219:. The American Folklore Society granted Toelken fellowship in 1981. He received four of the association's major awards: the Américo Paredes Prize and the Chicago Folklore Prize, both in 2007, followed by the Kenneth Goldstein Award for Lifetime Academic Leadership and the Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award, in 2011 and 2016, respectively.
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Toelken began his teaching career at the
University of Oregon in 1966. During nearly twenty years at the University, Toelken would serve as director for both Folklore and Ethnic Studies and also the Randall V. Mills Archives of Northwest Folklore. Toelken returned to Utah State in 1985: there he
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American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress, the National Endowment for the Arts Folklife Program, the Western Folklife Center, Utah Arts Council, and the International Ballad Commission.
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Yellowman family. Decades later, Toelken destroyed most of the physical records originating from his work with the Yellowman family, choosing to leave a set of cassette tapes with members of the family, not within an archive.
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Toelken, Barre (1998). "The End of
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Toelken, J. Barre (April 1959). "The Ballad of the 'Mountain
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Toelken, Barre (2004). "Beauty Behind Me; Beauty Before (AFS Address)".
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Morning dew and roses: nuance, metaphor, and meaning in folksongs
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A Conversation with Barre Toelken and William A. (Bert) Wilson
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Anguish Of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West
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