An Historical Album of Blackfoot Indian Music
Various Artists

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
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Beaver Medicine Song: Marmot Song / Antelope Song / Black Deer Song (medley) | James White Calf | 3:16 | |
102
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Four Short Medicine Pipe Songs | n/a | 1:56 | |
103
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Medicine Pipe Song | Spumiapi | 2:30 | |
104
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Sun Dance Song (1-3) | Spumiapi | 1:53 | |
105
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Scalp Song | Chief Bull | 2:05 | |
106
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Warrior's Song | Theodore Last Star | 1:02 | |
107
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Wolf song | Reuben Black Boy | 1:34 | |
108
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Crazy Dog Society Song | Spumiapi | 1:44 | |
109
|
Lullaby | Calvin Boy | 1:51 | |
110
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Lullaby (Baby Song) | Tom Many-Guns | 0:27 | |
111
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Night Love Song | Chief Bull | 2:01 | |
112
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Gambling Song | Calvin Boy | 0:40 | |
201
|
Gambling Song (1-3) | n/a | 5:57 | |
202
|
War or Grass Dance Song | Calvin Boy | 1:14 | |
203
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Fast War or Grass Dance Song | Calvin Boy | 1:32 | |
204
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Fast War or Grass Dance Song | Calvin Boy | 1:12 | |
205
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War or Grass Dance songs (excerpts) | n/a | 11:58 | |
206
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Owl Dance Song | Calvin and Mary Boy | 1:13 | |
207
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Owl Dance Song (1-2) | Tom Many-Guns | 1:42 |