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AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN Analysis Brave Buffalo BULLETIN 61 PLATE BUREAU OF AMERICAN camp Catalogue cent ceremonial songs ceremony Chased-by-Bears Chippewa songs compass Crow downward dream DRUM not recorded Drum-rhythm similar Eagle Shield Eighth notes Ethn ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 61 feathers final tone following song fourth five-toned scale grass dance GRAY HAWK herb horses Indians kaŋ keynote kiŋ lodge major seconds measure medicine-man MELODIC ANALYSIS-Continued melodic in structure melody metric unit minor in tonality Minor sixth minor third NOTE OF SONG-ITS Number of songs Octave complete painted party pewa pipe progressions renditions were recorded rhythm rhythmic unit sacred stones second five-toned scale semitone Serial singer singing SIOUX MUSIC Sioux songs Sitting Bull sixth Siya'ka śni society Song concerning song were recorded SONG-ITS RELATION Songs containing Standing Rock Reservation Sun dance Sung tempo Teton Sioux tonic tribe unaccented VOICE DRUM Wakaŋ'taŋka waŋ warpath White Buffalo words yelo
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Page 1 - From this day forward all war between the parties to this agreement shall forever cease. The government of the United States desires peace, and its honor is hereby pledged to keep it.
Page 2 - An act to divide a portion of the reservation of the Sioux Nation of Indians in Dakota into separate reservations and to secure the relinquishment of the Indian title to the remainder, and for other purposes.
Page 206 - the Something that moves '. There is a ' Something that moves ' at each of the ' Four Directions or Quarters'. . . . Among the Santee (Sioux) Indians the Four Winds are symbolized by the raven and a small black stone, less than a hen's egg in size. The desire for a dream of this small black stone and the manner of its treatment, as described by this author, are similar to those connected with the sacred stones which form the subject of the present discussion. Distinct from these small stones, which...
Page 184 - ... alone, away from the crowd, to meditate upon many things. In order to secure a fulfillment of his desire a man must qualify himself to make his request. Lack of preparation would mean failure to secure a response to his petition. Therefore when a man makes up his mind to ask a favor of Wakantanka he makes due preparation. It is not fitting that a man should suddenly go out and make a request of Wakantanka.
Page 294 - Buffalo, which went as follows: Of all the animals the horse is the best friend of the Indian, for without it he could not go on long journeys. A horse is the Indian's most valuable piece of property. If an Indian wishes to gain something, he promises his horse that if the horse will help him he will paint it with native dye, that all may see that help has come to him through the aid of his...
Page 241 - In the old days the Indians had few diseases, and so there was not a demand for a large variety of medicines. A medicine man usually treated one special disease and treated it successfully. He did this in accordance with his dream. A medicine man would not try to dream of all herbs and treat all diseases, for then he could not expect to succeed in all nor to fulfill properly the dream of any one herb or animal. He would depend on too many and fail in all. That is one reason why our medicine men lost...
Page 173 - From my boyhood I have observed leaves, trees, and grass, and I have never found two alike. They may have a general likeness, but on examination I have found that they differ slightly. Plants are of different families, each being adapted to growth in a certain locality. It is the same with animals; they are widely scattered, and yet each will be found in the environment to which it is best adapted. It is the same with human beings, there is some place which is best adapted to each. The seeds of the...
Page 207 - When I was ten years of age, I looked at the land and the rivers, the sky above, and the animals around me and could not fail to realize that they were made by some great power. I was so anxious to understand this power that I questioned the trees and the bushes. It seemed as though the flowers were .itaring at me, and I wanted to ask them, "Who made you?
Page 208 - Who made you?" I looked at the moss-covered stones, some of them seemed to have the features of a man, but they could not answer me. Then I had a dream, and in my dream one of these small round stones appeared to me and told me that the maker of all was Wakan Tanka, and that in order to honor him I must honor his works in nature. The stone said that by my search I had shown myself worthy of supernatural help. It said that if I were curing a sick person I might ask its assistance, and that all the...
Page 41 - The series of these upper partial tones is precisely the same for all compound musical tones which correspond to a uniformly periodical motion of the air. It is as follows : — The first upper partial tone is the upper Octave of the prime tone, and makes double the number of vibrations in the same time. If we call the prime c, this upper octave will be c'.