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Songs and Dances of the Great Lakes Indians

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Songs and Dances of the Great Lakes Indians

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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103
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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106
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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206
Women's Dance Huron Miller and Kadega'ohiyaie 3:34
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207
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
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Album Info

Catalog Number(s)

FW04003, FE 4003

Year 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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