Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: United States
Released: 1972
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Indigenous
[Tracklist]
A1 Calusa Corn Dance Song: Billie Stewart (01:42)
A2 Cypress Swamp Hunting Dance Song: Charlie Billie (02:21)
A3 4 Cypress Swamp Buffalo Dance Songs: Panther, Josie Billie (03:02)
A4 4 Cypress Swamp Corn Dance Song: Panther, Josie Billie (01:42)
A5 Bird Dance Song / Turkey Dance Song / Alligator Dance Song: Panther, Josie Billie (14:05)
B1 Snake Dance Songs: Panther, Josie Billie (04:07)
B2 Songs for the Story of the Opossum and Her Baby: Panther, Josie Billie (01:49)
B3 Buzzard Dance / Chicken Dance: Billie Stewart (04:00)
B4 Treatment of Lumbago / Song for the Dying / Song for Childbirth: Susie Tiger (08:05)
B5 Songs Concerning the Removal of the Seminole to Oklahoma: Susie Tiger (04:10)
[Credits]
Producer: Charles Hofmann, Recorder and Photographer: Frances Densmore, Designer: Ronald Clyne
[Notes]
Weakened by war and disease, Native peoples of Florida banded together with members of other tribes whom Europeans had forced southward from their homelands to form the Seminoles in the 18th century. Though a large number of Seminoles were relocated to Oklahoma, many stayed in Florida, especially in the Everglades. Dr. Frances Densmore (1867–1957) collected these recordings from 1931 to 1933 on repeat visits to two reservations in Florida. Densmore spent most of her life studying and recording American Indian music, an unlikely career path for a woman at a time when it was unheard of for a proper lady even to travel to "wild" areas.
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