Scope and Content
Manuscript, sound recordings, and graphic materials collected by Alan Jabbour and Laurel McIntyre during four visits in 1999 to Macy, Nebraska, in an effort to identify sound recordings and photographic images from the American Folklife Center's Omaha Indian collections. This project was undertaken as part of the National Digital Library Program's effort to obtain information on materials to be used in the Omaha Indian Music online presentation.
Hethu’shka song translations and contextual information were gathered in recorded interviews with Omaha tribe members Rufus White, Elmer Blackbird, and Morgan Lovejoy. The interviewees listened to and commented on sound recordings from the collections of the American Folklife Center. These included Hethu’shka songs from the 1890s, the 1983 Omaha harvest celebration pow-wow, Alan Jabbour’s 1983 interview with John Turner, and the Hethu’shka Society performance in the 1985 Neptune Plaza Concert Series at the Library of Congress. The interviews are conducted by Alan Jabbour and Laurel McIntyre. Dennis Hastings, director of the Omaha Tribal Historical Research Project, was consulted throughout this project for help identifying subjects in photographs.