored by the UAA Campus Bookstore, Residence Life, the Camai Room, Native Student Services and Recruitment and Retention of Alaska Natives into Nursing. For more information contact Rachel Epstein at 786.4782 or Karla Booth at 751.7452.