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The Blackfoot, purportedly known as such because of their dark-colored moccasins, originally ranged across the northern Great Plains region (Montana, Alberta, and Saskatchewan). These recordings, made in different settings from the late 1890s to the mid-1960s, capture a period when Blackfoot lifestyle, culture, and music underwent major change. They also represent evolving fieldwork recording methods during those seven decades, as phonocylinders and phonowire gave way to tape recording. Album Tracks 1. Beaver Medicine Song Marmot Song / Antelope Song / Black Deer Song (Medley) 2. Four Short Medicine Pipe Songs 3. Medicine Pipe Song 4. Sun Dance Song (1-3) 5. Scalp Song 6. Warrior's Song 7. Wolf Song 8. Crazy Dog Society Song 9. Lullaby 10. Lullaby (Baby Song) 11. Night Love Song 12. Gambling Song 13. Gambling Song (1-3) 14. War or Grass Dance Song 15. Fast War or Grass Dance Song 16. Fast War or Grass Dance Song 17. War or Grass Dance Songs (Excerpts) 18. Owl Dance Song 19. Owl Dance Song (1-2)
