Music & Song

Discusses the interpretation of the residential school experience of the Stó:lõ people who attended St. Mary’s Indian Residential School and played in its band between 1962 and 1984. Ethnohistory Field School, 2009.

Traces the history of a one-hundred-year-old caribou skin men's dancing garment (kapitaq) from the moment the caribou was killed, through construction of the garment by an Inuinnait woman, its acquisition by the museum, loan to Juliette Gaultier de la Verendrye for use in her stage performances, and finally back to the museum's cold storage. History research essay towards a Master of Arts.

Looks at disparity between needs of a community and the needs of a researcher regarding a study of the effects of the media and cross-cultural transmission on the musical play of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children in two towns in Australia.

Website of a nonprofit organization based on Six Nations of the Grand River in Ontario established to preserve and nurture Iroquoian languages and songs.

The fiddle music of two western Manitoba communities demonstrates both First Nation and European influences, combined to form a new style.

Music Thesis (M.F.A.)--York University, 1986.

Various songs of the Omaha peoples are described.

Explains how the use of Blues, used mainly as an expression of the African-American struggle, is appropriate as an accompaniment to the play Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing. Entire journal on one pdf. Scroll down to page 113 to read article.

Book review of: On the Translation of Native American Literatures edited by Brian Swann. To read review, scroll to page 106.

Consists of an interview and the singing of various ceremonial songs.

Consists of an interview and the singing of various ceremonial songs.

Critical review of a 2014 run of the play Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Details the ways in which the play promotes racialized language and slurs, misinformation about, and the mistreatment of Indigenous people.

Comments on dance originating with the Kiowa or Comanche in Oklahoma between 1911 and 1918.

On back of photo: From left to right: D. McGregor, A. McKenzie, T. Powers, R. Gwynne, G. Bird (or Nelson), Robt. McKay, Blaine Goodfellow, J. Wheatley, R.B. Way, Andrew Nelson, F.W. Shea, Tom Murphy, Chas. McWilliams (son of Presb Minister), Bandmaster L.R. St. Louis and dog Boxer. Taken at River St. and 1st Ave West on the occasion of the arrival of Relief Expedition from Eastern Canada in the Riel Rebellion 1885. Original picture is in the cairn at the Nesbitt (Nisbet) Memorial Cairn on River St. West."

Book review of: The Osage and the Invisible World : From the Works of Francis La Flesche introduction and edited by Garrick A. Bailey.

Looks at the drumming group Otter Trail Singers from Lawton, Oklahoma, who preform at powwows in the United States and Canada. Includes audio reviews.

Looks at the Anchorage based band Pamyua's.

Comments on a novel which features an American Indian blues band named Coyote Springs.

Website contains aggregation of visual, material and sonic collections based on the work Edward S. Curtis, the early 20th century photographer and amateur ethnographer who created the monumental 20 volume The North American Indian. The 25,000 media assets are accompanied by scholarly and contextual materials.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2009.

Examines how cultural displays for non-Aboriginal audiences, which were sometimes revised for public presentation, were used as a method to increase political legitimacy.

Interview with Saskatchewan born Métis rapper about his music and style.

Looks at the development, growth and performance tours of the Phoenix Indian School Band in Arizona.

36 images of Physically Challenged Children at a Christmas party at HMCS Unicorn in Saskatoon on December 13, 1975. Scanned here are six images of Native dancers who performed for the children.

Photograph of brass band marching in traditional dress with head dresses. Inscription on back reads: " Piegan Brass Band at For Macleod Indian Stampede, 1925."

Interview of Mr. Harper that includes stories about the Lousy Ones and Scar Face.

Consists of an interview about various aspects of the Pigeon Society; the role of various members; women in the society; competing for wives; the Crow Carriers Society; the Brave Society including a story of a fight against the Cree when the enemy was scared away by the dancing of the Braves; and the Scaping dance.

Consists of an interview about the acquisition of the Pigeon Society by the Blood Indians; the ceremonials of the Pigeon Society, including the transfer of bundles.

Guide to accompany the Cree opera. Includes explanation of the plot and interviews with Tomson Highway, Melissa Hui, and Michael Greyeyes.

Comments on the characteristics of child-created music and the main rhythmic models and their variants.

Looks at the sociocultural dynamics the musicians encounter while on tour.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northern Arizona University, 2002.

[Clinical Psychology] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Adler University, 2015.

Interview with singer Wesley Royce Stops also known as HvnSent.

Need to return to traditional format of Indian ceremonies is discussed.

Several speakers voice concerns about changes that have crept in to the ceremonies. Recall how things were done in former times and stress need to return to old ways.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2019.

Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--South Dakota State University, 2002.

Comments on the important role the master of ceremonies or emcee plays in the success of the powwow.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 1981.

Review essay examines definitions, focus and knowledge of powwow music from within three books: Intertribal Native American Music in the United States: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture by John-Carlos Perea. Recording Culture: Powwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Industry on the Northern Plains by Christopher A. Scales. Encyclopedia of Native American Music of North America by Elaine Keillor, Tim Archambault, John M. H. Kelly.

Ethnomusicology and Musicology Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2001.

Gives catechisms, prayer and hymns in the Tsattine language in syllabics.

A photograph of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and his wife Olive enjoying a Drum dance presented to them at Inuvik, NWT in July, 1961.

Folklore and Ethnomusicology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2005.