(October 4, 1974) Student Barry Roderick Awarded Youthgrant By The National Endowment for the Humanities to Study Mythic Inuit Tribal Motifs
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(October 4, 1974) Student Barry Roderick Awarded Youthgrant By The National Endowment for the Humanities to Study Mythic Inuit Tribal Motifs
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4 October 1974
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The Evergreen
NEWS
Olympia. Washington
State
College
866-6128
98505
for immediate release
October 4, 1974
Barry Roderick,
$3832 Youthgrant
motifs
a senior at The Evergreen
by the National
Endowment
State College,
for the Humanities
has been awarded
a
to study the mythic
of the Inuit tribe in Alaska.
Roderick,
25, plans to spend the next seven months
in an Inuit village,
recording
f@lR
and writing
living with an Eskimo
tales and documenting
family
oral traditions
of the tribe.
The Evergreen
recently
student
ritually
has already
spent considerable
time in Alaska
adoped by an Inuit family and acquired
the additional
and was
name of
Akpiq Aluraq.
His grant,
program,
the first one received
will enable him to "provide
the oral traditions
on which
studies,"
to Evergreen
Roderick
according
at Evergreen
through
future researchers
to base their research
Academic
the NEH Youthgrant
with a complete
and analyses
Dean Charles
colle-ctionfof
of Inuit and Arctic
Teske, who has worked
with
on the grant.
"It will also provide
area of Americana
the U.S. Bicentennial
--- America's
Committee
latest and most distinct
with a potentially
citizenry,
neglected
the Eskimo,"
Teske said.
The Youthgrants
persons
are part of a new program
sponsored
--- in and out of school --- a chance to explore
humanities,
humanistic
to enlarge
interest,
their" educational
experience
Nichols ~¥)irector
Infor mation
their own concerns
and to provide
Teske added.
Dick
by NEH to provide
Services
young
in the
sl:ad.iesof broad
