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...Damon Akins A Chemehuevi Song: The Resilience of a Southern Paiute Tribe . By Trafzer Clifford E. . Foreword by Myers Larry . ( Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2015 . xx+307 pp., foreword, preface and acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, glossary, notes...

...James McClurken Blackbird's Song: Andrew J. Blackbird and the Odawa People . By Karamanski Theodore J. . ( East Lansing : Michigan State University Press , 2012 . xix + 313 pp., introduction, references, index . $39.95 cloth.) Copyright 2014 by American Society for Ethnohistory...

...Linda M. Clemmons Song of Dewey Bird: Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn . By Philip Burnham . ( Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2014 . xvii +247 pp., illustrations, preface, acknowledgments, introduction, notes, bibliography, index. $19.95 paperback.) Copyright 2020...

... by “rock-style” bands at urban festivals, holidays, political rallies, and rites of passage. Originally this music was highly political, forbidden because it critiqued colonial and postcolonial domination and warned of threats to the Tuareg's cultural survival. Although songs now address broader themes...

.... The article also examines how the Guaraní brought their own knowledge of the soul-word and its close connections to language, dream songs, and speech to the Jesuit project of spiritual discernment and Guaraní-Christian subject formation. [email protected] Copyright 2022 by American Society...

...Miranda Warburton; Richard M. Begay Through a rich body of traditional Navajo narrative, poetry, and song we examine the relationship of Navajo people to the Anasazi. This corpus includes descriptions of initial interactions and of intermarriage between ancestral Navajos and Anasazis...

... in first person, Jowosi feature heroic encounters that have taken place between the singer himself (or one of his paternal relatives) and a non-Kayabi enemy. As songs that describe encounters with other in- digenous peoples, as well as with non-Indians who have interacted with Kayabis as the Brazilian...

...). To designate this Dominican the most accomplished Zapotec rhetorician, Farriss sidesteps the inconvenient fact that a unique example of Zapotec ceremonial discourse survived colonization: two collections of Northern Zapotec songs focusing on cosmological narratives and ancestor worship, and accompanied...

... the Little Water Medicine Society and other elements of traditional Seneca and Iroquoian culture. They explain the functioning of this society, its origin, and its operations. In addition to transcriptions of activities and songs, the book contains many lengthy quotes by informants and floor plan drawings...

... Wellington, ‘‘the Song’’ in which all are bound to join under penalty of death. This Song is esteemed sacred by the natives, who apprehend that if they should not be present at the singing of it they would die.10 Although...

..., and beaded items. Additionally, curates historic photographs, maps, documents, and recordings of family songs and oral histories. also curates and exhibits a remarkable col- lection of precontact artifacts from Ozette...

..., and materiality. The bulk of his analyses of musical performances come in the next three chapters. Chapter 3 examines performances bringing early music (Western classical) together with Indigenous music and/or Indigenous musicians, albeit in different ways, while chapter 4 takes on the issue of songs...

... a then unspecified number of traditional songs from one informant, a Father Prosper Vincent whom he had previously met years before at a college assembly. He believed they were ethnographically valuable: ‘‘I know that some of these songs (if not all) will be very interest- 32 ing he told Sapir...

... the medicine, its origins, and other component rituals. Fenton provides details of specific song cycles that accompany ritual sequences of activity and spatial patternings of peoples and objects from performances at different times and places. These complex relationships are murky due to the lack...

...., who is in his early seventies, elaborated on the status of what was being presented. He (Brown said that the dances and songs that were used in the Bowl were of the ‘‘fun-type an indigenous category that had been...

..., just as José Leonardo broke that of slavery more than two hundred years ago.” 3 After several songs were performed, many of the state functionaries returned to Coro; the rest of the participants moved to the town of Macanilla in the tropical valley of Curimagua, where the rebellion had begun. 4...

... Voices . Miller outlines his argument in the preface, providing a refrain repeated throughout the book: “In all, mounds mimic the Earth, as a microcosm built and maintained by human hands, tools, sweat, and prayers, paced by rituals, songs, and dances. Built of earth, strengthened with internal...

...- tent but not in context, of Ella Deloria’s Waterlily. Red Shirt utilizes Lakota songs collected and transcribed by Frances Densmore as well as ethno- graphic material collected in Lakota by doctor/ethnographer James Walker, Tseng 2003.5.6 08:56...

... song texts as ethnopoetic literature and wrote them out as he heard them, line for line. He was a native speaker of Greenlandic Eskimo, which served as a medium of communication throughout his trip. At the beginning of the voyage we meet Aua, the angakoq who gave Ras- mussen the song of Uvavnuk...

... violent death by drowning are celebrated in Russianpoetic song narratives In fact, it was Ermak who drowned and the songs mourn his death. The pace of the narrative picks up in the chapter titled ‘‘Regionaliza...