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Frank Richards

36:35 - 37:40

"this belongs because our music and our language and our art is world-class. And this is a showcase of how our art, our language, our music is world-class."

“this belongs because our music and our language and our art is world-class. And this is a showcase of how our art, our language, our music is world-class.”
Speaker
Frank Richards
Community
Alaska News
Captured at
August 27, 2026

From the transcript

Sometimes I think I wish all these elders I worked with could see it, but what they did is they made it by talking with us so much. Yeah, that makes me think, I mean, it's talking about some of the elders and some of the people that have passed, and, you know, we truly are standing on the shoulders of giants, and I think about, You know, I remember working within the TCLO program and sitting down with Kingisde David Katzieke, and he's talking about an opera. And he's sitting there and he's, you know, pounding his feet and he's standing up and dancing and he's singing at the top of his lungs. Well, the kids are trying to learn, but it was like he's over there singing and he's passionate and he's like, this belongs because our music and our language and our art is world-class. And this is a showcase of how our art, our language, our music is world-class.