...Grant Arndt Copyright 2016 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2016 Recording Culture: Powwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Industry on the Northern Plains . By Scales Christopher A. . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2012 . xi + 368 pp., acknowledgments, introduction...

... excellence of individual living men like the Penacook sachem-powwow Passaconaway and supernatural entities like Maushop. For men throughout the region, cultivating and maintaining spiritual associations was essential to success in the arenas of life defining Indian masculinity: games, hunting, warfare...

... welcoming the carnival crowds to experience all this. Over the sum- mers, spotlights were larger and dancing was faster. Powwow became a pan-Indian melange of the no-longer-identifiable western and wood- land...

... Coloradans “launched a series of remembrances of the Utes, as an effort to coalesce a regional identity for a set of rootless, mostly white people” (4). The commemorations, anchored in an idealized Ute spirituality constructed by non-Utes, culminated in the Smoking River Powwow, a gathering to bring Northern...

...Figure 13. John Smith dancing at the White Earth powwow, 1919 ...

... a distinct identity. In contem- porary accounts of Southeastern groups, a fine-grained analysis, such as Lerch’s treatment of Waccamaw Sioux powwows (in Bonney and Paredes) is necessary in order to explore the detailed and nuanced ways in which Southeastern Indians are not just like other southerners...

... Powwows (as they are generally referred to) were a sort of Manitou. On their shoulders rested the great responsibility of understanding and working with Manitou power. They had uncommon powers, and had been selected and trained to use them at an early age, but their very powerfulness made them...

... became popular in the 1960s, with faculty serving as de facto managers and booking agents for off-campus gigs. Campus powwows with large regional draws gained centrality in the ensuing years. Today, relatives and members of the local native population donate regalia for the dancers, while both male...

... . McMullen Ann . 1996 . “ Soapbox Discourse: Tribal Historiography, Indian-White Relations, and Southeastern New England Powwows .” Public Historian 18 , no. 4 : 53 – 74 . Melish Joanne Pope . 1998 . Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and “Race” in New England, 1780–1860 . Ithaca...

..., index. $70.00 cloth.) Clyde Ellis, Elon University Matthew Krystal is interested in “the representation of indigenous life and culture in four varied forms of public performance identified as ‘dance K’iche Maya traditional dance; Native American powwows; Latin Ameri- can folkloric dances...

... is interested in “the representation of indigenous life and culture in four varied forms of public performance identified as ‘dance K’iche Maya traditional dance; Native American powwows; Latin Ameri- can folkloric dances; and the Indian mascot Chief Illiniwek at the Univer- sity of Illinois (xv...

... traditional dance; Native American powwows; Latin Ameri- can folkloric dances; and the Indian mascot Chief Illiniwek at the Univer- sity of Illinois (xv). Attracted by what he sees as dancing’s inherent ability to reveal how communities construct and negotiate ideas about identity, Krystal also believes...

...; Native American powwows; Latin Ameri- can folkloric dances; and the Indian mascot Chief Illiniwek at the Univer- sity of Illinois (xv). Attracted by what he sees as dancing’s inherent ability to reveal how communities construct and negotiate ideas about identity, Krystal also believes...

... is interested in “the representation of indigenous life and culture in four varied forms of public performance identified as ‘dance K’iche Maya traditional dance; Native American powwows; Latin Ameri- can folkloric dances; and the Indian mascot Chief Illiniwek at the Univer- sity of Illinois (xv...

..., index. $70.00 cloth.) Clyde Ellis, Elon University Matthew Krystal is interested in “the representation of indigenous life and culture in four varied forms of public performance identified as ‘dance K’iche Maya traditional dance; Native American powwows; Latin Ameri- can folkloric dances...

... is interested in “the representation of indigenous life and culture in four varied forms of public performance identified as ‘dance K’iche Maya traditional dance; Native American powwows; Latin Ameri- can folkloric dances; and the Indian mascot Chief Illiniwek at the Univer- sity of Illinois (xv...

...; Native American powwows; Latin Ameri- can folkloric dances; and the Indian mascot Chief Illiniwek at the Univer- sity of Illinois (xv). Attracted by what he sees as dancing’s inherent ability to reveal how communities construct and negotiate ideas about identity, Krystal also believes...

... life and culture in four varied forms of public performance identified as ‘dance K’iche Maya traditional dance; Native American powwows; Latin Ameri- can folkloric dances; and the Indian mascot Chief Illiniwek at the Univer- sity of Illinois (xv). Attracted by what he sees as dancing’s inherent...