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Spirit of the First People: Native American Music Traditions of Washington State

  • Editor: Ryan, Esme
  • Editor: Smyth, Willie

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Contents

  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Singers, Dancers, Dreamers, Travelers: Native American Song Traditions, Musical Instruments, and Dance Regalia in Washington State
  • Seeds of Our Ancestors: Growing up in the Skokomish Song Tradition
  • The Circle of Song
  • Native Songs and Seasonal Food-Gathering Traditions
  • Native Songs Taught by Ellen W. Saluskin (Hoptonix Sawyalilx)
  • Song Traditions of the Yakama
  • Makah Music: Preserving the Traditions
  • Native Music of the Pacific Northwest: A Washington State Perspective
  • Song Traditions of the Indian Shaker Church
  • Songs from the Coast, Sound, and Plateau: Native American Music Traditions in Washington Today
  • Appendixes
  • Ten Early Ethnographers in the Northwest: Recordings from Washington State
  • Creating and disseminating Ethnographic Recordings: Washington State Materials in Washington, DC
  • Melville Jacobs and Early Ethnographic Recordings in the Northwest
  • Bibliography
  • Index