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  • "Yellow Bird" Aims to Preserve & Pass American Indian Traditions

    MAIN MISSION OF "YELLOW BIRD" TO PRESERVE AND PASS TO GENERATIONS
    TRADITIONS OF AMERICAN INDIANS


    YEREVAN, MAY 26, NOYAN TAPAN. "It's a great honour for me to be in
    your country. Here people are warm and hospitable. I am glad that I'm
    in a far and hospitable Armenia," Ken Duncan, the "Yellow Bird" apache
    tribe dance group head stated at the May 25 press-conference taken
    place in Yerevan. According to Ken Duncan, the "Yellow Bird" dance
    group may be considered a family group as well, as his wife, daughter
    and seven sons are involved in it. And the group's name is his wife's
    maiden tribe name. Besides the family members, apaches of other tribes
    are also involved in this apache group having creative history of more
    than 20 years. According to Ken Duncan, the primary mission of the
    dance group is to preserve and pass to generations American Indians'
    traditions. He mentioned that besides dancing performances, their
    group also performs ancient stories and shows on those themes.

    According to Duncan, as a dance group of American aborigines, they
    present different phenomena of nature by music and dancing performances.
    And according to him, culture is important for everybody understands
    "where he comes from and where he goes to." Besides the concert
    mission, according to their ancestors' traditions, the group builds
    apache villages and settlements in different countries of the
    world. One of Duncan's sons presented his music instrument, a pipe
    belonged to American aborigines by which he performed an interesting
    music work: when a boy decided to court a girl, he starts playing pipe
    and after the 4th performance, he gave it to the chosen girl. As for
    the problem of using together the modern techniques and apache
    traditions, according to Ken Duncan, they work and create by using
    both variants: for example, "during the period of time when young
    girls come to age, the whole tribe goes up to hills and implements
    traditional ceremonial rites." And in other cases, of course, they
    make use of technics. 50 thousand apaches live today in the U.S. who
    has a sovereign status there. The "Yellow Bird" group has had concert
    tours during these years in different countries of the world. They
    must leave for England immediatly after the Armenian tours.
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