Family Storytelling with Grayhawk Perkins (Choctaw/Houma)
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- Creator
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Views
- 8,892
- Video Title
- Family Storytelling with Grayhawk Perkins (Choctaw/Houma)
- Description
- New Orleans-born Grayhawk Perkins is a well-known cultural figure in Louisiana. He works as an educator, historian, and a musician, teaching music, history, writing, and environmental studies to students from Pre-K to college level. He has been a solo performer for young audiences for more than 15 years. In this family-friendly performance, he tells traditional stories from the Choctaw and Houma of Louisianna, as well as stories from his life growing up in the region. This performance was webcast on September 21, 2013 from the imagiNATIONS Activity Center in the National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC.
- Video Duration
- 58 min 9 sec
- YouTube Keywords
- Native American Indian Museum Smithsonian "Indigenous Peoples" "Smithsonian Institution" "Smithsonian NMAI" "National Museum of the American Indian"
- Uploaded
- 2013-09-25T18:14:09.000Z
- Type
- YouTube Videos
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- SmithsonianNMAI
- National Museum of the American Indian
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- SmithsonianNMAI
- YouTube Category
- Education
- Topic
- Native Americans;American Indians
- Record ID
- yt_yIPhA3gTY84
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