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 sons, 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	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