Turkey Tailfeather Woman
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Tailfeather Woman was a Dakota woman who is said to have given the Drum Dance to the Anishinaabe people. The Drum Dance is a set of spiritual beliefs that center on Tailfeather Woman and her escape from the American military, after which she built a large drum while in hiding. The religion spread throughout a large swathe of North America after about 1877. The drum used in the Drum Dance is the forerunner of the large drum used in modern powwows.
References
- Romero, Brenda M. "Great Lakes". The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. pp. 451–460.
- Densmore, Frances (1913). "Chippewa Music". Bureau of American Ethnology. 2 (53). Cited by Romero. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution.
- Stan Louttit and Elaine Keillor. "Dancing of the Anishinaabe: Our Dance Stories". Native Dance. Archived from the original on June 5, 2009. Retrieved May 8, 2008.
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