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Indigenous stories, songs and languages, the cultural treasures of native peoples, are vanishing at an alarming rate. Oral literatures are disappearing as older generations pass on and young people feel the pressure of assimilation into the dominant society through cultural, political and economic colonization and homogenization. Also threatened are the storehouses of ethnobiological knowledge on the healing properties of natural resources, harmonious ways of living with the natural world and time-tested sustainable land management practices.
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The Storyscape Project works with indigenous communities to protect, restore, and revitalize endangered story, song, language, and lands through current ethnographic recordings, the restoration and repatriation of historical audio recordings, and technical assistance for tribes to protect their own cultural legacies.
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For more information please contact
Philip M. Klasky,
Project Director
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The Storyscape Project
Tel (415) 752-8678
email: pklasky@igc.org mknelson@igc.org
FAX (415) 561-6482
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If you want to help
please print-out this Support Form
and mail directly toThe Cultural Conservancy
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Link to National Radio Project Making Contact Program, August 10, 2001 #32-01 "Preserving Songs: Oral Histories and Land Protection"
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Link to National Public Radio's All Things Considered Lost and Found Sound Program, February 25, 2000, "House of Night"
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Please Link to Orion Afield Magazine feature article, "Storyscape: the power of song in the protection of native lands," by Melissa Nelson and Phil Klasky
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