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DCT20181202A

Session Information

Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/db3f32f2-e8bb-4b77-a84e-76ef722f6c20

Title: Tsuut'ina conversations: Charles Crowchild, Frances Crowchild Jensen, and Bruce Starlight

Description: Conversations in Tsuut'ina between Charles Crowchild, Frances Crowchild Jensen, and Bruce Starlight, recorded in a meeting room at the Grey Eagle Resort and Casino, Tsuut'ina Nation. These conversations begin with several short, humorous stories, leading into discussion of past experiences with bears, an individual's near-fatal encounter with a moose, and how that individual's life was saved through spiritual practices. Topics then shift to consider personal experiences of language shift, language reclamation, and the importance of speaking Tsuut'ina, followed by some discussion of particular Tsuut'ina words and phrases (e.g., words no longer in common use, dialect differences, etc.). This leads into an extended discussion of traditional stories about the Old Man and how they connect with one another in a story cycle. Finally, these conversations end with a number of personal recollections of visiting extended family members and other individuals at Tsuut'ina Nation as children and young adults, with accompanying discussion of how some of those individuals were related to one another. As in other sessions in this collection, this conversation is represented by a set of files that provide the primary video (A) and audio (B) recordings of the original conversation session, a corresponding time-aligned transcript (C), and a set of oral annotations (D): A. Video recordings of this conversation session 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 this conversation session 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 this 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 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, 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: 2018-12-02

Location

Continent: Americas

Country: Canada

Region: Alberta

Address: Tsuut'ina Nation

Project

ID: MDP0388

Name: 0554-MDP0388

Description: This project documents conversations in Tsuut’ina (ISO 639-3: srs), a Dene language spoken by members of the Tsuut’ina Nation in southern Alberta, Canada. The collection comprises eight hours of annotated audiovisual recordings of spontaneous conversations between first-language speakers of Tsuut’ina, and was developed by Bruce Starlight (Office of the Tsuut’ina Language Commissioner, Tsuut’ina Nation), Patrick Moore (University of British Columbia), and Christopher Cox (Carleton University).

Topics

Topic: Discussion of tsuut'ina vocabulary

Topic: Medicine and medicine power

Topic: Traditional stories

Topic: Visiting and kinship relations

Keywords

Keyword: Bear

Keyword: Chickadee

Keyword: Gophers

Keyword: Medicine

Keyword: Moose

Keyword: Old man

Content

Genre: Conversation

Languages

Language

Name: Tsuut'ina

Description: Subject Language

Language

Name: English

Description: Working Language

Actor

Full Name: Charles Crowchild

Role: participant

Actor

Full Name: Frances Crowchild Jensen

Role: participant

Actor

Full Name: Bruce Starlight

Role: participant

Actor

Full Name: Christopher Cox

Role: recorder

Actor

Full Name: Gerald Meguinis

Role: translator

Media Files

Filename: DCT20181202A1_OA_20240321.wav

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/3dc0fb3e-629d-4925-9b6d-a5976b039b6f

File type: Audio

Access: O

Filename: DCT20181202A1-C1.mp4

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/40678670-2792-4f6d-886d-3ac66365c838

File type: Video

Access: O

Filename: DCT20181202A1-C2.mp4

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/eb0ab299-679f-4aba-b2ba-969e497861b6

File type: Video

Access: O

Filename: DCT20181202A1-Tr1.wav

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/3970e15e-ef2b-4175-be4c-5a59ad8110dc

File type: Audio

Access: O

Filename: DCT20181202A1-Tr2.wav

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/f93feeb4-ec23-499f-8f07-b0044f203e12

File type: Audio

Access: O

Filename: DCT20181202A1-Tr3.wav

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/1ad351c2-3748-46fe-9d02-cd1e3c627c52

File type: Audio

Access: O

Filename: DCT20181202A1.wav

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/69aa3cfb-92fb-4322-90a4-f29376f38e39

File type: Audio

Access: O

Written Resources

Filename: DCT20181202A1_20240410.eaf

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/5e4719e2-29de-468c-8539-c22d06ba31a1

File type: ELAN

Access: O

Filename: DCT20181202A1_20240410.pfsx

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/333db485-d6d6-4105-96cf-d615e7571ece

File type: ELAN

Access: O

Filename: DCT20181202A1_OA_20240321.eaf

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/46294ff7-e222-4065-905e-3a6d9d9986f8

File type: ELAN

Access: O

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