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Part of (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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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

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