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Indian music of the Canadian Plains
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- Smithsonian global sound for libraries
- Format
- Sound Recordings
- Language
- North American Indian (Other)
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, [2007]
- ℗2007
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming audio file
- OCLC
- ocn689540471
- Credits
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- Sung by Cree, Assiniboin, Blood, and Blackfoot Indians, accompanied by percussion, rattles and leg-bells
- Previously issued in 1955 as analog disc, Folkways Records : FE 4464.
- Previously issued in series: Ethnic Folkways library.
- Recorded by Ken Peacock for the National Museum of Canada.
- Smithsonian Folkways Recordings: FE 4464.
- Cree: War song (male voices and hand-drum) -- Prisoner's song (male voice with hand drum) -- Bear ceremony (male voice with rattle) -- Big dog dance song (male voice with drum) -- Hand-game song (male voices with sticks) -- Greeting song (male voice) -- Pow wow song (male voices) -- Grass dance song (male voice with hand drum) -- Pow wow love song (male voice) -- Assinboine: Warrior's death song (male voice with bass drum, leg-bells) -- Blood: Grass dance song (male voices with bass drum, leg-bells) -- Chicken dance song (male voices with bass drum, leg-bells) -- Owl dance song (male voices, bass drum) -- Sun dance song (mixed voices with hand-drum) -- Crazy dog dance song (mixed voices, hand-drum, rattle) -- Serenade (male voices) -- Owl dance song (male voices with hand-drum) -- Blackfoot: Lucky stone song (male voice with rattle) -- War song (boys, with hand-drum)