Songs passed down to Mrs Charles by an ancestor grandfather he sang before white men arrived, at the time of the Eskimo War. He thought he would not return. He swam across a wide river and made it home, then wrote this song.
Collected over the course of 50 years by Dr. Frances Densmore for the Bureau of American Ethnology at the Smithsonian. According to the descirption, These are songs of medicine men and women brought to them in dreams by external powers and spirits.
Collected over the course of 50 years by Dr. Frances Densmore for the Bureau of American Ethnology at the Smithsonian. According to the descirption , These are songs of medicine men and women brought to them in dreams by external powers and spirits.
Music that is part of a ritual of indigenous people to remove the most honored of their dead relatives from their tombs to "re-wrap" them every 7 years.
His paternal great-great- grandmother Zenora was a full-blooded Cherokee from Georgia who married an Irishman named Moore. This is the final studio album released before his death on Sept 18, 1970.
