An Historical Album of Blackfoot Indian Music

The Blackfoot, purportedly known as such because of their dark-colored moccasins, originally ranged across the northern Great Plains region (Montana, Alberta, and Saskatchewan). These recordings, made in different settings from the late 1890s to the mid-1960s, capture a period when Blackfoot lifestyle, culture, and music underwent major change. They also represent evolving fieldwork recording methods during those seven decades, as phonocylinders and phonowire gave way to tape recording.

Track Listing

101	Beaver Medicine Song: Marmot Song / Antelope Song / Black Deer Song (medley)	James White Calf	03:16
102	Four Short Medicine Pipe Songs	n/a	01:56
103	Medicine Pipe Song	Spumiapi	02:30
104	Sun Dance Song (1-3)	Spumiapi	01:53
105	Scalp Song	Chief Bull	02:05
106	Warrior's Song	Theodore Last Star	01:02
107	Wolf song	Reuben Black Boy	01:34
108	Crazy Dog Society Song	Spumiapi	01:44
109	Lullaby	Calvin Boy	01:51
110	Lullaby (Baby Song)	Tom Many-Guns	00:27
111	Night Love Song	Chief Bull	02:01
112	Gambling Song	Calvin Boy	00:40
201	Gambling Song (1-3)	n/a	05:57
202	War or Grass Dance Song	Calvin Boy	01:14
203	Fast War or Grass Dance Song	Calvin Boy	01:32
204	Fast War or Grass Dance Song	Calvin Boy	01:12
205	War or Grass Dance songs (excerpts)	n/a	11:58
206	Owl Dance Song	Calvin and Mary Boy	01:13
207	Owl Dance Song (1-2)	Tom Many-Guns	01:42