I've published links and information here before about Barre Toelken. He's really quite an amazing fellow. Such a loss, a stroke that steals songs!

His work with Navajo language is very important. I remember one day speaking with a professor in graduate school about Barre, that I'd heard him in concert - there is such a difference between these two interests that the professor didn't have a clue. He's a singer himself and was going to meet Barre at a Native American lit/culture conference. I urged him to engage him in a discussion of folk songs, that he'd probably be amazed. I think he was.

SRS