{"id":789,"date":"2013-05-05T01:17:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T05:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=789"},"modified":"2018-08-14T18:15:50","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T22:15:50","slug":"ponemah-chippewa-singers-chippewa-war-dance-for-pow-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=789","title":{"rendered":"Ponemah Chippewa Singers: Chippewa War Dance for Pow&nbsp;Wow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ojib\u00adway com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adties strad\u00addle the bor\u00adder between Cana\u00adda and the U.S.&nbsp;In Min\u00adneso\u00adta, where they are often called \u201cChippe\u00adwa\u201d there has long been a lit\u00adtle gold\u00admine of musi\u00adcal vital\u00adi\u00adty at Ponemah, a small set\u00adtle\u00adment on the long penin\u00adsu\u00adla that sep\u00ada\u00adrates Upper and Low\u00ader Red Lake.&nbsp;It\u2019s an area, unusu\u00adal in the U.S., that close\u00adly resem\u00adbles to wilder, remot\u00ader, more tra\u00addi\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adist&nbsp;Cana\u00addi\u00adan side of the bor\u00adder.&nbsp;This is where some of the ear\u00adli\u00adest record\u00adings of Ojib\u00adway music were made, when Kimi\u00adwun\u2019s puber\u00adty dream\u00adsongs were record\u00aded, a hun\u00addred years ago.&nbsp;Those songs are most\u00adly still alive, though they have evolved in both style and the con\u00adtext in which they are sung.&nbsp;The Ponemah Chippe\u00adwa Singers car\u00adried on the tra\u00addi\u00adtion in the&nbsp;1970s.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I was play\u00ading this old tape when my friend Isaac White walked into my apart\u00adment, and he imme\u00addi\u00adate\u00adly rec\u00adog\u00adnized the style. He had heard anoth\u00ader record\u00ading from the region, and tak\u00aden a lik\u00ading to it, though he\u2019s a born-bred-and-but\u00adtered Toron\u00adton\u00adian who knows noth\u00ading about native music and had nev\u00ader been to a pow wow. I was aston\u00adished that his ear was keen enough to spot it, with\u00adout any prepa\u00adra\u00adtion.&nbsp;It just goes to show how dis\u00adtinc\u00adtive the Min\u00adneso\u00adta \/ North West\u00adern Ontario style is, and how it can speak to an audi\u00adence out\u00adside its back\u00adwoods origins.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ojib\u00adway com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adties strad\u00addle the bor\u00adder between Cana\u00adda and the U.S.&nbsp;In Min\u00adneso\u00adta, where they are often called \u201cChippe\u00adwa\u201d there has long been a lit\u00adtle gold\u00admine of musi\u00adcal vital\u00adi\u00adty at Ponemah, a small set\u00adtle\u00adment on the long penin\u00adsu\u00adla that sep\u00ada\u00adrates Upper&nbsp;and&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=789\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[947,938],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-listening","category-cn-listening-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5719,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions\/5719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}