Sentence:  The other is their <WSD>canticoes</WSD> as they call them which is performed by round dances, sometimes words, then songs, then shouts being in the middle that begin and direct the chorus this they perform with equal fervency but great appearance of joy. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A sacred ceremony of the Algonquin tribe that involved dancing in a circle, at which colonists were not welcome.