Fish Creek From the North
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Image from the north of Fish Creek, Saskatchewan during the Northwest Resistance.
Highlights Gerald Okanee, lead singer of Saskatchewan's Big Bear Singers, who shares his knowledge about the drum and how the beat pits the powwow dancer's style against that of the the drummer's, sometimes "bucking off" the dancer.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.19.
Talk given at Presence of the Past: The Third National Conference on Teaching, Learning and Communicating the History of Canada, October 2003. Duration: 34:18.