Good day, Thomas Jefferson Hour podcast listeners as always.

Thank you so much for listening.

Kind of a different show this week.

I'm just going to play the public radio billboard

as a way to get into this week.

This week on the Thomas Jefferson Hour,

I turned the tables and interviewed David Swenson

about his remarkable project, Repatriation of Francis

Denz Moore's audio recordings of Native Americans

in North Dakota in 1911.

You know, you're a pretty good interviewer.

It was fun to talk about this and I really enjoyed it.

And I so appreciate the fact that you gave me the opportunity to do so.

David Swenson has been recording Native American sound

for more than a quarter of a century.

He received a grant from the Bush Foundation

among others to remaster Francis Denz Moore's music

and to contextualize it by using Native American elders

to explain what she was doing, the meaning of those songs

and their contemporary importance

for young Native Americans today.

Denz Moore was a fascinating woman and it's great to be able

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