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AMERICAN MOSAIC 1 - September 13, 2002: Native American Pow Wow in Washington / A Question About
Colonel 2 Sanders / Music of Lionel Hampton



HOST:
Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC — VOA’s radio magazine in Special English.
(THEME)
This is Doug Johnson. On our program today:
We play music by Lionel Hampton
.
Answer a question about the man whose picture is seen at eating places all over the world ..
.
And tell about a celebration of Native Americans.



Pow Wow on the Mall


HOST:


A Native American powwow is a celebration of ancient traditions. A large one is being held this weekend near
the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. Mary Tillotson tells us about it.
ANNCR:


 


The National Museum of the American Indian will not open to visitors for a year.
But it already is providing activities for American Indians and the public. This
weekend it will hold a national powwow to honor Native people and their traditions.
There will be music, dancing and American Indian foods. The celebration will be
held on the grassy 3 Mall next to the unfinished museum.


Powwows are social gatherings 4 of Native Americans who compete to perform
dances started centuries ago by their ancestors. The dancers wear colorful traditional
clothes. They move to the music of drums and singing. Two groups of drummers
will provide the strong beats for the dancers this weekend. One group of drummers
are Blackfeet Indians from Washington state. The other are Kiowa (KAI–oh–wa)


from Oklahama.


The Smithsonian’s powpow will include dancers representing hundreds of tribes 6. They will compete in seven
traditional kinds of dances. These include men’s grass dancing, women’s jingle 7 dress, and a tiny tots dance for
children under five years of age. Judges will choose the winners. Almost eighty-thousand dollars in prize money
will be given.


George Horse Capture is advisor 8 to the director of the National Museum of the American Indian. He says the
powwow may have begun with the Omaha tribe 5 as a victory dance by warriors 9. It was first called the grass dance.
By the middle eighteen-seventies, other tribes began learning the dance, changing it to meet their needs.


George Horse Capture says that the cultural life of many tribes today centers on the powwow. Members make
great efforts to attend their tribe’s yearly event. It is a time to honor special members, to remember those who
have died, and to celebrate the first time a child dances.


Thousands of American Indians from tribes in the United States and Canada are expected to attend the powwow
in Washington this weekend. Thousands of other people will come to watch as the dancers and drummers honor
their ancestors.



Colonel Sanders


HOST:


Our VOA listener question this week comes from Bulgaria. Svetlina Kirilova wants to know about the picture of
the smiling, old man she sees at every Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant.


Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants can be found in eighty-two countries around the world. That smiling, old
man shown in each of them is the American man who started the business, Colonel Harland Sanders.


Harland Sanders was born in the middle western state of Indiana in eighteen-ninety. He began
working at the age of ten for two dollars a month on a farm. He was poor for much of his life. He
held many different jobs. He was a farmer and a street car operator. He worked on the railroad
and on river boats. He studied law and was a businessman. He was also a soldier for six months,
but not a colonel.


At the age of forty, Harland Sanders began cooking for travelers who stopped at his gas station in
the southern state of Kentucky. More and more people began arriving just for the good food. So
he started a small restaurant across the street.



It was there that he developed a new way to cook a special kind of chicken. He became famous in (Photo -KFC)
the state of Kentucky. The governor made him a Kentucky Colonel to honor him for his work in nineteen-thirtyfive.


Years later, in nineteen-fifty-two, Harland Sanders began teaching other restaurant owners his secret method of
cooking chicken. He drove across the country, cooking chicken for restaurant owners. If they liked the chicken,
they would agree to a business deal and change their restaurants to ones that served the special chicken. Colonel
Sanders called the restaurants Kentucky Fried Chicken. He started the business when he was sixty-five years old.


By nineteen-sixty-four, more than six-hundred restaurants were cooking chicken using Harland Sanders’ secret
method. He then sold the company for two-million dollars. But he remained its spokesman 10 until his death in
nineteen-eighty. Today, Kentucky Fried Chicken has grown to become one of the largest food service systems in
the world.


Lionel Hampton


HOST:


American jazz musician Lionel Hampton died last month in New York City following a heart attack. He was
ninety-four years old. Lionel Hampton is considered one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time. Shep O’Neal
tells us about him.


ANNCR:



Lionel Hampton was born in Louisville, Kentucky, but later moved with his family to
Chicago, Illinois. He joined his first band as a teenager. Later, he traveled with many
bands, and learned to play an electronic instrument called the vibraphone. Listen as he
plays it in this famous recording 11, “Memories of You”.


((MUSIC))


In the nineteen-thirties, Lionel Hampton joined Benny Goodman’s jazz group. It was
the first time that blacks and whites performed together in a major musical group. Here,
the group plays a song always linked to Lionel Hampton because he wrote it. Hampton
once said he probably performed this song more than three-hundred times a year for


fifty years. It is “Flyin’ Home.


((MUSIC))


Lionel Hampton wrote more than two-hundred pieces of music and traveled all over the world playing them. He



continued to perform most of his life. He won many awards, including the National Medal of Arts. He also
established music schools and helped students pay for their educations. We leave you now with another Lionel
Hampton jazz recording, “Stomp 12.


((MUSIC))


HOST:


Every two years or so, AMERICAN MOSAIC has included a series about how foreign students can attend
college in the United States. This year, the series will be heard on the weekly EDUCATION REPORT instead.
The foreign student series will begin on the EDUCATION REPORT next Thursday, September nineteenth.


((MUSIC))


This is Doug Johnson. I hope you enjoyed our program today. And I hope you will join us again next week for
AMERICAN MOSAIC — VOA’s radio magazine in Special English.


This AMERICAN MOSAIC program was written by Caty Weaver 13 and Nancy Steinbach. Our studio engineer
was Gary Spiezler. And our producer was Paul Thompson.



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n.(英国陆军、美国陆空军及海军陆战队)上校
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  • The key fell on the ground with a jingle.钥匙叮当落地。
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v.跺(脚),重踩,重踏
  • 3.And you go to france, and you go to stomp! 你去法国,你去看跺脚舞!
  • 4.How hard did she stomp? 她跺得有多狠?
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