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Indian Games And Dances With Native Songs - Arranged From American Indian Ceremonials And Sports (Hardcover)
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Indian Games And Dances With Native Songs - Arranged From American Indian Ceremonials And Sports (Hardcover)
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One day Alice C. Fletcher realized that "unlike my Indian friends,
I was an alien, a stranger in my native land." But while living
with the Indians and pursuing her ethnological studies she felt
that "the plants, the trees, the clouds and all things had become
vocal with human hopes, fears, and supplications." This famous
statement comes directly from the preface of this book and was
later etched on her tombstone. "I have arranged these dances and
games with native songs in order that our young people may
recognize, enjoy and share in the spirit of the olden life upon
this continent, " she wrote. Indian Games and Dances with Native
Songs is a collection that conveys the pleasure and meaning of
music and play and rhythmic movement for American Indians. Many of
the activities here described are adapted from ceremonials and
sports. Included is a "drama in five dances" celebrating the life
of corn. "Calling the Flowers" is an appeal to spirits dwelling
underground to join the dancers. Still another dramatic dance, with
accompanying songs, petitions clouds to leave the sky. The Festival
of Joy, an ancient Omaha ceremony, is centered on a sacred tree. In
the second part Indian ball games and games of hazard and guessing
are set forth, as well as the popular hoop and javelin game.
Fletcher closes with a section on Indian names. Alice C. Fletcher,
the foremost woman anthropologist in the United States in the
nineteenth century, is also the author, with Francis La Flesche, of
A Study of Omaha Indian Music and the two-volume Omaha Tribe. Both
titles are available as Bison Books. Helen Myers is the coauthor of
Folk Music in the United States: An Introduction.
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