Digital Collections

Reference List

General Native Music Information Sources:

Densmore, Frances. American Indians and Their Music.

Johnson, Thomas F. Eskimo Music by Region: A comparative Circumpolar Study. National Museum of Man: Ottawa, 1976.

McGrath, James. My Music Reaches to the Sky. Center for the Arts of Indian America: New Mexico, 1974.

O'Brien, James P. Music in World Cultures. Kendal/Hunt Publishing Company: Iowa, 1994.

Prokosch-Kurath, Gertrude. Dance and Song Rituals of Six Nations Reserve, Ontario. National Museum of Canada: Ottawa, 1968.

Sargent, Margaret, The Native and Primitive Music of Canada. Queens University: Kingston, Ontario, c.1966.

Sound of the Drum. Woodland Cultural Centre: Brantford, Ontario, 1990.

Native Music Listings and Transcriptions:

Fletcher, Alice C. Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs: Arranged from American Indian Ceremonials and Sports. University of Nabraska Press: Lincoln, 1994.

Gombert, Greg. Guide to Native American Music Recordings. Multicultural Publishing: Fort Collins, Colorado, 1994.

The Canadian Mosaic: Teaching Native and Multicultural Music in the Classroom. Board of Education for the City of Scarborough: Scarborough, 1992.

Moving Within the Circle: Contemporary Native American Music and Dance. World Music Press: Danbury, Connecticut, 1993.

Native Music Recordings:

Lee, Dorothy Sara. Native North American Music and Oral Data: Catalogue of Sound Recordings, 1843-1976. Indian University Press: Bloomington, Indiana, 1979.

The Canadian Journal of Native Studies. Brandon, Manitoba, 1988. ISSN: 0715-3244.

Honor the Earth Pow Wow: Songs of the Great Lakes Indians. RYKO Publishers: Salem, Massachusetts, 1991.

Pow Wow Songs.

Curriculum Guidelines:

Curriculum Guideline, Music, Intermediate and Senior Divisions, Ministry of Education for Ontario: Toronto, Ontario, 1990.

Curriculum Guideline, History and Contemporary Studies, Intermediate Division, Ministry of Education for Ontario: Toronto, Ontario, 1986.

Curriculum Guideline, Native Studies, Intermediate Division, Ministry of Education for Ontario: Toronto, Ontario, 1991.

Stories, Poems, Legends, Pictures:

Colombo, John Robert, ed. Poems of The Inuit. Oberon Press: Canada, 1981.

Lowenstein, Tom (translator). Eskimo Poems from Canada and Greenland, University of Pittsburg Press, Pittsburg, 1973.

Nungak, Zebedee, and Eugene Arima. Inuit Stories / Legendes Inuit / Povungnituk. Canadian Museum of Civilization: Hull, Quebec, 1988.

Pelly, David F. Images of Inuit Life. Oxford University Press: Toronto, 1986.

Alternatives:

Native culture is fundamentally and oral culture and written text is therefore not necessary easily found. These are simply recommended sources that proved useful in my organization of this unit. Every major city should have a Native, Aboriginal, or First Nations Center. Contact those centers for additional assistance. Furthermore, most Teacher Resource Centers will have some information on Native, Aboriginal, or First Nations Cultures. You may have to hunt, but the information is there!