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Songs and Dances of the Great Lakes Indians

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Songs and Dances of the Great Lakes Indians
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Gertrude Prokosch Kurath recorded and comments on music performed by the Great Lakes tribes of Algonquin, Meskwaki, Ojibwa, Iroquois and others. On this collection you’ll find a fish dance, peace pipe dance and powwow dance; a bear dance, eagle dance and deer song; a medicine song, drinking song and canoe song.

Track Listing

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Buffalo Head Dance 1 and 2 / Bear Claw or Grizzly Bear Dance / Pipe of Peace or Calumet Dance / Soldier or Victory Round Dance / Love Song for Flute (medley) Wilson, Wapanuetak Roberts 6:15
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Fish Dance / Pipe of Peace Dance / Pow Wow or Horse Dance / Forty-Nine Dance / Oh Mary (medley) Fred Lacasse 5:11
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Deer Song / Jesus Wegwissian (medley) Thomas Shalifoe 2:08
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104
War Rally Song / Bear Dance / Eagle Dance / Maple Sugar Song / Hoot Owl Song (medley) David Kenosha and Oshawenimiki 3:35
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Hoot Owl Song / Coon Song / Rabbit Song / Medicine Song (medley) Whitney, Zhagezhin Albert, and Blue Cloud 4:48
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Grass Dance Song / Drinking Song Eli, Wassheshkom Thomas 1:39
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Bear Dance Percy, Kanat'he Smoke 2:18
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202
Eagle Dance Percy, Kanat'he Smoke 2:49
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203
Wasase Rain Dance, War Dance Richard Buck 2:40
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204
Scalp Dance Thomas Lewis 0:57
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205
Corn Dance Thomas Lewis 2:10
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Women's Dance Huron Miller and Kadega'ohiyaie 3:34
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Fishing Dance Huron Miller and Kadega'ohiyaie 3:45
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208
Stomp Dance / Rituals to the Creator / Wesleyan Hymn (medley) Betty Pamptopee 3:12
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Owa bagish kichi ingodwok nijinishinabek (O for a thousand tongues) Betty Pamptopee 1:12

Album Info

Catalog Number(s)

FW04003, FE 4003

Year(s) Released

1956

Label/Collection

Folkways Records

Genre(s)

American Indian

Country(s)

Canada; United States

Culture Group(s)

Cayuga-Tutelo; Iroquois; Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians; L'Anse Band of the Lake Superior Band of Chippewa Indians; Meskwaki; Ojibwe; Ongwehonhwe’ (Onondaga); Onondaga; Ottawa; Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan; Seneca

Instrument(s)

Drum; Flute

Language(s)

Cayuga (Gayogo̱hó:nǫ’); Meskwaki; Ojibwa (ᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯᒧᐏᐣ, Anishinaabemowin); Onondaga (Onoñda’gega’); Ottawa; Tuscarora; Tutelo

Credit(s)

Gertrude Prokosch Kurath - Recorder, Producer
 Ronald Clyne - Designer
 Ontario Dept. of Travel and Publicity - Photographer (Cover)
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