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For many generations, native Americans passed on stories and traditions that provided the guidelines for their entire tribe verbally, since they did not have a written tradition. This was their heritage; their memory. So important were these stories that story tellers were selected at a very early age to remember each and every story and to eventually relate each story many times over to the children and adults. This is how the children learned their history and the pride that went along with knowing their traditions.

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Historians are interested in oral traditions because they want to learn about the past. Usually, only the "official" history gets into the books. Oral history, by contrast, preserves history through the words of ordinary people.

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Historians are interested in oral traditions because in many situations, these become part of written history. In some cases, such as Native Tribes in North America, the Native tribes used oral traditions exclusively in passing down their traditions to future generations.

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oral history is invaluable source of information for the time when no written record was prepared .

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it can make good relationship between young generation and older generation

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