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Songs and Dances of the Great Lake Indians

Various Artists
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

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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 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 Fred Lacasse 05:11
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103
Deer Song / Jesus Wegwissian Thomas Shalifoe 02:08
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104
War Rally Song / Bear Dance / Eagle Dance / Maple Sugar Song / Hoot Owl Song David Kenosha and Oshawenimiki 03:35
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Hoot Owl Song / Coon Song / Rabbit Song / Canoe Song / Medicine Song 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 or War Dance / Unspecified Tune 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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Women's Dance Huron Miller and Kadega'ohiyaie 03:34
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Fishing Dance Huron Miller and Kadega'ohiyaie 03:45
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208
Stomp Dance / Two Future Prospects Sing Rituals to the Creator Betty Pamptopee 03:12
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Seneca and Ojibwa Wesleyan Hymn Betty Pamptopee 01:12