The Dream Dance, an examination of its music and practice among woodlands and central subarctic Indians

The Dream Dance religion, which originated among the Santee Sioux of North Dakota around 1870, was subsequently transferred to the Minnesota Ojibwe, where it became an important ceremony of the Indian nations west and south of Lake Superior. The requirement for the transfer of the ceremony, together...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaczmarek, Josephine Agnes
Language:English
Published: 2007
Subjects:
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1993/1694
id ftcanadathes:oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:MWU.anitoba.ca/dspace#1993/1694
record_format openpolar
spelling ftcanadathes:oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:MWU.anitoba.ca/dspace#1993/1694 2023-05-15T18:28:25+02:00 The Dream Dance, an examination of its music and practice among woodlands and central subarctic Indians Kaczmarek, Josephine Agnes 2007-05-18T12:17:21Z 7381807 bytes 184 bytes application/pdf text/plain http://hdl.handle.net/1993/1694 en en_US eng http://hdl.handle.net/1993/1694 2007 ftcanadathes 2013-11-23T21:30:06Z The Dream Dance religion, which originated among the Santee Sioux of North Dakota around 1870, was subsequently transferred to the Minnesota Ojibwe, where it became an important ceremony of the Indian nations west and south of Lake Superior. The requirement for the transfer of the ceremony, together with the Drum, dance attire, and the special songs and dances which are integral to the ceremony, are believed to have taken the Dream Dance as far north as the Berens River region of Manitoba and northwestern Ontario. This belief is based on historical evidence: information pieced together from journals, letters, photographs and personal interviews. In the course of the more recent investigations, former participants in the Berens River ceremonies shared some of the songs which formed part of their ceremony. It is on these songs that this paper focuses. The process involved a comparison of the two ceremonies, and a comprehensive examination and analysis of the musicological features of the ceremonial songs fromboth regions. It was determined that although each ceremony likely served a different purpose, the songs performed in the Berens Rivers ceremony, allowing for certain specified variations, derived from that of the Dream Dance ceremony. Other/Unknown Material Subarctic Theses Canada/Thèses Canada (Library and Archives Canada) Indian
institution Open Polar
collection Theses Canada/Thèses Canada (Library and Archives Canada)
op_collection_id ftcanadathes
language English
description The Dream Dance religion, which originated among the Santee Sioux of North Dakota around 1870, was subsequently transferred to the Minnesota Ojibwe, where it became an important ceremony of the Indian nations west and south of Lake Superior. The requirement for the transfer of the ceremony, together with the Drum, dance attire, and the special songs and dances which are integral to the ceremony, are believed to have taken the Dream Dance as far north as the Berens River region of Manitoba and northwestern Ontario. This belief is based on historical evidence: information pieced together from journals, letters, photographs and personal interviews. In the course of the more recent investigations, former participants in the Berens River ceremonies shared some of the songs which formed part of their ceremony. It is on these songs that this paper focuses. The process involved a comparison of the two ceremonies, and a comprehensive examination and analysis of the musicological features of the ceremonial songs fromboth regions. It was determined that although each ceremony likely served a different purpose, the songs performed in the Berens Rivers ceremony, allowing for certain specified variations, derived from that of the Dream Dance ceremony.
author Kaczmarek, Josephine Agnes
spellingShingle Kaczmarek, Josephine Agnes
The Dream Dance, an examination of its music and practice among woodlands and central subarctic Indians
author_facet Kaczmarek, Josephine Agnes
author_sort Kaczmarek, Josephine Agnes
title The Dream Dance, an examination of its music and practice among woodlands and central subarctic Indians
title_short The Dream Dance, an examination of its music and practice among woodlands and central subarctic Indians
title_full The Dream Dance, an examination of its music and practice among woodlands and central subarctic Indians
title_fullStr The Dream Dance, an examination of its music and practice among woodlands and central subarctic Indians
title_full_unstemmed The Dream Dance, an examination of its music and practice among woodlands and central subarctic Indians
title_sort dream dance, an examination of its music and practice among woodlands and central subarctic indians
publishDate 2007
url http://hdl.handle.net/1993/1694
geographic Indian
geographic_facet Indian
genre Subarctic
genre_facet Subarctic
op_relation http://hdl.handle.net/1993/1694
_version_ 1766210900591640576