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Star and Danielle Haller had a baby boy!
(Well, actually Danielle had a baby.
Star just stood and watched...)
Daniel Evan Haller was born
on October 16 at 9:35 p.m.
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Genieve Ann Henny bom July IS, 1997 to
Adam and Julie Henny.
Maternal grandparents are John and Sanda Henny.
Old tape brings holiday happiness to first Hudson reunion
On Thanksgiving Day the John Hudson family held its
first-ever family reunion. At the reunion, Alan Ham a great
grandson of Hudson, was able to play an audio recording of
him speaking Sanitam Kalpapuya. This was made possible
by the Kwelth Tahlkie Culture and Heritage Board, which
recently obtained a copy of the recording from Indiana.
Morris Swadesh made the recordings with John Hudson
in Grand Ronde in the summer of 1953. He made them as
part of a Penutian Vocabulary Survey. Penutian is the most
common language family in Western Oregon. Penutian lan
guages represented at Grand Ronde include Kalapuyan,
Chinookan, Takelman and Mollalan. At the time, Hudson
was 85 years old, and the last known speaker of the Santiam
dialect of Kalapuya.
Two tapes were made with Hudson. These total 76 min
utes and include a vocabulary survey and three short texts.
Alan Ham requested the assistance of the Board in locat
ing the tapes during a visit to the office in October of this
year. He believed that John Hudson had done recordings in
the early 1950s, and that they were archived in Seattle. Ham
expressed interest in having a copy of the recordings to
play at the family reunion to be held on Thanksgiving Day.
The tapes were discovered in two separate phases of re
search by the Board.
While conducting research to produce a narrative of the
Tribe's history, Dave Brumitt, a Board member, noted a bib
liography that referenced the John Hudson materials. They
were archived at the Indiana University's Archives of Tra
ditional Music.
Tony Johnson, the Board's Collections Curator of Lan
guage was also familiar with the archives. After Allen Ham's
request, he telephoned Indiana University and spoke to a
previous contact, Marilyn Graf.
Johnson produced formal requests for the materials dis
covered in Indiana. However, Graf advised Johnson, the
turn around time for the Archive to dub the full Grand Ronde
order of tapes would not allow them to be returned to the
Tribe in time for the
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Thanksgiving Day reunion. Johnson stressed the impor-,
tance of the Hudson tapes to the Hudson event. Graf, while
processing the order, sent copies of the Hudson material,,,
by special delivery at the Archives expense, to the Board.
These arrived just in time for Thanksgiving, and the reunion.
The original request to the Archive was to search for
materials related to all Tribes currently represented at Grand
Ronde. All the items of interest, which were uncovered at
the Archive, have been ordered. The Hudson material only
made up a small percentage of that order. When they arrive,
the remaining tapes will be archived with other previously
collected language material, a valuable addition to the exist
ing archive. They will be used to further language research
and educational efforts by the Tribe.
The reunion was a big success, with over 100 in atten
dance. Organizers for this event were: Sharon Hanson,
Terri Wood, Larry and Sherri Lewis, Norma Lewis, and Ruth
and Darrel Mercier.
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The first Hudson reunion was held on Thanksgiving Day 1 997 at St. Michael's
Church in Grand Ronde. Plans are underway to hold a reunion every two
years on Labor Day weekend. Pictured at left, listening to an old audio tape
of John Hudson recorded in 1953, are Marion Forster, Vernon Mercier, Shelley
Hanson, Sharon and Harold Hanson. Top: Joyce Ham and her family.