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Title: Song sung by a grandmother to a baby grandchild
Identifier(s): audio:6537; APSdigrec_3219; Recording Number: 13A; Program Number: 01
Description: Song followed by discussion of the song and reminiscences about grandparents.
Source: Norcross, Amoena. Shawnee language recordings, 1994. (Mss.Rec.236);
Subject: Shawnee Indians--Music; Grandmothers
Date: 1994

Title: Shawnee peyote song and discussion of music in peyote meeting
Identifier(s): audio:6544; APSdigrec_3220; Recording Number: 13A; Program Number: 02
Source: Norcross, Amoena. Shawnee language recordings, 1994. (Mss.Rec.236);
Subject: Shawnee Indians--Music; Shawnee Indians--Religion; Peyotism
Date: 1994

Title: Witapanoxwe's Song
Identifier(s): audio:4151; APSdigrec_2808; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 10
Description: Vision recital song, or atehomwin song, of James C. Webber, whose Delaware name is Witapano'xwe.; Song may be of Seneca or Shawnee origin. Contains some Munsee terms. This recording has been identified as culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: Speck, Frank G. Delaware Indian material, 1928. (Mss.Rec.4);
Subject: Delaware Indians--Music; Seneca Indians--Music; Shawnee Indians--Music
Date: 1928

Title: Pleasure Dance #1
Identifier(s): APSdigrec_0417; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 01
Description: Women's stomp dance. May be a women's side dance in which women dance while men sing. Possibly a Shawnee song sung in Delaware.; Playback speed uneven due to condition of the original cylinder.
Subject: Delaware Indians--Music; Delaware dance; Stomp dance; Shawnee Indians--Music
Date: 1928

Title: Woman's Dance Song, ywietani-ke, "dancing nicely"
Identifier(s): APSdigrec_2807; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 09
Description: Women's stomp dance song. Words possibly in Seneca. Song may be of Shawnee origin.
Subject: Delaware Indians--Music; Delaware dance; Stomp dance; Shawnee Indians--Music
Date: 1928

Title: Delaware Dance Songs (not used in Big House): c: Women's Dance
Identifier(s): APSdigrec_2816; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 05
Description: Identified by Goddard (see Related Resource) as a Raccoon Dance, possibly Shawnee in origin.
Subject: Delaware Indians--Music; Delaware dance; Stomp dance; Shawnee Indians--Music
Date: 1928

Title: Quapaw Pow-Wow: Stomp Dance Contest [Side A]
Identifier(s): audio:6353; APSdigrec_0237; Recording Number: 22; Program Number: 01
Description: Lead Dance (leader unidentified) -- Lead Dance (leader unidentified) -- Lead Dance (leader unidentified) -- Lead Dance (leader unidentified) -- Lead Dance (leader unidentified) -- Lead Dance, background announcements and conversation -- Lead Dance (leader unidentified) -- Wayne Longhorn (Shawnee), leader -- Steve Kinder (Peoria), leader -- Vernon Adkins (Otoe), leader; Recorded at Beaver Springs ('Devil's Promenade') ground, near Quapaw, Oklahoma, July 5, 1974, by Kenny Kinder (Peoria). Leaders and shell-shakers as identified. Almost all participants are Quapaws and others of the 'Eight Tribes' of Ottawa County, and Shawnees and the Whiteoak and Little Axe Grounds.
Source: Roark-Calnek, Sue N. Indian performances in Oklahoma, 1973-1974. (Mss.Rec.107);
Subject: Powwows--Oklahoma; Quapaw dance; Dance--Competitions; Shawnee dance; Shawnee Indians--Music; Stomp dance
Date: 1974-07-05

Title: Wedding Dance [Side A]
Identifier(s): audio:5737; local: APSdigrec_0202; local: 03; local: 01
Description: Gourd Dance -- Announcements: contributions, forthcoming performances -- Series of Five Gourd Dances -- Giveaway in Honor of Head Man Dancers --Series of Seven Gourd Dances; Hosts: Mr. and Ms. Eugene Brown (Ponca) in honor of their daughter's marriage. Head Staff: Adam Pratt (Pawnee), Head Singer; Inter-Tribal Gourd (Dance) Clan of Shawnee, Head Man Dancers; Jeanette Red Bird (Arapaho) Head Lady Dancer.; This recording has been designated as potentially culturally sensitive or private. Reproduction and remote access is restricted. Please consult the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Subject: Arapaho dance; Pawnee dance; Pawnee Indians--Music; Arapaho Indians--Music; Shawnee Indians--Music; Shawnee dance; Weddings; Powwows--Oklahoma
Date: 1973-12-08

Title: Seneca-Cayuga Green Corn: Ceremonial and Stomp Dance (tape 2) [Side B]
Identifier(s): audio:6428; local: APSdigrec_0260; local: 34; local: 02
Description: Woman Dance Series, singers led by Bill Shawnee -- Garfish Dance (Creek), antiphony led by Dutch White; Recorded at Seneca-Cayuga Ceremonial Ground, Cowskin River, Ottawa County, Oklahoma, August 13, 1974. Hosts: Seneca-Cayuga Ceremonial Organization (Bob White, Chief and Speaker). Principal Singers: Bob White (Seneca-Cayuga); Dutch White (Seneca-Cayuga); Frank Thomas (Eastern Iriquois, tribe uncertain); Bill Shawnee (Shawnee/Delaware). Other Singers and Dancers: members of the host ground, other "Eight Tribes" of Ottawa County, Shawnees from White Oak Ground, visiting Eastern Seneca and Cayuga from Grand River and New York State Reservations. Instruments: water drum, claves, horn and gourd rattles, (ceremonial) snapping turtle rattle, (Lead Dance) can or turtle shell, leg shackles.; This recording has been designated as potentially culturally sensitive or private. Reproduction and remote access is restricted. Please consult the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Subject: Powwows--Oklahoma; Seneca dance; Seneca Indians--Music; Cayuga Indians--Music; Cayuga dance; Shawnee Indians--Music; Shawnee dance; Stomp dance
Date: 1974-08-13

Title: Delaware Pow-Wow: Evening War Dance [2 of 2] [Side B]
Identifier(s): audio:5754; APSdigrec_0209; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 02
Description: War Dance (continued) -- Giveaway in Honor of Billy Dean Burns (Delaware) (prison rehabilitation worker) -- Drawings for Raffle Prizes -- Series of War Dances -- Announcement of Stomp Dance Contest Registration -- Blanket Dance (benefit for family of Joe Mahoujie (Osage/Kaw), (deceased), (AIM song led by Head Singer); Recorded at Delaware Pow-Wow Ground. Hosts: Delaware Pow-Wow Committee (Numerous Falleaf, Chairman). Head Staff: Troy Little Axe (Shawnee), Head Singer; other Singers are Shawnees, Delawares, Sac and Fox; Sonny Glass (Cherokee/Seneca-Cayuga/Quapaw), Head Man Dancer; Charla Dawes (Ottawa/Sioux), Head Lady Dancer; Dee Ann Ketchum (Delaware), Princess; Charles Dawes (Ottawa/Sioux), M.C.
Source: Roark-Calnek, Sue N. Indian performances in Oklahoma, 1973-1974. (Mss.Rec.107);
Subject: Shawnee Indians--Music; Shawnee dance; Delaware dance; Fox dance; Cherokee dance; Seneca dance; Quapaw dance; Ottawa dance; Powwows--Oklahoma
Date: 1974-05-31

Title: Seneca-Cayuga Green Corn: Ceremonial and Stomp Dance (tape 1) [Side A]
Identifier(s): audio:6426; local: APSdigrec_0253; local: 31; local: 01
Description: Ceremonial Woman Dances. Led by Ruby Diebold (women face male singers and sing with them, then file counter-clockwise around long house) -- Bean Dance (beginning) singers led by Bill Shawnee with horn rattle alternating concentric circles of men and women, counter-clockwise step; Recorded at Seneca-Cayuga Ceremonial Ground, Cowskin River, Ottawa County, Oklahoma, August 12, 1974. Hosts: Seneca-Cayuga Ceremonial Organization (Bob White, Chief and Speaker). Principal Singers: Bob White (Seneca-Cayuga); Dutch White (Seneca-Cayuga); Frank Thomas (Eastern Iriquois, tribe uncertain); Bill Shawnee (Shawnee/Delaware). Other Singers and Dancers: members of the host ground, other "Eight Tribes" of Ottawa County, Shawnees from White Oak Ground, visiting Eastern Seneca and Cayuga from Grand River and New York State Reservations. Instruments: water drum, claves, horn and gourd rattles, (ceremonial) snapping turtle rattle, (Lead Dance) can or turtle shell, leg shackles.; This recording has been designated as potentially culturally sensitive or private. Reproduction and remote access is restricted. Please consult the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Subject: Powwows--Oklahoma; Seneca dance; Seneca Indians--Music; Cayuga Indians--Music; Cayuga dance; Shawnee Indians--Music; Shawnee dance; Stomp dance
Date: 1974-08-12

Title: Wedding Dance [Side B]
Identifier(s): audio:5739; local: APSdigrec_0203; local: 03; local: 02
Description: Giveaway in Honor of Head Singer --Announcements of Forthcoming Events --Giveaway in Honor of Newly Wed Couple -- Series of Four Gourd Dances; Hosts: Mr. and Ms. Eugene Brown (Ponca) in honor of their daughter's marriage. Head Staff: Adam Pratt (Pawnee), Head Singer; Inter-Tribal Gourd (Dance) Clan of Shawnee, Head Man Dancers; Jeanette Red Bird (Arapaho) Head Lady Dancer.; This recording has been designated as potentially culturally sensitive or private. Reproduction and remote access is restricted. Please consult the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Subject: Arapaho dance; Pawnee dance; Pawnee Indians--Music; Arapaho Indians--Music; Shawnee Indians--Music; Shawnee dance; Weddings; Powwows--Oklahoma
Date: 1973-12-08

Title: Delaware Pow-Wow: Afternoon War Dance [Side B]
Identifier(s): audio:5753; APSdigrec_0207; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 02
Description: Announcements of Forthcoming Performances -- Giveaway in Honor of Head Singer -- Series of War Dances (tape interrupted) -- Remarks by M.C. -- War Dance for Straight Dancers; Recorded at Delaware Pow-Wow Ground. Hosts: Delaware Pow-Wow Committee (Numerous Falleaf, Chairman). Head Staff: Troy Little Axe (Shawnee), Head Singer; other Singers are Shawnees, Delawares, Sac and Fox; Sonny Glass (Cherokee/Seneca-Cayuga/Quapaw), Head Man Dancer; Charla Dawes (Ottawa/Sioux), Head Lady Dancer; Dee Ann Ketchum (Delaware), Princess; Charles Dawes (Ottawa/Sioux), M.C.
Source: Roark-Calnek, Sue N. Indian performances in Oklahoma, 1973-1974. (Mss.Rec.107);
Subject: Shawnee Indians--Music; Shawnee dance; Delaware dance; Fox dance; Cherokee dance; Seneca dance; Quapaw dance; Ottawa dance; Powwows--Oklahoma
Date: 1974-06-01

Title: Delaware Pow-Wow: Evening War Dance [1 of 2] [Side A]
Identifier(s): audio:16986; APSdigrec_0204; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 01
Description: Preliminary Remarks, Introduction of Head Staff by M.C. -- Round Dances (Women) -- Announcements and Remarks -- Series of War Dances; Recorded at Delaware Pow-Wow Ground. Hosts: Delaware Pow-Wow Committee (Numerous Falleaf, Chairman). Head Staff: Troy Little Axe (Shawnee), Head Singer; other Singers are Shawnees, Delawares, Sac and Fox; Sonny Glass (Cherokee/Seneca-Cayuga/Quapaw), Head Man Dancer; Charla Dawes (Ottawa/Sioux), Head Lady Dancer; Dee Ann Ketchum (Delaware), Princess; Charles Dawes (Ottawa/Sioux), M.C.
Source: Roark-Calnek, Sue N. Indian performances in Oklahoma, 1973-1974. (Mss.Rec.107); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.107-ead.xml
Subject: Shawnee Indians--Music; Shawnee dance; Delaware dance; Fox dance; Cherokee dance; Seneca dance; Quapaw dance; Ottawa dance; Round dancing
Date: 1974-05-31

Title: Seneca-Cayuga Green Corn: Ceremonial and Stomp Dance (tape 2) [Side B]
Identifier(s): audio:6374; local: APSdigrec_0256; local: 32; local: 02
Description: Coon Dance (couples) -- Lead Dance, leader unidentified -- Lead Dance, leader unidentified -- ?Gourd Dance, led by Frank Thomas and son with gourd rattles -- Stirrup Dance, singers led by Bill Shawnee -- Cherokee Dance, singers led by Bill Shawnee; Recorded at Seneca-Cayuga Ceremonial Ground, Cowskin River, Ottawa County, Oklahoma, August 12, 1974. Hosts: Seneca-Cayuga Ceremonial Organization (Bob White, Chief and Speaker). Principal Singers: Bob White (Seneca-Cayuga); Dutch White (Seneca-Cayuga); Frank Thomas (Eastern Iriquois, tribe uncertain); Bill Shawnee (Shawnee/Delaware). Other Singers and Dancers: members of the host ground, other "Eight Tribes" of Ottawa County, Shawnees from White Oak Ground, visiting Eastern Seneca and Cayuga from Grand River and New York State Reservations. Instruments: water drum, claves, horn and gourd rattles, (ceremonial) snapping turtle rattle, (Lead Dance) can or turtle shell, leg shackles.; This recording has been designated as potentially culturally sensitive or private. Reproduction and remote access is restricted. Please consult the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Subject: Powwows--Oklahoma; Seneca dance; Seneca Indians--Music; Cayuga Indians--Music; Cayuga dance; Shawnee Indians--Music; Shawnee dance; Stomp dance
Date: 1974-08-12

Title: Seneca-Cayuga Green Corn: Ceremonial and Stomp Dance (tape 2) [Side A]
Identifier(s): audio:6423; local: APSdigrec_0255; local: 32; local: 01
Description: Lead Dance, leader unidentified -- Lead Dance, leader unidentified -- Oklahoma Woman Dance, women initially face male singers and sing -- Lead Dance, leader unidentified; Recorded at: Seneca-Cayuga Ceremonial Ground, Cowskin River, Ottawa County, Oklahoma, August 12, 1974. Hosts: Seneca-Cayuga Ceremonial Organization (Bob White, Chief and Speaker). Principal Singers: Bob White (Seneca-Cayuga); Dutch White (Seneca-Cayuga); Frank Thomas (Eastern Iriquois, tribe uncertain); Bill Shawnee (Shawnee/Delaware). Other Singers and Dancers: members of the host ground, other "Eight Tribes" of Ottawa County, Shawnees from White Oak Ground, visiting Eastern Seneca and Cayuga from Grand River and New York State Reservations. Instruments: water drum, claves, horn and gourd rattles, (ceremonial) snapping turtle rattle, (Lead Dance) can or turtle shell, leg shackles.; This recording has been designated as potentially culturally sensitive or private. Reproduction and remote access is restricted. Please consult the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Subject: Powwows--Oklahoma; Seneca dance; Seneca Indians--Music; Cayuga Indians--Music; Cayuga dance; Shawnee Indians--Music; Shawnee dance; Stomp dance
Date: 1974-08-12

Title: Delaware Pow-Wow: Evening War Dance [2 of 2] [Side A]
Identifier(s): audio:5752; APSdigrec_0208; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 01
Description: Blanket Dance (benefit for host organization) -- Announcements by M.C. -- Snake Dance -- Buffalo Dance -- Announcements -- Series of War Dances; Recorded at Delaware Pow-Wow Ground. Hosts: Delaware Pow-Wow Committee (Numerous Falleaf, Chairman). Head Staff: Troy Little Axe (Shawnee), Head Singer (Other Singers are Shawnees, Delawares, Sac and Fox); Sonny Glass (Cherokee/Seneca-Cayuga/Quapaw), Head Man Dancer; Charla Dawes (Ottawa/Sioux), Head Lady Dancer; Dee Ann Ketchum (Delaware), Princess; Charles Dawes (Ottawa/Sioux), M.C.
Source: Roark-Calnek, Sue N. Indian performances in Oklahoma, 1973-1974. (Mss.Rec.107);
Subject: Shawnee Indians--Music; Shawnee dance; Delaware dance; Fox dance; Cherokee dance; Seneca dance; Quapaw dance; Ottawa dance; Powwows--Oklahoma
Date: 1974-05-31

Title: Delaware Pow-Wow: Afternoon War Dance [Side A]
Identifier(s): audio:5744; APSdigrec_0206; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 01
Description: Giveaway in Honor of Head Lady Dancer (Dawes Family Song led by Chris White (Shawnee/Delaware) -- Series of War Dances -- Remarks by M.C.; Recorded at Delaware Pow-Wow Ground. Hosts: Delaware Pow-Wow Committee (Numerous Falleaf, Chairman). Head Staff: Troy Little Axe (Shawnee), Head Singer; Other Singers are Shawnees, Delawares, Sac and Fox; Sonny Glass (Cherokee/Seneca-Cayuga/Quapaw), Head Man Dancer; Charla Dawes (Ottawa/Sioux), Head Lady Dancer; Dee Ann Ketchum (Delaware), Princess; Charles Dawes (Ottawa/Sioux), M.C.
Source: Roark-Calnek, Sue N. Indian performances in Oklahoma, 1973-1974. (Mss.Rec.107);
Subject: Shawnee Indians--Music; Shawnee dance; Delaware dance; Fox dance; Cherokee dance; Seneca dance; Quapaw dance; Ottawa dance; Powwows--Oklahoma
Date: 1974-06-01

Title: Quapaw Pow-Wow: Stomp Dance Contest [Side B]
Identifier(s): audio:6354; APSdigrec_0238; Recording Number: 22; Program Number: 02
Description: Billy Charles Blalock (Shawnee), leader -- Kenny Kinder (Peoria), leader -- Lead Dance (leader unidentified) -- George Vailer (Shawnee), leader -- Bruce LongHorn (Shawnee), leader -- Bill Dick (Shawnee), leader -- 'Warm Up' lead for Shell-shakers (leader unidentified) -- Beverly Dick (Shawnee), Shell-shaker -- Elsie Gibson (Shawnee), Shell-shaker -- Patsy McClellan (Sac and Fox/Seminole/ Seneca-Cayuga), Shell-shaker -- Jean Runnels (Delaware/Iowa/Otoe), Shell Shaker; Recorded at: Beaver Springs ('Devil's Promenade') ground, near Quapaw, Oklahoma, July 5, 1974, by Kenny Kinder (Peoria). Leaders and shell-shakers as identified. Almost all participants are Quapaws and others of the 'Eight Tribes' of Ottawa County, and Shawnees and the Whiteoak and Little Axe Grounds.
Source: Roark-Calnek, Sue N. Indian performances in Oklahoma, 1973-1974. (Mss.Rec.107);
Subject: Powwows--Oklahoma; Quapaw dance; Dance--Competitions; Shawnee dance; Shawnee Indians--Music; Stomp dance; Fox dance; Delaware dance
Date: 1974-07-05

Title: Seneca-Cayuga Green Corn: Ceremonial and Stomp Dance (tape 2) [Side A]
Identifier(s): audio:6429; local: APSdigrec_0259; local: 34; local: 01
Description: Stirrup Dance, singers led by Bill Shawnee -- Lead Dance, leader unidentified -- Coon Dance, singers led by Bill Shawnee -- Lead Dance, singers led by Bill Shawnee -- Background Conversation -- Lead Dance, leader unidentified -- Lead Dance, leader unidentified; Recorded at: Seneca-Cayuga Ceremonial Ground, Cowskin River, Ottawa County, Oklahoma, August 13, 1974. Hosts: Seneca-Cayuga Ceremonial Organization (Bob White, Chief and Speaker). Principal Singers: Bob White (Seneca-Cayuga); Dutch White (Seneca-Cayuga); Frank Thomas (Eastern Iriquois, tribe uncertain); Bill Shawnee (Shawnee/Delaware). Other Singers and Dancers: members of the host ground, other "Eight Tribes" of Ottawa County, Shawnees from White Oak Ground, visiting Eastern Seneca and Cayuga from Grand River and New York State Reservations. Instruments: water drum, claves, horn and gourd rattles, (ceremonial) snapping turtle rattle, (Lead Dance) can or turtle shell, leg shackles.; This recording has been designated as potentially culturally sensitive or private. Reproduction and remote access is restricted. Please consult the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Subject: Powwows--Oklahoma; Seneca dance; Seneca Indians--Music; Cayuga Indians--Music; Cayuga dance; Shawnee Indians--Music; Shawnee dance; Stomp dance
Date: 1974-08-13