music quiz 2

Tribe- Iroquois confederation

Where- Six nations reserve, Ontario Canada

Summary-

• “Ho wey Hey Yo” is a women’s shuffle dance song (Eskanye) danced by women during social events called “sings”. Held in longhouses or community centers.

• Uses vocables

• leader vs. group style, has a relaxed, open throated vocal style

• has an Iroquois water drum and cow horn rattle.

Tribe- Yuchi

Where- Oklahoma

Summary- “stomp dance” is a social all night outdoor dance event held on tribal ceremonial ground. Call and response style alternating men and women, in a line dance format. Women wear shell or tin can leg rattles. Starts by calling dancers together, fallowed by 8 songs using vocables

Tribe- Navajo

Where- southwest (mostly Arizona and New Mexico)

Summary- “yeibachi “ has gourd rattles, all vocables, and alternates sections of falsetto voice and chest voice. Performed as part of the “nightway” healing ceremony

Tribe-Navajo

Where- Southwest (Mostly Arizona and New Mexico)

Summary- “shizhanee. Circle dance song” is part of the “enemy way” healing ceremony. Has all vocables and uses comedically text.

Tribe-Navajo

Where-Southwest (Mostly Arizona and New Mexico)

Summary- “hymn of the Native American church” has a water drum and peyote rattle, all vocables, and a smooth melody. An all night Native American church song and a 19th century religious movement combining native traditions with Christian beliefs.

Tribe- Ojiwbwa

Where- NW Ontario, Canada

Summary- “straight up” powwow song includes one large drum with a group of men sitting around it playing and singing. May accompany powwow dance competitions, northern plain style, uses covables, has “terraced” descending melody. Repeated 4 times, lead singer is ansered by the drum group, accompanied by distinctive drumming beats

Tribe-Ojibwa

Where- Ontario Canada

Summary- “thuggish and huggin”(powwow round dance song)has the same song form as “straight up”, but includes an English language lyric in the b and charts. Has one large drum, vocables and humorous flirting text.

Tribe-Navajo

Where- Southwest(mostly Arizona and New Mexico)

Summary- “origins” by R. Carlos Noki, a Navajo flutist, includes the marimba, cello, synthesizer, and Indian flute. Common themes in his music include respect for the environment, tribal connections, and harmony with nature. This song is a commercial recording

Tribe-Navajo and Dakota influences

Where-

Summary- “reservation of education” is a rock song by XIT, during the 1070s AIM movement and red power movement. Includes the electric guitar,bass guitar, and drum set, English text, but incorporating a Navajo phrase. Song about social and political marginalization of American indians and Hollywood type stereotyping

Tribe- Métis

Where- Canada

Summary- “bill C-31 Blues” song by Asani, woman’s trio, 1950s popular music style. Uses humor to talk about a Canadian law called Bill C-31, which changed the way tat individuals are defined as Native American

Tribe- Mohawk

Where- six nations reserve Ontario Canada

Summary-devil came down Sunday by Derek miller is a blues rock song with electric guitar, bass guitar, and drum set. Refers to the devil and crossroads, as a brief reference to “Mohawk road”

Powwow

An intertribal celebration of NA culture and identity with competitions, dance, and religion

Water drum

Used in the NA church. A small iron pod with 3 legs and a wet buckskin drumhead half filled with water

Vocables

Non-lexical syllables, used in songs and have no specific meaning

Medicine man

Traditional Native American healer (popular among Navajo) that uses medicine, songs, and prayer to heal and guide people

Native American church

Mid to late 19th century religious movement which became popular among NAs especially in the south west. Combines traditional native a,erican elements with Christian elements

Aboriginal

The first inhabitants of land. Used to be common within the us when referencing NAs

Ojibwa

Native American tribe from parts of northern US (Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan)and Canada

Yuchi/ Creek

A minority group within the creek (Muscogee) Native American tribe in Oklahoma

Iroquois/ haudenosaunee

A political alliance of 6 NA tribes (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca,Cayuga, tuscarooura. They share a common culture and of. Based on the great law of peace. Mainly from MY and Canada

Navajo

Largest Native American tribe in the U.S. with over 300,000 people from the southwest, mainly Arizona and New Mexico

Nightway

Navajo (southwest, mostly Arizona and New Mexico) healing ceremony where masked dancers impersonate ancestor gods to bring supernatuaal power and blessings to cure a sick person

Enunyway

Navajo (southwest, mostly Arizona and New Mexico) healing ceremony held to cures patient who is haunted by the memory or ghost of a dead non-native

Ghost dance

A late 1800s Native American relgious movement that used songs and dances to bring hope, spiritual renewal, and the return of lost lands and ancestors

Escanye

A social dace song and woman’s shuffle dance tradition of the haudonausee in Ontario. Call and response singing with water drum and cow horn rattle

Regalia

Traditional clothing and accessories worn by NA during ceremonies and dances. Includes feathers, and beadwork that reflect a family individual, or tribal identity