The Traditional American Deer Song and Other Jokes

Kenny and other Cultural Dept staff perform the UCLA research team's "traditional deer song" and "traditional bear song." One of the researchers, Rowan, responds with the "traditional spider song." These jokes served to lighten the mood, but also pointed out the formalized observer/observed dynamic in academic research. Many of the indigenous songs performed for researchers are children's' songs, but are treated with great reverence by researchers due to a colonial past that sought to erase these traditions.