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	Three Beaver Medicine Songs: Marmot Song / Antelope Song / Black Deer Song James White Calf	03:16
102	Four Short Medicine Pipe Songs of the Piegan Unidentified Piegan man, Browning, Montana	01:56
103	Medicine Pipe Song Spumiapi (White Headed Chief)	02:30
104	Three Sun Dance Songs Spumiapi (White Headed Chief)	01:53
105	Scalp Song Chief Bull and Three Suns, Crow Agency, Montana	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 (White Headed Chief)	01:44
109	Lullaby Calvin Boy	01:51
110	Lullaby (Baby Song) Tom Many-Guns	00:27
111	Night Love Song Chief Bull, Crow Agency, Montana	02:01
112	Gambling Song Calvin Boy	00:40
201	Three Gambling Songs (Excerpts) Blackfoot hand game players, Heart Butte, Montana	05:57
202	War or Grass Dance Song Calvin Boy	01:14
203	Fast War or Grass Dance Song (1) Calvin Boy	01:32
204	Fast War or Grass Dance Song (2) Calvin Boy	01:12
205	War or Grass Dance Songs (Excerpts) Pow-wow drum groups at North American Indian Days, Browning, Montana	11:58
206	Owl Dance Song Calvin Boy and Mrs. Mary Boy	01:13
207	Two Owl Dance Songs Tom Many-Guns	01:42