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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 06:15
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102
Fish Dance / Pipe of Peace Dance / Pow Wow or Horse Dance / Forty-Nine Dance / Oh Mary (medley) Fred Lacasse 05:11
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103
Deer Song / Jesus Wegwissian (medley) Thomas Shalifoe 02:08
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104
War Rally Song / Bear Dance / Eagle Dance / Maple Sugar Song / Hoot Owl Song (medley) David Kenosha and Oshawenimiki 03:35
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105
Hoot Owl Song / Coon Song / Rabbit Song / Medicine Song (medley) Whitney, Zhagezhin Albert, and Blue Cloud 04:48
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106
Grass Dance Song / Drinking Song Eli, Wassheshkom Thomas 01:39
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Bear Dance Percy, Kanat'he Smoke 02:18
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202
Eagle Dance Percy, Kanat'he Smoke 02:49
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203
Wasase Rain Dance, War Dance Richard Buck 02:40
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204
Scalp Dance Thomas Lewis 00:57
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205
Corn Dance Thomas Lewis 02:10
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206
Women's Dance Huron Miller and Kadega'ohiyaie 03:34
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207
Fishing Dance Huron Miller and Kadega'ohiyaie 03:45
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208
Stomp Dance / Rituals to the Creator / Wesleyan Hymn (medley) Betty Pamptopee 03:12
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209
Owa bagish kichi ingodwok nijinishinabek (O for a thousand tongues) Betty Pamptopee 01:12

Release Info

Catalog Number(s)

FW04003, FE 4003

Year(s) Released

1956

Label(s)/Collection(s)

Folkways Records

Country(s)

Canada, United States

Genre(s)

American Indian

Instrument(s)

Drum, Flute

Language(s)

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

Recording Era(s)

1950s

Credit(s)

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