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One day Alice C. Fletcher realized that unlike my Indian friends I was analien a stranger in my native land. But while living with the Indians andpursuing her ethnological studies she felt that the plants the trees theclouds and all things had become vocal with human hopes fears andsupplications. This famous statement comes directly from the preface of thisbook and was later etched on her tombstone. I have arranged these dances andgames with native songs in order that our young people may recognize enjoy andshare in the spirit of the olden life upon this continent she wrote. IndianGames and Dances with Native Songs is a collection that conveys the pleasureand meaning of music and play and rhythmic movement for American Indians. Manyof the activities here described are adapted from ceremonials and sports.Included is a drama in five dances celebrating the life of corn. Calling theFlowers is an appeal to spirits dwelling underground to join the dancers.Still another dramatic dance with accompanying songs petitions clouds toleave the sky. The Festival of Joy an ancient Omaha ceremony is centered on asacred tree. In the second part Indian ball games and games of hazard andguessing are set forth as well as the popular hoop and javelin game. Fletchercloses with a section on Indian names. Alice C. Fletcher the foremost womananthropologist in the United States in the nineteenth century is also theauthor with Francis La Flesche of A Study of Omaha Indian Music and the twovolume Omaha Tribe. Both titles are available as Bison Books. Helen Myers isthe coauthor of Folk Music in the United States An Introduction. «
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