a_s1576_t82-052 | Alice and Robert Osceola interview for the Seminole Slide Tape Project | Sound | Basket maker Needleworkers Dollmakers Fieldwork Native Americans Ethnicity, Seminole Seminole Indians Basket making Interviewing Interviews Sound recordings Sweetgrass baskets Oral histories Life histories Family history Palmetto weaving Plants | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Alice and Robert Osceola interview for the Seminole Slide Tape Project
- Date
- 1981-11-19
- Description
- One reel to reel. The Osceolas discuss basket making - - including when and how they learned the craft; patterns and designs; the choice of colors and materials (usually pine needles and/or palmetto fronds); teaching the young; selling baskets; and the basketry process. The recordings were created for the Florida Folklife Program's Seminole Slide and Tape Project, a program sponsored by the American Express Company in 1982-1983 to create two educational slide/tape programs for use by schools, community groups, and other educational outlets. One program dealt with sweetgrass basket making; the other on traditional Seminole patchwork. Recordings of the finished program tapes can be found in S 1576, Box 10. Teacher guides, program scripts, and documentation of the project can be found in S 1595, Box 1.
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a_s1576_44_d95-022 | Friday performances at the 1995 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 7) | Sound | Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Singing Folk singers Ethnicity, Seminole Seminole Indians Guitar music Native Americans Mikasuki language Personal experience narratives Singers Guitarist Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
a_s1576_t84-123 | Interview with Agnes Cypress | Sound | Healer Fieldwork Interviews Sound recordings Oral histories Native Americans Ethnicity, Seminole Seminole Indians Indian reservations Mikasuki language Alternative medicine Medicine Natural medicine | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Agnes Cypress
- Date
- 1984-03-27
- Description
- Two reel to reels. Agnes was the daughter of Seminole Susie Billie, a medicine woman. She discusses medicine; medical treatment on reservations; learning traditional medicine; Green Corn Dance; role of women in medicine; dreams; burial practices; various cures; hair styles; Mikasuki language; and crafts. The Seminole Video Project was a joint project between the Florida Folklife Program and WFSU-TV. Completed in Spring 1984, and financed by a Florida Endowment for the Humanities grant with the support of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the project culminated in a thirty-minute documentary entitled "Four Corners of the Earth" which profiled Ethel Santiago, a Seminole craftswoman and Tribal representative. The program addressed such issues as cultural retention within contemporary society; the role of women in Seminole society; traditional Seminole foods, arts, and medicine; and the changing emphasis on clan affiliations. The project covered Seminoles on the Big Cypress and Hollywood Reservations and at Immokalee, Florida. Raw video footage, along with the finished product, can be found in S 1615, V84-16 through V-84-24. Images from the project can be found in S 1577, v. 23, slides S83-2994 - S83-3020.
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a_s1576_t84-120 | Interview with Carol Cypress | Sound | Fieldwork Interviews Sound recordings Ethnicity, Seminole Seminole Indians Native Americans Politics and culture Stick ball Ball games Leisure Indian Americans Food preparation Food habits Material culture Family history Bingo Education Sewing Religion Beliefs and cultures Women | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Carol Cypress
- Date
- 1983-08-10
- Description
- Three reel to reels (also copied onto C84-112/114). Cypress talks about Seminole culture. She discusses the role of television; Mikasuki language; the effect of drainage canals on leisure activities; air conditioning; healers; marriages; parental discipline; food such as sofke and coontie palm; stick ball game; influence of Western society upon Seminole culture; education; drug use on reservations; lullabies; traditional songs; and basket making. The Seminole Video Project was a joint project between the Florida Folklife Program and WFSU-TV. Completed in Spring 1984, and financed by a Florida Endowment for the Humanities grant with the support of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the project culminated in a thirty-minute documentary entitled "Four Corners of the Earth" which profiled Ethel Santiago, a Seminole craftswoman and Tribal representative. The program addressed such issues as cultural retention within contemporary society; the role of women in Seminole society; traditional Seminole foods, arts, and medicine; and the changing emphasis on clan affiliations. The project covered Seminoles on the Big Cypress and Hollywood Reservations and at Immokalee, Florida. Raw video footage, along with the finished product, can be found in S 1615, V84-16 through V-84-24. Images from the project can be found in S 1577, v. 23, slides S83-2994 - S83-3020.
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a_s1576_t81-084 | Interview with David Motlow | Sound | Fieldwork Native Americans Ethnicity, Seminole Seminole Indians Florida history Interviewing Interviews Sound recordings Mikasuki language Oral histories Life histories Beliefs and cultures Basket maker Needleworkers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with David Motlow
- Date
- 1981-09-01
- Description
- Two reel to reels. (Copied onto C81-55 and C81-56.) Interview with Seminole cultural program administrator Motlow about Seminole heritage and history. They discuss Seminole folklore; tribal healers; teaching heritage to new generations; differences between Mikasuki (Miccosukee) and Seminoles; patchwork; doll making; and native languages (Muskogee and Miccosukee). Also includes the start of an interview with Jim Billie. The recordings were created for the Florida Folklife Program's Seminole Slide and Tape Project, a program sponsored by the American Express Company in 1982-1983 to create two educational slide/tape programs for use by schools, community groups, and other educational outlets. One program dealt with sweetgrass basket making; the other on traditional Seminole patchwork. Recordings of the finished program tapes can be found in S 1576, Box 10. Teacher guides, program scripts, and documentation of the project can be found in S 1595, Box 1.
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a_s1576_t84-127 | Interview with Ethel Santiago on Seminole cooking and food | Sound | Fieldwork Documentary videos Interviews Ethnicity, Seminole Seminole Indians Indian reservations Native Americans Food preparation Cooking and dining Demonstrations Seminole cookery Corn Bread Fireplaces Fire Religious rites Cypress Oak Pots Storytelling Clans Cookware Cookery (Corn) Boiling (Cookery) Beliefs and cultures Cooks | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Ethel Santiago on Seminole cooking and food
- Date
- 1984
- Description
- Three reel to reels. Santiago discuss and demonstrates Seminole cooking. She discusses fry bread, sofkee, clan systems, proper creation and maintenance of log fireplaces (use cypress and oak), boiling, proper welcoming of guests, role of men and women and children in food preparation, cooking training, use of corn, cooking in different weather, use of fire, and stories/beliefs connected with cooking. The Seminole Video Project was a joint project between the Florida Folklife Program and WFSU-TV. Completed in Spring 1984, and financed by a Florida Endowment for the Humanities grant with the support of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the project culminated in a thirty-minute documentary entitled "Four Corners of the Earth" which profiled Ethel Santiago, a Seminole craftswoman and Tribal representative. The program addressed such issues as cultural retention within contemporary society; the role of women in Seminole society; traditional Seminole foods, arts, and medicine; and the changing emphasis on clan affiliations. The project covered Seminoles on the Big Cypress and Hollywood Reservations and at Immokalee, Florida. Raw video footage, along with the finished product, can be found in S 1615, V84-16 through V-84-24. Images from the project can be found in S 1577, v. 23, slides S83-2994 - S83-3020.
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a_s1576_t84-130 | Interview with Ethel Santiago on Seminole healing and stories | Sound | Healer Storytellers Fieldwork Documentary videos Interviews Ethnicity, Seminole Seminole Indians Indian reservations Native Americans Alternative medicine Medicine & culture Demonstrations Natural medicine Healers Herbs Flora Plants Fire Religious rites Beliefs and cultures Animal tales Trickster tales Storytelling Fables | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Ethel Santiago on Seminole healing and stories
- Date
- 1984
- Description
- Four reel to reels. Santiago discusses healing, medicine, gathering herbs, types of medicinal herbs used, healing training, gender roles, proper bahvior for Seminole women, trickster stories (rabbit stories), fire origin stories, the Green Corn Dance, and uses of fire. The Seminole Video Project was a joint project between the Florida Folklife Program and WFSU-TV. Completed in Spring 1984, and financed by a Florida Endowment for the Humanities grant with the support of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the project culminated in a thirty-minute documentary entitled "Four Corners of the Earth" which profiled Ethel Santiago, a Seminole craftswoman and Tribal representative. The program addressed such issues as cultural retention within contemporary society; the role of women in Seminole society; traditional Seminole foods, arts, and medicine; and the changing emphasis on clan affiliations. The project covered Seminoles on the Big Cypress and Hollywood Reservations and at Immokalee, Florida. Raw video footage, along with the finished product, can be found in S 1615, V84-16 through V-84-24. Images from the project can be found in S 1577, v. 23, slides S83-2994 - S83-3020.
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a_s1576_t81-118 | Interview with Linda and Paul Bowers | Sound | Needleworkers Fieldwork Ethnicity, Seminole Seminole Indians Native Americans Interviews Oral histories Patchwork Festivals Sewing Indian reservations Food habits Mikasuki language Chickee Alligators Food preparation | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Linda and Paul Bowers
- Date
- 1981-10-24
- Description
- Two reel to reels. (Copied onto audio cassettes C81-89 and C81-90.) The Bowers discuss sewing machines; patchwork; how they learned to sew traditional Seminole patterns; designs; clothing; life in Big Cypress Seminole Indian reservation; sofke; fry bread; native languages; chickees; the Green Corn Dance; male initiation rites; and cooking/eating alligators. The recordings were created for the Florida Folklife Program's Seminole Slide and Tape Project, a program sponsored by the American Express Company in 1982-1983 to create two educational slide/tape programs for use by schools, community groups, and other educational outlets. One program dealt with sweetgrass basket making; the other on traditional Seminole patchwork. Recordings of the finished program tapes can be found in S 1576, Box 10. Teacher guides, program scripts, and documentation of the project can be found in S 1595, Box 1.
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a_s1576_t82-044 | Interview with Mildred Tommie (with Sally May Hall interpreting) | Sound | Fieldwork Native Americans Ethnicity, Seminole Seminole Indians Patchwork Interviewing Interviews Sound recordings Sewing Oral histories Life histories Family history Food habits Clothing and dress Beliefs and cultures Needleworkers Tailors | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Mildred Tommie (with Sally May Hall interpreting)
- Date
- 1982-01-29
- Description
- Two reel to reels. Tommie discusses (through Hall) patchwork sewing including when and how she learned the craft; patterns and designs; the choice of colors and fabrics; clothing styles; patchwork designs; and sewing machines. She also describes her childhood; her family; the Seminole drink sofke; childhood stories; differences between Creek and Seminole peoples; hair styles; and Seminole healing. The recordings were created for the Florida Folklife Program's Seminole Slide and Tape Project, a program sponsored by the American Express Company in 1982-1983 to create two educational slide/tape programs for use by schools, community groups, and other educational outlets. One program dealt with sweetgrass basket making; the other on traditional Seminole patchwork. Recordings of the finished program tapes can be found in S 1576, Box 10. Teacher guides, program scripts, and documentation of the project can be found in S 1595, Box 1.
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a_s1576_t84-118 | Interview with Pat Diamond | Sound | Secretaries Fieldwork Interviews Sound recordings Ethnicity, Seminole Seminole Indians Native Americans Politics and culture Stick ball Ball games Leisure Indian Americans Politicians Tourism Material culture Family history Bingo Education Sewing Religion Beliefs and cultures Women | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Pat Diamond
- Date
- 1983-08-10
- Description
- Two reel to reels (also copied onto C84-111/112). Diamond, a secretary to Seminole Chairman Jim Billie, discusses culture on Seminole reservations. Topics include native languages; expanding reservation land; marrying non-Indians; teaching culture to children; reservation and tribal politics; role of women in tribal politics; recent reservation projects; changes that bingo has brought to the reservations; cattle ranching; selling traditional crafts; role of television in Seminole lives; medicine; cultural identification; stick ball games; and tourism. The Seminole Video Project was a joint project between the Florida Folklife Program and WFSU-TV. Completed in Spring 1984, and financed by a Florida Endowment for the Humanities grant with the support of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the project culminated in a thirty-minute documentary entitled "Four Corners of the Earth" which profiled Ethel Santiago, a Seminole craftswoman and Tribal representative. The program addressed such issues as cultural retention within contemporary society; the role of women in Seminole society; traditional Seminole foods, arts, and medicine; and the changing emphasis on clan affiliations. The project covered Seminoles on the Big Cypress and Hollywood Reservations and at Immokalee, Florida. Raw video footage, along with the finished product, can be found in S 1615, V84-16 through V-84-24. Images from the project can be found in S 1577, v. 23, slides S83-2994 - S83-3020.
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