Why do the elders continue re-telling the oral traditions?

Why to you re-tell your own stories, to family, friends (be it via conversation, phone, social media)?

 

i.e., what roles and functions do these re-tellings serve?

and what function do they overtly do not serve?

 

 

 

Story Text: Rabbit and Jack Rabbit

Story Texts:  BIA official and handkerchief,      and "first presidential convention"

Story Texts:     Cabin Stories,      the Blue of Lake Coeur d'Alene,      the Two Bullets,      and Water drawn from the Sundance Center Pole       

 

 

 

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