Naam / Gen Eehu
(I don't know, whatever)
Tuma Theatre
from Athabaskan Indian folk tales and the life of elder Evelyn Alexander
devised directed
Tuma Theater’s “Naam/Geneehu” was created and will be performed in collaboration with visiting Athabaskan elders Evelyn Alexander and Ruth Grant, who have been in residence at the university since the beginning of the year.
Both women have viewed this year’s Tuma performance as a unique opportunity to personally convey traditional ideas to a broad audience, Native and non-Native. The performance has also provided a way for Alexander to transfer her stories to her younger niece, and in this way carry on the fragile Athabaskan oral tradition.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Prophesy
I had many dreams. There will be people with white skin, and white women with blonde hair. Dark complexion people and light complexion people will be all mixed up. We all will go along with them. You too.
There will be a box that can roll around on ground like little house, and you can turn right around, and it have wheels go around under it. There will be long thing that crawl on ground. Carry baba. Wheel under it gogogo. When it going to start it say "whoowhoo." When engine start go "lollolllol."
When you look up see big bird. Fast it make lotsa noise like geese when land on ground. And something you just put in ear and somebody from far away talk to you, Unana States. And there will be a small box that with people talking in it. We won't know where the voices come from.
And then we'll see people in big box. They'll be moving around and they'll be moving around and they'll talk. They'll talk, they'll sing, they'll dance. Won't be long before it happens. Person will come from Unana States. Then he'll talk to people, try to make them understand what's going on.
from Naam/ Gen Eehu
