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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

I will check the numbers but I'm not sure that archival artifacts at
Berkeley are cateloged anywhere but Berkeley in most cases.

Should my cousin get a copy of the tapes, then I'll let you know and you can
send as many tapes as it would take to make copies.

Geez James, you should know me well enough by now to know I wouldn't have 
made an offer if it would be an "above the call of duty" thing <g>

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> Those tapes go high on my 'gotta have' list.  A copy of the tapes would be
> fantastic but it's far above the call of duty.  If you are by the Humboldt
> County library, it would be forever appreciated if you would check to see
> if the
> tapes have a catalong number, library of congress number, etc.  and then I
> can
> request them or a copy through inter-library loan.
>
> I was always suspicious about that 'last speaker died' business.  I can't
> help but imagine there are groups of native speakers all over the country
> who
> say, "So that's what you think.  Good.  Now you are out of the picture."
>
> Nobody permanently occupied the area where I live now during pre-invasion
> times.  But by historical times it was sojourned by the Tsalagi (Cherokee)
> who
> speak an Iriquoian language and by the Shawnee who are Algonquins.  My
> checkered
> pedigree has a whole branch of a family, of all things, called Bush, who
> were
> Cherokee.  Herself's family suddenly took on a racial trait of dark hair
> and
> nearly black eyes some 200 years ago and the geneology has the husband of
> one
> great great grand dame bloted out of family records.  Turns out he was
> Shawnee, of course and no one wanted to own up to it.   One of my sons has
> a haunting
> appearance, he has red hair, freckles, and nearly black eyes.
>
> So things Algonquin (and Algic, to include the western branch) interest
> me.
>
> There is a community not 70 miles from here in Morganton NC where shop
> signs
> and street signs are in English and Cherokee.  I've been there to visit
> but
> could not get anyone to talk with me.  They would smile politely at my
> attempts
> and then go silent.
>
> I'm not even going to try to fathom it.   </HTML>
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