Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs Arranged from American Indian Ceremonials and Sports

Name: Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs Arranged from American Indian Ceremonials and Sports
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ISBN: 9780548123195

ISBN-10: 0548123195

ISBN-13: 9780548123195

Edition: N/A

Authors: Alice C. Fletcher

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One day Alice C. Fletcher realized that unlike my Indian friends, I was an alien, a stranger in my native land. But while living with the Indians and pursuing her ethnological studies she felt that the plants, the trees, the clouds and all things had become vocal with human hopes, fears, and supplications. This famous statement comes directly from the preface of this book and was later etched on her tombstone. I have arranged these dances and games with native songs in order that our young people may recognize, enjoy and share in the spirit of the olden life upon this continent, she wrote. Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs is a collection that conveys the pleasure and meaning of…

Book details

List price: $36.95
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Alice C. Fletcher, the foremost woman anthropologist in the United States in the nineteenth century, is also the author, with Francis La Flesche, of "A Study of Omaha Indian Music" and the two-volume "Omaha Tribe," Both titles are available as Bison Books. Helen Myers is the coauthor of "Folk Music in the United States: An Introduction,"