Natalie Curtis Burlin: A Life in Native and African American Music

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abbreviations aaa Archives of American Art, Washington dc arcia Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs (Washington dc: Government Printing Office, various years) dama Denver Art Museum Archives, Denver co pcfb The Professional Correspondence of Franz Boas (Wilmington de: Scholarly Resources, 1972) gdcd George DeClyver Curtis Diaries, 1904, George DeClyver Curtis Papers (collection 1247), Department of Special Collections, University Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles hua Hampton University Archives, Hampton va loc Library of Congress, Washington dc naa National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington dc ncba Natalie Curtis Burlin Archives, Raleigh nc introduction 1. “Discours d’Alexandre Mercereau a la memoire de Natalie Curtis Burlin,” ncba (see http://www.nataliecurtis.org). 2. For more on these women see Mullin, Culture in the Marketplace, especially for Sergeant. See also Henderson, Turquoise Trail. 3. Carol Stanley to Elbridge Adams, Dec. 16, 1921 (copied by Augusta Curtis ), ncba. 4. Augusta Curtis to Percy Grainger, May 11, 1923, Percy Grainger Collection , loc. 5. “Natalie Curtis,” 127–40. 6. “Natalie Curtis,” 127–29. 7. “Natalie Curtis,” 133. 8. “Natalie Curtis,” 135–38. 9. “Natalie Curtis,” 139–40. 10. Clements, Native American Verbal Art; Babcock and Parezo, Daughters of the Desert; Parezo, Hidden Scholars. 11. Wood, “Women and Music.” 12. Jacobs, Engendered Encounters; Mullin, Culture in the Marketplace; Packer and Frankiel, “Natural Sympathies”; Babcock and Parezo, Daughters of the Desert; Parezo, Hidden Scholars; Jameson, “Toward a Multicultural History of Women.” 13. Prucha, Great Father; Hoxie, Final Promise. 14. D. W. Adams, Education for Extinction; Lindsey, Indians at Hampton Institute; Mihesuah, Cultivating the Rosebuds; Ellis, To Change Them Forever; Lomawaima, They Called It Prairie Light; Trennert, Phoenix Indian School. 15. N. Curtis, Indians’ Book, xxi. 16. Mark, “Francis LaFlesche”; Gidley, “Cultural Broker.” 17. Said, Orientalism; Torgovnick, Gone Primitive; Dilworth, Imagining Indians in the Southwest; Carr, Inventing the American Primitive. 18. Berkhofer, White Man’s Indian; Deloria, Playing Indian; Huhndorf, Going Native. 19. Southern, Music of Black Americans; Stewart, African American Music; L. Levine, Black Culture and Black Consciousness; William Clements, “’Offshoot’ and the ‘Root.’” 20. Lears, in No Place of Grace, examines a number of themes of antimodernism . I agree with Sherry L. Smith, who argues in Reimagining Indians that some antimodernists who worked with Native Americans did more than just appropriate Native cultures. 1. an “atmosphere of culture and high purpose” 1. George De Clyver Curtis, unpublished biography of Natalie Curtis, 1957, ncba. 2. Henry and May’s son Ephraim (1642–1734) was best known for his development of Worcester and for his dealings with Native Americans in the region. One of his sons, John (1707–1797), was “a prominent citizen” of Worcester as a military commander and leader. His son David (1763–1813), a blacksmith and leading citizen, fathered Natalie’s grandfather George. Henry H. Chamberlin, “George William Curtis and His Antecedents,” 3–4; Shrady, College of Physicians and Surgeons, 410; Milne, George William Curtis, 3. 3. Chamberlin, “George William Curtis and His Antecedents,” 12. 4. Kennedy, “Crisis and Progress,” 18. 5. Milne, George William Curtis, 5. 6. Folpe, It Happened on Washington Square, 70–82; Harris, Around Washington Square, 34–37, 97. 7. Willis, “George Curtis,” 62. 332 8. “George William Curtis” (American), 895; Kennedy, “Crisis and Progress,” 26–28; Cooke, Early Letters, 104. 9. Milne, George William Curtis, 48–49. 10. Kennedy, “Crisis and Progress,” iii. 11. Milne, George William Curtis, 118–21, 174–75. 12. N. Curtis to Elizabeth Day, Oct. 5, 1892, ncba. 13. Milne, George William Curtis, 10–17, 28; Kennedy, “Crisis and Progress, 26–30. 14. “George William Curtis” (Dictionary), 615. 15. Milne, George William Curtis, 90–93, 99, 104. 16. Natalie Curtis, “Life of a Gifted Woman: Elizabeth Burrill Curtis,” Springfield Daily Republican, Apr. 15, 1914. See also Milne, George William Curtis, 104. 17. Kennedy, “Crisis and Progress,” 74, 90–101. 18. McPherson, Abolitionist Legacy, 343. 19. McPherson, Abolitionist Legacy, 40–50, 79. 20. G. W. Curtis, quoted in McPherson, Abolitionist Legacy, 323; see also 318–23. 21. Milne, George William Curtis, 183–84; Kennedy, “Crisis and Progress,” 144–76. 22. N. Curtis, “Life of a Gifted Woman,” 17. 23. N. Curtis, “Life of a Gifted Woman,” 17. 24. N. Curtis, “Life of a Gifted Woman,” 17. 25. Shrady, College of Physicians and Surgeons, 410. 26. Beckert, Monied Metropolis, 36. 27. Shrady, College of Physicians and Surgeons, 411–12. 28. King, King’s Handbook of New York City, 47; McCabe, Lights and Shadows of...