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Show nTUsl)(yjji by CAROLYN GONZALES Lift very Pawnee Voice The music and language of the Pawnee Indians, sea K be Ixard u Great PLra. t seme tribal today a ir elders and Lvan T'Xh.rv a verr.irK;red reus prjieMor a: Okjahcna Scare University. More tiian 10,006 Pawritts lived alor.g Nebraska s North Platte Rrver belort mid-19t- h cholera and srria ll qJerrucs reduced rreir numbers to about 600 by the century. 'Da: ini was rekeartd to Oklahoma, and its sor.gs and language tell into decline. Today, only a hand rui or people can speak Pawnet. Ttxismg learned of this in 998 during a hrxnecxxrung or the Pawnee nation at its about 20 miies from campus. headquarters in nearoy Pawnee. Okla., ''pop. 1 230 Tribal members now numbering abour 2,500 gather every July from all over the celebrate traditvxiJ Pawnee to dance, and music. Song has always been country an imjiorunt pun of Pawnee culture, but Tonsing was told the Pawnees thought the voices of tlieir early singers had been lost He knew better A specialist in music from cultures all over the w orld, Tonsmg liad collected early recordings of those vety Pawnee singers. He offered t'xi Tonsing's interest in music branched into spoken language after he got a call from Maude one of four remaining Chisholm, PILATES? m (lie IS20 Uy program ork in harmori) to Pilaic is now ptofrmonoJ 6am studios heaitli club and unrvmibev ( etebndes a id models m A Very Pawnet Indian elders who speak the tribes ancient tongue fluently, asked if I was trying to make money," on the tapes. Tonsing says. He explained his only interest was in preserving culture. 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The recordings were made from the late 1890s through 1930. Tapping into that collection. Tonsing has made hundreds of copies for tribal members. to the extent that Evan Tonsing has." What is Developed a that was only some 20 miles from my home." In 1999, he found a large collection of Pawnee music at Indiana Universitys Archive of Traditional says it is a remarkable effort. 1 dont know of anyone else who is doing, or has ev er done, repatriation ADVERTISEMENT puh-LAH-tee- knew then that I was being presented with an opportunity to help save a says Tonsing, 64. 'I anted to return to them their intellectual and spiritual property," he says. "Most cf the music I shared w ith my World Music classes was extinct, and there was nothing I could do about it. But 1 could at least try to help preserve a musical culture 1 culture,' Marilyn Graf, an archivist at Indiana University, to make copies, ar his own expense, fcx anyone who wanted them. (pronounced Maude Cladsofcn and Evan Idraasg are working to keep Pawnee ianguafe and tongi aSve. I didnt realize it was so late," Chisholm says. I didnt know there were so few speakers left." (Though eight fluent speakers were living in 1998, four have died since Tonsing began working with Pawnee language classes.) But Evan pointed that out and convinced me I needed to help." Shannon Sletto, 14, attends the classes with her parents. She says a lot of kids aren't interested in the culture. I'd like to learn enough to teach those who are," she says. Tonsing believes Pawnee culture has much to teach modem American society Pawnees, for instance, place a great deal of emphasis on extended family involvement in child rearing and experts say a large part of preserving a culture is saving a language. "Within a generation, many of the languages spoken by small numbers of tribal speakers will be extinct," says Dr. Raymond DeMallie, director of the Indiana University American Indian Studies Research Institute. When this happens, we lose an entire way of seeing the world and a diversity of vision and wisdom accumulated over centuries." Chisholm says Tonsings energy and enthusiasm have won him many Pawnee friends. He's taken up the Indian way faster than any white man Ive even seen, and hes been a tremendous help to our people, she says. Evan has found his religion." 2 Carolyn Gonzales is c'AML' Nwnd SmScaocn Sic. OmrnlOftcc S Commem Wret iScX4c NY IIH1 a freelance uriter in Stillwater, Okla. |