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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 310 961 SO 020 180 AUTHOR Jabbour, Alan, Ed.; Hardin, James, Ed. TITLE Folklife Annual, 1987. INSTITUTION Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. American Folklife Center. REPORT NO ISBN-0-8444-0575-2 PUB DATE 88 NOTE 161p.; For the 1986 edition, see SO 020 179. AVAILABLE FROMSuperintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. PUB TYPE Books (010) -- Historical Materials (060) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC07 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS American Indian Culture; *American Indians; *Artists; Black Culture; *Canada Natives; Cultural Education; *Folk Culture; *Grief; *Korean Americans; Painting (Visual Arts) IDENTIFIERS Folklorists; *Folktales; German Americans; Hupa (Tribe); Native Americans; Russian Americans ABSTRACT This annual publication is intended to promote the documentation and study of the folklife of the United States, to share the traditions, values, and activities of U.S. folk culture, and to serve as a national forum for the discussion of ideas and issues in folklore and folklife. The articles in this collection are: (1) "Eating in the Belly of the Elephant" (R. D. Abrahams), which delves into the differences between Afro-American folktales and European fairy tales;(2) "The Beau Geste: Shaping Private Rituals of Grief" (E. Brady); (3) "George Catlin and Karl Bodmer: Artists among the American Indians" (J. Gilreath); (4) "American Indian Powwow" (V. Brown and B. Toelken); (5) "Celebration: Native Events in Eastern Canada" (4. S. Cronk, et al.);(6) "Reverend C. L. Franklin: Black American Poet-Preacher" (J. T. Titon); (7) "John Henry Faulk: An Interview" (J. McNutt); (8) "The First Korean School of Silver Spring, Maryland" (L. Long); (9) "German-Russian Studies at Emmons Central High School, Strasburg, North Dakota" (T. J. Kloberdanz); (10) "The Hupa Indian Language School of Hoopa Valley, California" (L. Davis); and (11) "The Islamic School of Seattle, Seattle, Washington" (S. Dwyer-Shick). Many black and white and color photographs are included. (JB) ********************************************************************** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * from the original document. *********************************************************************** 1-4 a A. ,4* U S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) hisdocument rias been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it 0 Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality Points of view or opinionsltatud in In is doctr men, do not necessarily r iresent official OEM position or policy ell tre, ,M104,14A,:44.4 " 4'444Ikre "I/ e '4 *a. -*v.44 Now A N N U A 1 9 8 7 A Publication of the AMERICAN FOLKLIFE CENTER AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Edited by Alan Jabbour and James Hardin (1 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON 1988 5 From Public Law 94-201, the American Folk life Pre- servation Act, which created the American Folk life Center in 1976. DECLARATION OF FINDINGS AND PURPOSE SEC. 2 (a) The Congress hereby finds and declares (1) that the diversity inherent in American folklife has contributed greatly to the cultural richness of the Nation and has fostered a sense of individuality and identity among the American people; (2) that the history of the United States effectively demonstrates that building a strong nation does not require the sacrifice of cultural differences; (3) that American folklife has a fundamental influ- ence on the desires, beliefs, values, and character of the American people; (4) that it is appropriate and necessary for the Fed- eral Government to support research and scholarship in American folklife in order to contribute to an understanding of the complex problems of the basic desires, beliefs, and values of the American people in both rural and urban areas; (5) that the encouragement and support of Ameri- can folklife, while primarily a matter for private and local initiative, is also an appropriate matter of con- cern to the Federal Government; and (6) that it is in the interest of the general welfare of the Nation to preserve, support, revitalize, and dissem- inate American folklife traditions and arts. (b) It is therefore the purpose of the Act to estab- lish in the Library of Congress an American Folklife Center to preserve and present American folklife. Designed by Adrianne Onderdonk Dudden Folklife Annual presents a yearly collection of articles on the traditional expressive life and culture in Amer- ica. The articles are written by specialists in folk life and related fields, but the annual is intended fora wide audience. A publication of the American Folklife Cen- Cover: Dancer at the Crow ter at the Library of Congress, Folklife Annual seeks to promote the documentation and study of American Fair in Montana, an annual folklife, share the traditions, values, and activities of powwow, August 1979. American folk culture, and serve as a national forum (MT9-MC27-1) Photo- for the discussion of ideas and issues in folklore and graph by Michael S. Crum- folklife. mett The editors will consider for publication articles on all areas of folklife but are particularly interested in the Title page: Arlee Powwow, folklife of the United States. Manuscripts should be Flathead Reservation, Ar- typewritten, double-spaced, and in accord with the lee, Montana, July .5, 1987. Chicago Manual of Style. Submit to: The Editors, Folklife Annual, American Folklife Center, Library of (FCP-OS-87-ES-16A-8) Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540. Photograph by Edwin For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Schupman, Jr. American U.S. Government Printing Office, Folk life Center, Library of Washington, D.C. 20402 Congress ISBN 0-8444-0575-2 ISSN 0747-5322 6 AMERICAN FOLKLIFE CENTER AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Director Editor ALAN JABBOUR JAMES HARDIN Deputy Director Program Specialist RAY DOCKSTADER LISA OSHINS Folklife Specialists Program Assistant CARL FLEISCHHAUER JENNIFER A. CUTTING MARY HUFFORD DAVID A. TAYLOR Administrative Secretary DORIS CRAIG Folklife Researcher PETER T. BARTIS Contract Specialist MAGDALENA GILINSKY Reference Librarian GERALD E. PARSONS Tel: 202 287-6590 ARCHIVE OF FOLK CULTURE Head Program Specialist JOSEPH C. HICKERSON SEBASTIAN LOCURTO Archivist Staff Assistant MARSHA MAGUIRE ALDONA M. KAMANTAUSKAS JOSEPH Tel: 202 287-5510 BOARD OF TRUSTEES Chairman BRUCE JACKSON WILLIAM L. KINNEY, JR. New York South Carolina JUDITH McCULLOH Vice Chairman Illinois JEANNE GUILLEMIN Massachusetts BARRE TOELKEN Utah RUSSELL W. FRIDLEY Minnesota MARTA WEIGLE New Mexico EX OFFICIO MEMBERS JAMES H. BILLINGTON LYNNE CHENEY Librarian of Congress Chairman, National Endowment for ROBERT McCORMICK ADAMS the Humanities Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ALAN JABBOUR FRANCIS S. M. HODSOLL, JR. Director, American Folklife Center Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts 7 Contents PREFACE 8 Eating in the Belly of the Elephant 10 BY ROGER D. ABRAHAMS Afro-American folktales portray actions and impulses that are often disturbingly different from those in European fairy tales. The Beau Geste: Shaping Private Rituals of Grief 24 BY ERIKA BRADY Private acts sometimes provide more satisfying ways to overcome grief than communal rituals. George Catlin and Karl Bodmer: Artists among the American Indians 34 BY JAMES GILREATH Two nineteenth-century artists made vivid portraits of Indian life in the American West. American Indian Powwow 46 BY VANESSA BROWN AND BARRE TOELKEN The American Indian powwow today strengthens Native-American traditions and passes them on to younger generations. Celebration: Native Events in Eastern Canada 70 BY MICHAEL SAM CRONK, WITH BEVERLEY CAVANAGH AND FRANZISKA VON ROSEN Summer celebrations of Native peoples in eastern Canada express cultural identity, conti- nuity, renewal, and innovation. & Reverend C. L. Franklin: Black American Poet-Preacher 86 BY JEFF TODD TITON Franklin was the great poet-preacher of the chanted sermon. )ohn Henry Faulk: An Interview 106 BY JAMES MCNUTT Early collectors of folklore and song worked against cultural preiudice anda climate of political suspicion. Ethnic Heritage and Language Schools 130 INTRODUCTION Private language schools support a sense of cultural tradition and personal identity for many religious and ethnic communities in the United States. The First Korean School of Silver Spring, Maryland 132 BY LUCY LONG German-Russian Studies at Emmons Central High School, Strasburg, North Dakota 138 BY TIMOTHY ). KLOBERDANZ The Hupa Indian Language School of Hoopa Valley, California 144 BY LEE DAVIS The Islamic School of Seattle, Seattle, Washington 150 1- BY SUSAN DWYER-SHICK CONTRIBUTORS 156 PUBLICATIONS OF THE AMERICAN FOLKLIFE CENTER 158 LI 9 company the article were selected from the Preface Library of Congress collections in the Prints and Photographs Division and the Ameri- can Folklife Center and show powwows on the Crow Reservation in Montana and the Omaha Reservation in Macy, Nebraska. Despite the evolution of Native Ameri- Aphrase in Roger Abrahams's article can gatherings, there are similarities in the on the Afro-American folktale provides a dance and costume depicted in these pho- unifying theme for the 1987 volume of tographs and the images captured in the Folk life Annual: "strategies for survival in paintings of artists George Catlin and Carl a hostile world." Abrahams shows that Bodmer in the nineteenth century. James folktales contain hidden cultural meanings Gilreath of the Library's Rare Book and that go beyond these