At this event, folklorist Craig Mishler analyzes how the tale, The Blind Man and the Loon, changed over time, and how storytellers and oral tradition function within various societies. With the use of two maps he follows the routes the story has traveled which results in a masterful assessment of how Native oral traditions and folktales are adapted and spread among widely diverse cultures. Craig Mishler is an affiliate research professor with the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. He is the editor of Neerihiinjìk: We Traveled from Place to Place: The Gwich’in Stories of Johnny and Sarah Frank and the author of The Crooked Stovepipe: Athapaskan Fiddle Music and Square Dancing in Northeast Alaska and Northwest Canada.