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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Michael J. Zogry Enduring Voices Project Collection #20339, Southern Folklife Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Provenance

Received from Michael J. Zogry of Chapel Hill, N.C., in September 1999 (Acc. 98452).

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• Calhoun, Walker.
• Cherokee (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Cherokee Indian Reservation (N.C.).
• Cherokee Indians--Folklore.
• Cherokee Indians--Games.
• Cherokee Indians--Medicine.
• Cherokee Indians--Music.
• Cherokee Indians--North Carolina.
• Cherokee Indians--Rites and ceremonies.
• Cherokee Indians--Social life and culture.
• Cherokee art.
• Cherokee dance.
• Crowe, Amanda.
• Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.
• Folk songs, Cherokee.
• Indian dance--North Carolina.
• Indians of North America--North Carolina.
• North Carolina Arts Council.
• Oral history.
• Walker, Amy Grant.
• Wolfe, Jerry.
• Zogry, Michael J., 1966- .

Born 16 April 1966 in Washington, D.C., religious studies scholar Michael J. Zogry grew up in Raleigh, N.C. Zogry received a B.A. in religious studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1989 and a M.A. in history of religions from the University of Chicago in 1991. In 1997, he was C. Phil at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Through a folklife documentation grant from the North Carolina Arts Council, Zogry began the Enduring Voices Project, videotaping interviews with members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in Cherokee, N.C. Zogry was also granted permission by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Council for the documentation project, as a well as dissertation project in December 1996. In addition, he has conducted ethnographic and archival research on the Qualla Boundary. He is a visiting instructor at Duke University and North Carolina State University.

Typed transcripts and videotapes of interviews conducted by Michael J. Zogry for the Enduring Voices Project, through a folklife documentation grant from the North Carolina Arts Council, with individual members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in Cherokee, N.C. Interviewees include herbalist Amy Grant Walker, musician Walker Calhoun, storyteller Jerry Wolfe, and woodcarver Amanda Crowe. Topics include recollections of childhood on the Cherokee Indian Reservation and Cherokee songs, dances, stories, crafts, stickball games, and medicine.

Items separated include video recordings (VT-20339/1-29).