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Kiowa Hymns (2 CDs and booklet) (Hardcover)
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Kiowa Hymns (2 CDs and booklet) (Hardcover)
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This remarkable two-disc collection features sixty-six Native
Christian hymns sung by the Kiowa elder and singer Ralph Kotay.
Particularly well-known for their song traditions, which range from
peyote and powwow songs to hand-game and church songs, the Kiowas
are a Southern Plains Indian tribe that today resides in
southwestern Oklahoma. The Kiowa Christian hymn tradition first
emerged around the turn of the twentieth century and combined the
sound, structure, and style of European-American Christian hymns
with pre-Christian Kiowa songs. In the early twentieth century,
Christian churches enjoyed a dominant position in the Kiowa
community, as did Kiowa hymns. By the mid-twentieth century,
however, Kiowa traditions--which now included Kiowa church
traditions--were on the wane; of special concern was the declining
use of the Kiowa language. Kiowa elders began to recognize that
preserving and maintaining Kiowa hymns was of particular importance
in preserving and maintaining the Kiowa language. In 1962 a
committee of Kiowa Indians collected several dozen Kiowa Christian
hymns in a manuscript, written phonetically in Kiowa with English
translations. Passed from hand to hand for the last four decades,
the hymnbook has long been out of print and survives today only
because individuals have copied it over and over again. To preserve
the knowledge of these songs for future generations, Kotay sat down
on a sultry July afternoon at his home in Apache, Oklahoma, and
recorded them. The resulting collection will help ensure that these
hymns remain a rich and enduring part of the cultural heritage of
the Kiowa people.
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