This little book took its rise in the following experience that came to me many years ago when living with the Indians in their homes and pursuing my etnological studies.....

Indian Games and Dances With Native Songs: Arranged from American Indian Ceremonials and Sports

Politics & Social Sciences

Fletcher, Alice C.

Social Sciences

Ams Pr Inc

At the Congress of Musicians held in connection with the Trans-M ississippi Exposition at Omaha in Julyi l8g8f several essays upon the songs of the North American Indians were read, in illustration of which a number of Omaha I ndians, for the first time, sang their native melodies to an audience largely composed of trained musicians. This unique presentation not only demonstrated the scientific value of these aboriginal songs in the study of the development of music, but suggested their availability as themes, novel and characteristic, for the American composer. It was felt that this availability would be greater if the story or the ceremony which gave rise to the song, could be known, so that, in developing the them,e, all the movements might be consonant with the circumstances that had inspired the motive. In response to the expressed desire of many musicians, I have here given a number of songs in their matrix of story. Material like that brought together in these pages has hitherto appeared only in scientific publications, where it has attracted the lively interest of specialists both in Europe and A merica.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org

Indian Story and Song from North America

Arts & Photography

Music

Indian Story and Song From North America

Wentworth Press

Indian Story And Song: From North America

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Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

Indian Games And Dances With Native Songs: Arranged From American Indian Ceremonials And Sports

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Kessinger Publishing

Alice C. Fletcher (1838–1923), one of the few women who became anthropologists in the United States during the nineteenth century, was a pioneer in the practice of participant-observation ethnography. She focused her studies over many years among the Native tribes in Nebraska and South Dakota. Life among the Indians, Fletcher’s popularized autobiographical memoir written in 1886–87 about her first fieldwork among the Sioux and the Omahas during 1881–82, remained unpublished in Fletcher’s archives at the Smithsonian Institution for more than one hundred years. In it Fletcher depicts the humor and hardships of her field experiences as a middle-aged woman undertaking anthropological fieldwork alone, while showing genuine respect and compassion for Native ways and beliefs that was far ahead of her time. What emerges is a complex and fascinating picture of a woman questioning the cultural and gender expectations of nineteenth-century America while insightfully portraying rapidly changing reservation life. Fletcher’s account of her early fieldwork is available here for the first time, accompanied by an essay by the editors that sheds light on Fletcher’s place in the development of anthropology and the role of women in the discipline.

Life among the Indians: First Fieldwork among the Sioux and Omahas (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians)

University Of Nebraska Press

Investigates the origin and tribal organization of the Omahas and examines their social and religious customs

The Omaha Tribe

History

Americas

Univ of Nebraska Pr

Omaha Tribe

LA Flesche, Francis

The Omaha Tribe is considered by some anthropologists to be the most important and comprehensive study ever written about a Native American tribe. First published in 1911 as a report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, this classic treatise is based on twenty-nine years of study and observation in the field. "Nothing has been borrowed from other observers," Alice C. Fletcher asserts. "Only original material gathered directly from the native people has been used, and the writer has striven to make so far as possible the Omaha his own interpreter."
Volume I is devoted to tribal origins and early history, beliefs about the environment, rites pertaining to the individual, tribal organization and government, the sacred pole, and the quest for food. Volume II, also available as a Bison Book, considers language, social life, music, religion, warfare, treatment of disease, and death and burial customs.

The Omaha Tribe, Volume 1

Bison Books

Originally published in 1911 by the Bureau of American Ethnology, The Omaha Tribe is an irreplaceable classic, the collaboration of a pioneering anthropologist and a prominent Omaha ethnologist.
Volume II takes up the language, social life, music, religion, warfare, healing practices, and death and burial customs of the Omahas. The first volume covered tribal origins and early history, organization and government, various beliefs and rites, and food gathering.

The Omaha Tribe, Volume 2

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