Songs and Dances of the Great Lake 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

101	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	Wilson Roberts (Wapanueták)	06:15
102	Fish Dance / Pipe of Peace Dance / Pow Wow or Horse Dance / Forty-Nine Dance / Oh Mary	Fred Lacasse, George W. Brown, Sam Link, and John Martin	05:11
103	Deer Song / Jesus Wegwissian	Thomas Shalifoe	02:08
104	War Rally Song / Bear Dance / Eagle Dance / Maple Sugar Song / Hoot Owl Song	Susan Shagonaby, David Kenosha (Oshawenimiki; Yellow Thunder)	03:35
105	Hoot Owl Song / Coon Song / Rabbit Song / Canoe Song / Medicine Song	Whitney Albert (Zhagezhin; Blue Cloud)	04:48
106	Grass Dance Song / Drinking Song	Eli Thomas (Wassheshkom)	01:39
201	Bear Dance	Percy Smoke (Kanat'he)	02:18
202	Eagle Dance	Percy Smoke (Kanat'he)	02:49
203	Wasase Rain Dance or War Dance / Unspecified Tune	Richard Buck	02:40
204	Scalp Dance	Thomas Lewis	00:57
205	Corn Dance	Thomas Lewis	02:10
206	Women's Dance	Huron Miller (Kadega'ohiyaie; Middle of the Sky)	03:34
207	Fishing Dance	Huron Miller (Kadega'ohiyaie; Middle of the Sky)	03:45
208	Stomp Dance / Two Future Prospects Sing Rituals to the Creator	Huron Miller (Kadega'ohiyaie), Gordie and Morris Buck	03:12
209	Seneca and Ojibwa Wesleyan Hymn	Betty Pamptopee and daughters	01:12