American Warriors: Songs For Indian Veterans

From the Label The compilation of American Warriors was inspired by a 1994 Congressional mandate to create a memorial honoring Indian war veterans. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this release will be donated to a fund to help create that memorial in Washington, DC. (The fund will be administered by the National Congress of American Indians.) Album producer and Smithsonian ethnomusicologist Thomas Vennum, Jr. calls the collection "...a concept that was long overdue; a recording whose release would draw attention to the often overlooked participation of American Indians in the United States Armed Forces, and at the same time directly honor Indian veterans by helping to create a national memorial for them." A scholar specializing in Native American music and culture, Vennum feels that the album is "an opportunity to reciprocate for the many favors and services that my Indian friends have granted me over the years. Additionally, it defines nearly a decade of collaboration with Mickey Hart in ethnomusicological matters, specifically in American Indian music." Among the most notable collaborations between Hart and Vennum is the 1992 Rykodisc/360º Productions release HONOR THE EARTH POWWOW: Songs of the Great Lakes Indians -- cited by the Library of Congress as the finest powwow recording ever submitted for consideration for their annual Selected List. Featuring performances from six tribes -- Ojibway (Chippewa), Menominee, Blackfeet, Hochunk (Winnebago), Kiowa, and Lakota (Sioux), the 13 tracks on American Warriors document more than a century of Native American participation in warfare. Culled from a variety of sources, American Warriors proffers a broad scope of historical recordings. Included are a protective song used by a warrior in battle with former enemies (the sound source of which is a 1910 wax cylinder recording made by ethnomusicologist Frances Densmore), a 1945 radio broadcast of the Kiowa War Mothers' Chapter Singers from the "Indians for Indians Hour" on KTCA in Norman, Oklahoma, and the performance of five previously unrecorded Lakota Victory Dance songs. The latter, which were composed after the Battle of the Little Bighorn and have been kept alive in Lakota oral tradition, are introduced and performed on American Warriors by Edgar Red Cloud, great-grandson of Lakota Chief Red Cloud (who participated in the 1876 battle which saw George Custer's Army forces routed by Lakota and Northern Cheyenne warriors). Also featured are four Winnebago Service Songs, composed to honor each of the major branches of the armed services (Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines), and performed in succession by the Winnebago Sons, of Baraboo, Wisconsin.
ASIN: B0000009QV
VSKU: DBV.B0000009QV.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Various Artists
Binding: Audio cd
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