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Article: INDIAN PERFORMERS FIND ROOTS IN CULTURE; IROQUOIS FAMILY SINGERS AND DANCERS TEACHES URBAN YOUTHS NATIVE AMERICAN TRADITIONS.(SERIES: Native American History Month)(Local)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- November 16, 2001
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Byline: Mike McAndrew Staff writer
Sherry Phillips' children grew up on Shonnard Street only 10 miles from the Onondaga Nation's land.
But her urban children had more contact with white, Latino and black urban cultural experiences than with their own Native American heritage.
They knew the words to the rap and rock songs, but not the songs their forefathers had been singing for centuries. That situation is changing - for her children and other Native American children in Syracuse.
This summer, Phillips and Victoria Truax formed the Iroquois Family Singers and Dancers, a nonprofit performance group, to nurture the bond between ...