How_we_grew_up_in_Deline_1__Part_2

• Other Authors: Modeste
• Format: Audio
• Language: unknown
• Published: The Language Archive, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
• Subjects: North Slavey language; Slavey; North; Canada; North Slavey
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1839/58FC578F-85AE-461E-BE67-272323705208

This is a lively conversation with a lot of laughter and rich gestural data between Fibbie Tatti and Jane Modeste. They share different stories from their childhood in Délı̨nę. A list of the topics covered in the conversation can be found below. This part of the conversation has not been transcribed and translated yet. Topics covered in the conversation talking about dances - had to take younger sisters, school concert for Christmas at church or mission or school, how they took care of dogs, how dark it was, attend church at 7 every evening, how they used to visit each other all the time, bringing prophet Naidzo to church, first truck in town, had a trailer on the back, kids were on there, one kid fell down, talking about breakfast program at the school - protein biscuits– too hard, soaked them in water, cooked on both sides with lard and jam, happiness, fun laughter between people, no gossip in the houses – Dene Law, no alcohol out on the land, in 60ties, 70ties – not TV or radio, only at big events like Christmas, learned from different families and elders (making dry fish, sewing), play cards on Friday night, they knew that kids were save, everybody had something for us to do, used to sew at night in candle light, sliding down at different areas, huge snow drifts that are not there anymore, sometimes up do the side of the houses, borrowed sledge from elders (used it for wood), introduction of Halloween, used to jump from ice piece to ice piece at break up