Music Of Algonkiansi / Various Music Of Algonkiansi / Various CD

For the Cree, Montagnais, and Naskapi hunters whose songs are represented on this album, success in hunting was crucial because for a time it provided the only means of subsistence. Hunters treated their hunting trips with great devotion and seriousness. Before heading off to hunt, the men would sing songs that had originated in or described dreams they had of the location of game and of their success; all songs, having materialized in dream, were personal and no hunter sang another's song. Presented here is a collection of personal hunting songs recorded on an Indian settlement in Scheffervilee, P.Q., Canada in 1964.

1. Hunting Song 2. Bear Hunting Song 3. Explanatory Monologue 4. Two Hunting Songs 5. Two Hunting Songs 6. Hunting Season Is Almost Here / I Saw a Woman / the Wind Is My Father (Medley) 7. Hunting Song 8. Hunting Song 9. I Hunt with My Sons 10. I'm Happy When I Catch a Caribou 11. The People Are Coming to Dinner 12. Father Said That I Must Sing 13. I Sing Until I Catch Something 14. I Shot a Caribou 15. I Shot a Caribou 16. In the Winter I Hunt All the Time 17. I Went on a River with My Canoe 18. We Will Go to the Bush, You and I 19. I See Where to Go Hunting in My Dreams