Indian Music of the Canadian Plains

Recorded by Canadian ethnomusicologist Ken Peacock for the National Museum of Canada, this recording features the music of the Cree, Assiniboine, Blood, and Blackfoot tribes of the Canadian Plains. Comprehensive liner notes by Peacock provide history and geography of the Plains as well as background on the cultural characteristics of the people who inhabit them. By distinguishing the variations in drum rhythms, and explaining the nuances in volume change and the relationship between the rhythm and the voice, Peacock’s notes afford the listener an understanding of the war, ceremonial, and dance songs featured on this recording.

Track Listing

101	Cree: War Song	George Nicotine and group	01:49
102	Cree: Prisoner's Song	William Burn Stick	02:26
103	Cree: Bear Ceremony	Harry Nicotine	02:37
104	Cree: Big Dog Dance Songs	Antoine Lonesinger	03:19
105	Cree: Hand-Game Songs	William Peaychew	02:49
106	Cree: Greeting Song	William Peaychew	02:05
107	Cree: Pow Wow Song	Alan Fox and Lawrence Kiskotagan	03:15
108	Cree: Grass Dance Song	Elie Pooyak	01:34
109	Cree: Pow Wow Love Song	Elie Pooyak	01:28
201	Assiniboine: Warrior's Death Song	Pow-wow singers, dancers and drummers, Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan	02:01
202	Blood: Grass Dance Song	Five singers surrounding a drum	02:11
203	Blood: Chicken Dance Song	Five singers surrounding a drum	02:15
204	Blood: Owl Dance Song (1)	Singers, drummers	02:32
205	Blood: Sun Dance Song	Jim Low Horn, Jack Low Horn, and Mrs. Emil Wings	01:51
206	Blood: Crazy Dog Dance Song	Jim Low Horn, Jack Low Horn, and Mrs. Emil Wings	01:43
207	Blood: Serenade	Adam Delaney and group	02:44
208	Blood: Owl Dance Song (2)	Adam and Wallace Delaney	01:20
209	Blackfoot: Lucky Stone Song	One Gun	01:12
210	Blackfoot: War Song	Wilfred Calf Robe and Albert Scalp Lock	00:56