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When some American Indian medicine men and women were called upon to heal an ailing tribes member, they would fast in order to receive a song in dream or vision instructing them in how to carry out the treatment of their patient. This is one of the many insights on American Indian healing practices reported by Dr. Frances Densmore. Over the course of 50 years, Dr. Densmore collected more than 2000 recordings of American Indian customs and traditions in song. Compiled in this CD are recordings of medicine men from a diverse representation of tribes singing and chanting those songs, delivered to them in dream by external powers and spirits, that they used to heal the sick.

1. The Approach of the Thunderbirds 2. Going Around the World 3. Sitting with the Turtle 4. A Buffalo Said to Me 5. Song of the Bear 6. Behold the Dawn 7. Second Song When Treating the Sick 8. Third Song When Treating the Sick 9. Healing Song of the Little Green Man 10. Healing Song of the Eagle Spirit 11. Sandy Loam Fields 12. Out of the Mountains 13. Song to a Little Yellow Wasp 14. Song of the Dawn 15. A Path on the Mountain Peaks 16. Song of the Juggler 17. Healing Song from the Spirit Women 18. I Am Rewarding You 19. The Heavens Help You