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VOICES:

HARRY ROBERTS:

There was a tourist one time. They were out looking at (some) little Indian girls (and the girls heard them): ‘Aren’t they cute. Why look at them; they’re playing with dolls, just like people do.’

MR JACKSON:

(Elderly Indian who owned trailer court across from the Indian Bureau Office. On my way into Hoopa, I stopped to ask him if they would finish the Jump Dance today.)The weather has to be dry. Glue for the costumes comes from the sturgeon and it doesn’t hold if it is damp. Maybe they have Dance this afternoon if enough people come down... .The Brush Dance it’s medicine. The White deerskin Dance and the Jump Dance, they’re religion.

PAT HOESTLER:

White Deerskin Dance, September 10,1967.... < It started on Sunday; two dances on Monday; Tuesday five; then the Boat Dance, but it was so late, almost dark... .They had four boats, but trouble getting started. Three tipped over... .They were the new ones. The old one borrowed from the Colgroves didn’t tip over. But it was lovely. They landed where the Riverside Motel is. You could see them start. The boat dance is the prettiest part.

FRANK DOUGLAS:

I sang White Deerskin Dance.. .three of them carrying flint singing in front. Brush Dance you all sing same song. But you might sing second, you just follow. You know.. .that’s the way It was.

THOMAS BUCKLEY:

The major dances.. .focus of great festivals.. .(lasting) many weeks and attended by thousands. Medicine people prepared.. .the people as well... .Universal attention to returning to.. .balance and beauty.. .so . . .everything was once more as It should be.. .the world was ‘doctored,’ ‘fixed’.. .once again, decay and death reversed, life reaffirmed.

RUTH ROBERTS:

Redwood roots were used for the cooking baskets, as redwood has no pitch and doesn’t flavor the food.

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