Session Handle:
http://hdl.handle.net/2196/09a98b72-44b2-431d-a66f-110692a92388
Title:
Tsuut'ina conversations: Gerald Meguinis, Bruce Starlight, and Sidney Starlight
Description:
Conversations in Tsuut'ina between Gerald Meguinis, Bruce Starlight, and Sidney Starlight, recorded in a meeting room at the Grey Eagle Resort and Casino, Tsuut'ina Nation. These conversations were recorded in two parts, with the contributing Elders taking short breaks between them. Each part covers the following topics: 1. In part one (DCT20181201A1), Bruce Starlight opens with brief discussion of the project, and offers an example of a short, casual recollection about taking several of his grandchildren swimming at a hotel. Gerald Meguinis then talks about his experiences being called on to be present and offering prayer at a meeting about missing Indigenous children, eventually leading to topics of childhood illnesses (including seizures), water-borne diseases, and illness and death due to contact with illicit drugs. The conversation then shifts to a series of short recollections of humorous incidents before turning back to the importance of counselling young people and responding to their requests, with some side discussion of Tsuut'ina terms for different kinds of beads. This leads to discussion of the naming of major buildings at Tsuut'ina Nation after past Chiefs, and of challenges facing young couples and families. Topics then shift again to work with horses and events at the rodeo grounds and the Tsuut'ina Cow Camp, with recollections of beaver trapping, teasing, drinking, and pranks interspersed, ending with a short story about a supernatural occurrence. 2. In part two (DCT20181201A2), the conversation begins with discussion of use of the Tsuut'ina term for "prolapse (in cattle)" as a derogatory expression, leading into related discussion of the term for "afterbirth." The topic then shifts to a series of related personal recollections about individuals being affected by medicine and spiritual power, both positively and negatively. As described below, each of these parts is represented by a set of files that provide the primary video (A) and audio (B) recordings of the original conversations, a corresponding time-aligned transcript (C), and a set of oral annotations (D): A. Video recordings of each conversation were made simultaneously on two cameras, one recording the entire scene (at 4K resolution; file names ending in "-C1.ṃp4") and another recording individual contributors with tighter framing (at 1080p resolution; file names ending in "-C2.ṃp4") B. Audio recordings of each conversation were made using three separate lavalier microphones, each used to record the speech of a single contributor on a separate mono track (file names ending in "-Tr1.wav", "-Tr2.wav", and "-Tr3.wav"). A stereo mix-down of these three tracks is also included (file names ending in ".wav" without a preceding "-Tr" identifier). C. Bilingual (Tsuut'ina-English), time-aligned transcripts of the audio and video of each part of conversation session were prepared using ELAN (file names ending in "_YYYYMMDD.eaf" and "_YYYYMMDD.pfsx" , where YYYYMMDD represents the date when this transcript was deposited). D. Oral annotations were audio-recorded and transcribed using SayMore for each part of this conversation session, offering slow, careful repetitions of Tsuut'ina utterances in the original conversation recordings and/or oral free translations of the same utterances into English. The oral annotations produced for each part of this conversation were exported from SayMore as uncompressed, three-channel LPCM audio (with the first channel preserving the audio of individual segments in the source recording being annotated here, the second channel representing careful repetitions in Tsuut'ina, and the third channel representing oral free translations into English; file names ending in "_OA_YYYYMMDD.wav") and an accompanying time-aligned transcript for use in ELAN (file names ending in "_OA_YYYYMMDD.eaf", with YYYYMMDD indicating the date when this set of oral annotations was exported).
Date created:
2018-12-01
Filename:
DCT20181201A1_OA_20240411.wav
File handle:
http://hdl.handle.net/2196/f86824c2-c048-478f-b3f8-6fa224b626b7
File type:
Audio
Access:
O
Filename:
DCT20181201A1-C1.mp4
File handle:
http://hdl.handle.net/2196/3293cac7-7b9a-4fa4-9e1b-41446bf704b6
File type:
Video
Access:
O
Filename:
DCT20181201A1-C2.mp4
File handle:
http://hdl.handle.net/2196/1e29c0c7-345c-49ed-a14c-0a441e5f2065
File type:
Video
Access:
O
Filename:
DCT20181201A1-Tr1.wav
File handle:
http://hdl.handle.net/2196/ca4dea0a-1f2a-45d7-b973-1a80773a97cb
File type:
Audio
Access:
O
Filename:
DCT20181201A1-Tr2.wav
File handle:
http://hdl.handle.net/2196/b913b0f5-61cf-4559-8bcc-f012b8d64346
File type:
Audio
Access:
O
Filename:
DCT20181201A1-Tr3.wav
File handle:
http://hdl.handle.net/2196/af143ca3-1eca-48b6-aef5-f4e0b4c602cd
File type:
Audio
Access:
O
Filename:
DCT20181201A1.wav
File handle:
http://hdl.handle.net/2196/0efc22b5-2055-40c2-86ff-f9ab9397598b
File type:
Audio
Access:
O
Filename:
DCT20181201A2_OA_20240410.wav
File handle:
http://hdl.handle.net/2196/c9800c1b-1e61-48d2-a44b-525df34527e2
File type:
Audio
Access:
O
Filename:
DCT20181201A2-C1.mp4
File handle:
http://hdl.handle.net/2196/bff839f5-e752-4f89-9dd5-a7dcb4bc9d26
File type:
Video
Access:
O
Filename:
DCT20181201A2-C2.mp4
File handle:
http://hdl.handle.net/2196/6e8ec3e4-f3d5-4d84-b476-dfc557b99837
File type:
Video
Access:
O
Filename:
DCT20181201A2-Tr1.wav
File handle:
http://hdl.handle.net/2196/574e99e9-2972-41b6-bf57-d3b4df7dee08
File type:
Audio
Access:
O
Filename:
DCT20181201A2-Tr2.wav
File handle:
http://hdl.handle.net/2196/f847bd34-ccef-49ff-a3cc-d1dd0889462a
File type:
Audio
Access:
O
Filename:
DCT20181201A2-Tr3.wav
File handle:
http://hdl.handle.net/2196/d256059d-bc3e-4fc5-adc1-2e540af707d3
File type:
Audio
Access:
O
Filename:
DCT20181201A2.wav
File handle:
http://hdl.handle.net/2196/d2c7a866-bdcc-41f2-a06a-353060074c0d
File type:
Audio
Access:
O
