Spirit of the first people
Subtitle: native American music traditions of Washington State
By: edited by Willie Smyth and Esmé Ryan; introduction by Vi (Taq [superscript w] š [inverted upside-down e] blu) Hilbert.
Contributors: Smyth, Willie.; Ryan, Esmé.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Washington (State) -- Music -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-194) and index.
Table of contents: title: Singers, dancers, dreamers, travelers : native American song traditions, musical instruments, and dance ragalia in Washington State / Roberta Haines; title: Seeds of our ancestors : growing up in the Skokomish song tradition / Bruce-Subiyay Miller; title: The circle of song / Cliff Sijohn; title: Native songs and seasonal food-gathering traditions / Jeanette Timentwa & Rebecca Chamberlain; title: Native songs taught by Ellen W. Saluskin (Hoptonix Sawyalilx̲) / Virginia R. Beavert-Martin; title: Song traditions of the Yakama / Brycene A. Neaman; title: Makah music : preserving the traditions / Linda J. Goodman & Helma Swan; title: Native music of the Pacific Northwest : a Washington State perspective / Loran Olsen; title: Song traditions of the Indian Shaker Church / James Everett Cunningham & Pamela Amoss; title: Songs from the coast, sound, and plateau : native American music traditions in Washington today / Willie Smyth; title: Appendixes: Ten early ethnographers in the Northwest : recordings from Washington State / Laurel Sercombe. Creating and disseminating ethnographic recordings : Washington State materials in Washington, D.C. / Judith A. Gray. Melville Jacobs and early ethnographic recordings in the Northwest / William R. Seaburg.