Later Native American Music Making

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Lewis Cass

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Governor of Michigan Territory, quoted a Miami Indian song- "I will go and get my friends-I will go and get my friends-I am anxious to see my enemies. A clear sky is my friend, and it is him I am seeking."

Specific purpose? to recruit volunteers for a mission of war.

Page 238.

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George Copway- 1847

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Ojibwa born in Ontario.
Parents converted to methodism
Preacher in Illinois.

Published a memoir that included the five-line "Dream Song"

Copway said he received song at 12 for the god of the winds himself. Supernatural powers

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George Copway's Dream Song

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It is I who travel in the winds,
It is I who whisper in the breeze,
I shake the trees,
I shake the earth,
I trouble the waters on every land.

page 240

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William "Buffalo Bill" Cody

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A plains hunter turned showman.

Began in 1882, included real indians, whites were the good guys and Indians the enemy, a conflict carried over into other popular forms-
pulp fiction
dime novels
western movies

Indian stereotypes emphasized

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Theodore Baker

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1882- American music historian

Published Uber die Musik der nordamerikanischen Wilden (On the Music of the North American Indians) - Doctoral dissertation at Leipzig Univ.

Hailed as 1st scholarly treatment of American Indian music (from Seneca reservation in NY)

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Alice C. Fletcher 242-245

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1893 report on the music of the Ohama tribe was the first of hermany scholarly contributions.

Emphasized the subject's scientific interest, accurate data

Transcribed "The Omaha Tribe" and "Ritual. Song of Approach"

Indian scale could not be illustrated on the piano, no notation either to make feasible

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Amy Beach

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Based concert works on Indian melodies during the 1890's

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Edward MacDowell

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Used Baker's doctoral to compose his "Indian" Suite - consisted of reading and consulting his own imagination.

Song of Hiawatha (also explained on page 235 of book)