More travels. No time for course work. Thus I fall further and further befind. Still wishing I could participate in DS-106, but struggling enough here.
I was back for a single day before taking off with Yavapai Culture to San Carlos Reservation near Globe. Here we held two long interviews with tribal members registered there. We were investigating familial relationships with Yavapai people who returned to Camp Verde at the turn of the century. Along with this, we interviewed about their lives at San Carlos and what they remember of their ancestors stories.
Then back home to begin downloading, editing and transcribing before running of on another trip next week. On Friday, we attended the Arizona Centennial meeting of the American Indian Tourism Association. Here we discussed projects being prepared statewide and at a local level. Statewide we will participate in Indian Villages at Prescott, Phoenix, and Tucson. Locally, we will be doing Digital Stories of the what was important to the Yavapai and Apache people. That year, statehood was probably of little importance to the People... but that fact they acquired their first lands since 1973 was of infinate value and started them towards their future.
On the way home we stopped at best buy. My Skyping project has bumped up against some monetary decisions. Seems to be a decision of buying a "Smart TV" that would Skype, a new laptop that will run the most current Skype interface, or new operating system for the iMacs. More about this later.
Well, back to the airport for Seattle. More later.
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