Indian Music of the Canadian Plains

Ethnic Folkways Library – FE 4464

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1966
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Indigenous
[Tracklist]
A01 Cree: War Song: George Nicotine and group (01:49)
A02 Cree: Prisoner's Song: William Burn Stick (02:26)
A03 Cree: Bear Ceremony: Harry Nicotine (02:37)
A04 Cree: Big Dog Dance Songs: n/a (03:19)
A05 Cree: Hand-Game Songs: William Peaychew (02:49)
A06 Cree: Greeting Song: William Peaychew (02:05)
A07 Cree: Pow Wow Song: Alan Fox and Lawrence Kiskotagan (03:15)
A08 Cree: Grass Dance Song: Elie Pooyak (01:34)
A09 Cree: Pow Wow Love Song: Elie Pooyak (01:28)
B01 Assinboine: Warrior's Death Song: n/a (02:01)
B02 Blood: Grass Dance Song: n/a (02:11)
B03 Blood: Chicken Dance Song: n/a (02:15)
B04 Blood: Owl Dance Song: Unspecified (02:32)
B05 Blood: Sun Dance Song: Jim Low Horn, Jack Low Horn, and Mrs. Emil Wings (01:51)
B06 Blood: Crazy Dog Dance Song: Jim Low Horn, Jack Low Horn, and Mrs. Emil Wings (01:43)
B07 Blood: Serenade: Adam Delaney and group (02:44)
B08 Blood: Owl Dance Song: Adam and Wallace Delaney (01:20)
B09 Blackfoot: Lucky Stone Song: One Gun (01:12)
B10 Blackfoot: War Song: Wilfred Calf Robe and Albert Scalp Lock (00:56)
[Credits]
Producer, Recorder and Liner Notes: Kenneth Peacock, Designer: Ronald Clyne
[Notes]
Recorded by eminent Canadian ethnomusicologist Ken Peacock for the National Museum of Canada, this recording features the music of the Cree, Assiniboine, Blood, and Blackfoot tribes of the Canadian Plains. Comprehensive liner notes by Peacock provide history and geography of the Plains as well as background on the cultural characteristics of the people who inhabit them. By distinguishing the variations in drum rhythms, and explaining the nuances in volume change and the relationship between the rhythm and the voice, Peacock’s notes afford the listener an understanding of the war, ceremonial, and dance songs featured on this recording.