Spirit of the First People: Native American Music Traditions of Washington State

by Smyth, Willie; Ryan, Esme

• ISBN13: 9780295977324
• ISBN10: 0295977329
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr

Summary

This book and accompanying compact disk offer a rare glimpse into Native American cultural and sacred traditions of song and dance. The book and CD are the result of a multi-year collaboration among the members of Washington State's tribes, Jack Straw Productions, the Northwest Folklife Festival, and the Washington State Arts Commission's Folk Arts Program. 54 illustrations, 22 in color.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction
VI [TAQwSeBLU] Hilbert	3	(3)
Singers, Dancers, Dreamers, Travelers
Native American Song Traditions, Musical Instruments, and Dance Regalia in Washington State	6	(19)
Roberta Haines
Seeds of Our Ancestors
Growing Up in the Skokomish Song Tradition	25	(20)
Bruce-Subiyay Miller
The Circle of Song	45	(6)
Cliff Sijohn
Native Songs and Seasonal Food-Gathering Traditions	51	(11)
Jeanette Timentwa
Rebecca Chamberlain
Native Songs Taught by Ellen W. Saluskin (Hoptonix Sawyalilx)	62	(10)
Virginia R. Beavert-Martin
Song Traditions of the Yakama	72	(45)
Brycene A. Neaman
Makah Music
Preserving the Traditions	81	(25)
Linda J. Goodman
Helma Swan
Native Music of the Pacific Northwest
A Washington State Perspective	106	(11)
Loran Olsen
Song Traditions of the Indian Shaker Church	117	(69)
James Everett Cunningham
Pamela Amoss
Songs from the Coast, Sound, and Plateau
Native American Music Traditions in Washington Today	134	(14)
Willie Smyth
Appendixes
Ten Early Ethnographers in the Northwest
Recordings from Washington State	148	(21)
Laurel Sercombe
Creating and Disseminating Ethnographic Recordings
Washington State Materials in Washington, D.C.	169	(12)
Judith A. Gray
Melville Jacobs and Early Ethnographic Recordings in the Northwest	181	(5)
William R. Seaburg
Bibliography	186	(9)
Index	195