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a Wisakecahk story
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Sound recording, story; a First Nation
American, Cree trickster tale, how and why or aetiological story,
told by Gayle Ross, as part of the programme Inuit Throat Singers
and Gayle Ross in the Main Tent at the Beyond the Border
Festival, St Donats Art Centre, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan,
Wales, 6th July 1996.
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Reference to the film 'Dances with Wolves' and
its relation to the Native American Lakota people, leading to
commentary on adoption in relation to Gayle's adopted brother and
the stories he tells. Followed by a section of creation story and
explanation who Wisakecahk is, and how Wisakecahk created man,
followed by story.
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Wisakecahk (Cree trickster character) meets a
grizzly bear with his nose in the blueberry bushes and his rear
end in the air. Wisakecahk makes fun of the grizzly bear's bare
rear end, but hides from him. Grizzly bear catches Wisakecahk
out, and a chase takes place. Wisakecahk shakes grandmother's
creation rattle and sings, causing grizzly bear to fall asleep
under a tree. Wisakecahk forgets about grizzly bear for the
entire autumn and winter. Then he overhears someone commenting on
grizzly bear's absense. He returns to the tree to find grizzly
bear. Wisakecahk finds the bear very thin, but alive and still
sleeping. He shakes the rattle and sings again to wake grizzly
bear, who is pleased to have avoided winter, and from that year
on Wisakecahk has put the bears to sleep every winter.
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audience:-
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adult
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recording quality
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condition:-
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good
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completeness:-
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complete
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duration:-
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0 hours, 15 minutes, 55 seconds
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Performing in programme Inuit Throat Singers and Gayle Ross were
Gayle Ross, Nellie Echalook and Mary Iqualluk. Belgium
ethnomusicologist Etienne Bours was also present on stage.
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Beyond the Border Festival was founded in 1993 by Ben Haggarty,
Artistic Director of the Crick Crack Club, and David Ambrose, the
then Director of St Donats Arts Centre, Wales. The Festival was
founded as The Beyond the Border International Festival of
Storytelling and Epic Singing, but became known simply as Beyond
the Border. The festival ran from 1993 to 2006 co-directed by the
two founders: with Ben Haggarty programming storytellers and
David Ambrose programming musicians. Since 2007 the festival has
been directed by David Ambrose. The festival is a weekend event
running on the first weekend of July annually; attracting around
2,500 people from across Britain and from overseas. The festival
is sited at St Donats Arts Centre and in the grounds of St Donats
Castle in the Vale of Glamorgan on the South Coast of Wales.
Beyond the Border was initiated as part of the UK Year of
Literature in 1995. The successful bid submitted by Academi
Wales, prominently featured a storytelling festival. The original
Director of the UK Year of Literature was Maura Dooley, who had
been at the South Bank Centre in London when Ben Haggarty ran the
Third International Storytelling Festival there in 1989. Maura
Dooley supported the proposal brought to her by Ben Haggarty and
David Ambrose to hold an International festival and series of
summer schools at St Donats Castle and to begin Beyond the Border
in 1993 in order to build an audience and a core of Wales-based
artists for the Year of Literature in 1995. However before the
plan could be implemented Maura Dooley resigned from her post
(the position was later taken by Sean Dorran). Despite this, St
Donats Arts Centre was committed to the festival and Beyond the
Border was launched in July 1993. The 1993, 1994 and 1995
festivals were accompanied by summer schools, which produced a
number of storytellers including Megan Lloyd, Francis Maxey,
Richard Berry and Michael Harvey.
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storytelling:-
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storyteller: Gayle Ross
female / American, North / First Nation American / Cherokee
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origin:-
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First Nation American
Cree
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Image of the performance showing Gayle Ross, Nellie Echalook and
Mary Iqualluk
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Festival programme
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Click to enlarge images
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associated:-
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translator: Etienne Bours
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associated:-
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throat singer; singer: Nellie Echalook
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associated:-
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throat singer; singer: Mary Iqualluk
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programming:-
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Festival Co-Director: Ben Haggarty
Festival Co-Director: David Ambrose
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administration:-
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administrator: St Donats Arts Centre
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storytelling:-
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St Donats, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales: St Donats Art
Centre: Main Tent
06 Jul 1996
festival: Beyond the Border Festival
Inuit Throat Singers and Gayle Ross
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gift from:-
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St Donats Arts Centre
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© The London Centre for International Storytelling:
2007