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- From: beaver.cs.washington.edu!gnosys!anchor.esd.sgi.com!lyn (Lyn Dearborn)
- Subject: Re: Northern Exposure
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 09:10:51 GMT
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- Original-Sender: anchor.esd.sgi.com!lyn (Lyn Dearborn)
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- Marianne Dugan commented on last week's Northern Exposure:
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- >What that part made me wonder was -- was that really Alaska
- >native type music and dancing? It looked and sounded like plains
- >music and dance.
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- I guess only an Alaskan native can answer that, BUT, it looked/sounded
- like PowWow music in general, and probably shouldn't be referred to as
- Plains music/dance. Unfortunately (to a certain extent) the summer PowWow
- circuit tends to sound/look very similar, whether you are on the Plains,
- the Pacific States, Crow Fair, North Dakota, etc. Certainly, this music
- doesn't represent "California Indians", for example, which can be recognized
- anywhere, and is RARELY performed at PowWows, where you would be likely to
- see a group sitting around a large drum, singing. Nor is it anything like
- the dances you would see at Second Mesa, or Zuni Pueblo, but it is/was very
- typical of what you would encounter at a PowWow ANYWHERE across the country.
- The key word here is "PowWow" ... a coming together of many different peoples/
- nations/tribes.
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- Its funny ... I was just asked to teach a class on "Plains Indians" to school
- kids this spring ... I tentatively declined, saying that I know little about
- Plains Indians... my son interceded and said "Mom, who were we dancing with
- all over Montana, Wyoming, etc., this summer?" That's different kid, that was
- PowWow time on the Plains, not the life and culture of Plains Indians ... Huh?
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- Say, What? You see, my son, nothing is as simple as it appears ....
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- lyn
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