DESCRIPTION:
Track 7 'Grass Dance Song' from the 2001 CD Powwow Songs Music of The Plains Indians released on the UK ARC music label. The field recordings made in August 1975 at the Kihekah Steh Powwow, Skiatook, Oklahoma, capture the atmosphere of this inter-tribal gathering with drumming, singing and dancing. Represented are the Pawnee, Ponca, Sac and Fox, Quapaw, Osage and Kiowa from the Southern Plains and the Sioux, Hidatsa and Arapaho from the Northern Plains. Extensive information about the dances and songs were written by Charlotte Heth, a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and an Associate Professor of Music and Director of the American Indian Studies Centre at UCLA.