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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs by Alice C. Fletcher This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs Author: Alice C. Fletcher Release Date: July 26, 2004 [EBook #13031] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK INDIAN GAMES AND DANCES *** Produced by David Newman and PG Distributed Proofreaders Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs Arranged from American Indian Ceremonials and Sports BY ALICE C. FLETCHER Holder of the Thaw Fellowship, Peabody Museum, Harvard University _Author of The Hako, The Omaha Tribe, Indian Stories and Song, etc._ 1915 Dedicated to THE YOUTH OF AMERICA PREFACE This little book took its rise in the following experience that came to me many years ago when living with the Indians in their homes and pursuing my ethnological studies: One day I suddenly realized with a rude shock that, unlike my Indian friends, I was an alien, a stranger in my native land; its fauna and flora had no fond, familiar place amid my mental imagery, nor did any thoughts of human aspiration or love give to its hills and valleys the charm of personal companionship. I was alone, even in my loneliness. Time went on. The outward aspect of nature remained the same, but imperceptibly a change had been wrought in me until I no longer felt alone in a strange, silent country. I had learned to hear the echoes of a time when every living thing upon this land and even the varied overshadowing skies had its voice, a voice that was attentively heard and devoutly heeded by the ancient people of America. Henceforth, to me the plants, the trees, the clouds and all things had become vocal with human hopes, fears and supplications. When I realized how much closer because of this change I had been drawn to our land, how much greater had become my enjoyment of nature, the desire arose to find some way by which I could help to make audible to others the voice I had heard, and thereby restore to our hills and valleys their lost human element. Impelled by this purpose I have arranged these dances and games with native songs in order
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