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Watch Courtney & Christina dive into the Library of Congress collections to show teens how they can explore all of our unique resources. Watch a lineup of authors who write for teens this Saturday & Sunday during our National Book Festival: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-21-053/?loclr=fbloc | The Library of Congress

The archival collections of the Library include the largest body of early indigenous American music recordings in the U.S.: about 10,000 wax cylinders of songs and stories. Many of them are recordings made by Omaha ethnographer Francis La Flesche (pictured). La Flesche was the first professional Native American ethnologist and a member of the Omaha Nation. His recordings and others like them are used by both native and non-native researchers. Their greatest value lies in the cultures and languag