Index
[ Index accordion (kashehischbitaak anowiich), 32 ahcak (spirits), 26 Amtmann, Willy, 33 animal(s): as benefactors, 121; communication with, 51, 65, 71; cyclical patterns and, 15, 48, 55; domesticated and wild, 87; in dream, 54; as helpers, 70; respect for, 15; in song, 22, 87; spirit hears name if spoken aloud, 65; supreme spirit of, 52; as wife, 52 animals, types of: bear, 2, 51; bear (polar), 62, 65; beaver, 2, 52, 54, 56, 58, 154; caribou , 55; fish, 2, 58, 70–71; fox, 2, 54, 56, 58; fox (red), 132; goose, 57, 132; loon, 2; otter, 2, 54; partridge, 2, 69; seagull, 53, 71; snowbird, 2; waterfowl, 21; whale, 62; wolf, 22 atosh, 28–30 Azure, Ed, 108; background of, 115–17 Bailey, Alfred G., 34 Bates, Violet, 4, 53 Bearskin, Job, 61, 79 Bearskin, Mary, 61 Bearskin, Robert, 48 Beauchamp, Charles, 21, 22 Beaumont, Raymond, 113 Blackned, Robert, 48–49, 62 Blacking, John, 99 Blacksmith, Kenneth, 61, 124 Bloch, Maurice, 110 bodwich, 80–81 Brightman, Robert, 25–26, 39, 48, 53, 65 Brightnose, Jack, 96–97 Brockway, Robert, 92, ix Budd, Rev. Henry, 22 bullroarer, 19 buzzer, 19 canoe, 35 Castell, Robert, 87 Chappell, Edward, 32 Chase, Gilbert, 84 Cheezo, Joseph, 27 children, 24, 28, 61; and hunting songs, 62; respected, 73, 79 children’s songs: looking for lice, teething songs, 62 Chippewa. See Ojibwe Christian, 60, 63, 79 Christianity; 81; Cree traditions and, 82, 83, 86–87, 89, 100, 107 coasters, 6 Coates, Ken, 78, 83 conjurer, 21 Cooper, John M., 19 Craik, Brian, 66 Cree, language of, 14; locations of 13; names of 13, 14; population of, 14 Cree, neighbours of: Algonquin, 14; Dene, 103; Montagnais, 14, 40, 55; Naskapi, 40; Ojibwe, 14 Cree, survival strategies of: family groupings 63, 84, 103; food storage 14, 49; humour 50, 53; hunting skill, 48; independent of Europeans, 32, 33; individual initiative, 63, 70; knowledge of elders, 15; mobility, 14; planning, 15; respect for animals, 52–53; sharing, 14, 82; song, 30. See also hunting songs Cross Lake (Manitoba), 16, 27, 36 country music: artists, 96–99; contexts, 3, 91, 93–95, 98–99, 124; preference for, 92–100; songs, 93, 96–98; sound, 91, 93–94, 98–100 Dakota (Sioux), 114, 156 171 dance(s): rabbit, scarf (ta pi ska kan ni si mo win), 43; step dance, 68; hunting, 107. See also goose dance Densmore, Frances, 21 Dickason, Olive, 77 dreams 54, 80, 87, 123 drum (taawahekan): construction and uses of, 16–20; forbidden, 36, 39; preference for, 34; stories about, 39; hung in tent, 107 drumming, 22, 39, 55, 155 drum keeper, 117 education, 3, 43: curricula, 44; residential school, 43, 97, 102; sedentism, 122 elders 20, 48, 86, 92, 124 Ellis, Henry, 34 Erickson, Robert, 70 European music: Cree opinions of, 33–34; hymns, 78–84; built with chords, 124 Europeans: contact with Cree, 31–33; occupations and music instruments, 34 Evans, Rev. James, 36, 37, 76 Fast, Vera, 38, 76 feast, 21–22, 24; Eat-All, 25 feast song (migoshaw nikamon), 24 federal government, 118, 122–23 Feit, Harvey, 27, 45 fiddle music, 3, 31, 92; background of, 154; revival, 42; “Soldiers Joy,” 42; style, 40–41 fire crackling, 28 first catch song (aschchigothwa gomit nikamon ), 24 Flannery, Regina, 24, 61 Fletcher, A.C., and Francis La Flesche, 114 folk music (musicians), 92–94 food, 24–25 Fossett, Renée, 153 Fletcher, Francis, 84 Francis, Daniel, and Toby Morantz, 32, 154 Fulford, George, 64 fur trade: event, 33; trapping, 121; travel, 35–36; trip, 113 Garrick, Roddy, 16, 20, 23, 27, 62 goose dance: purpose and rituals, 20; roles, 21; singing and drumming, 22; 52, 63, 153 gospel music: contexts, 75, 87–89, 100, 126; songs, 87–89; sound of, 88–89 Grant, Agnes, 43 Grant, George, 124 Grateful Prey, 15, 53 hand games, 105 healers, 123 healing songs, 22–23, 123; and plants, 52, 122, 154; and gatherings, 88 health care, 122–23 homeguard, 34 howled, 22 Hughboy, Harry, 17–18, 65, 100 Hudson’s Bay Company: Charles Fort (Rupert House), 33; men, 40; policy toward Cree, 33–35, 122; posts, 22, 27; records, 113 hunting songs (nikamon): change and trapping , 121; 20–33. See also goose dance hunting songs, contexts: ceremonial, 24–28, 30; personal, 63–64, 86–87; physical environment and, 125 hunting songs, power of, 5, 28, 30, 55 hunting songs, sound of: form, 68–70; melody, 70; rhythm 67–68; singing style, 63; sound ideal, 73–74; vocal timbre, 84...
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