Mardi Gras
Mardi Gras means this in French.
What is Fat Tuesday?
This is what the drum symbolizes during a drum circle in Native American culture.
What is the heartbeat?
A surrogate instrument has done this to a pre-existing instrument.
What is replaced?
The Mardi Gras Indians are a group of African American citizens who pay homage to this culture.
What is Native Americans?
On the Catholic Christian calendar, this is the day that immediately follows Mardi Gras.
What is Ash Wednesday?
What is a powwow?
The brake drum makes a loud clanking sound, because it is made out of this material.
What is metal?
This is where runaway slaves encountered the Indigenous (Native Americans).
What are swamps?
This is the American city most closely associated with Mardi Gras.
What is New Orleans, Louisiana?
Every individual jingle of a Native American jingle dress represents this.
What is a thought or a prayer?
If you don't have a drum, you could use one of these. It's made of plastic, and it can hold 5 gallons of water.
What is a bucket?
This is how long most Mardi Gras Indians spend working on their suits.
What is all year long?
It became customary for people to do this on the day before Lent.
What is 'throw a party'?
This was the year in America that Native Americans were finally given the full right to freely practice their traditional religions.
What is 1978?
The steel pan is a surrogate of the tamboo bamboo which is a surrogate of this instrument which originated in West Africa.
What is the djembe?
This song was written by Sugar Boy Crawford in the 1950's and has been remade by artists such as The Grateful Dead and Sia. This song was inspired by the Mardi Gras Indians, and its lyrics contain chants that Crawford heard while observing them in New Orleans.
What is Iko Iko?
These three colors are most closely associated with Mardi Gras.
(Name two for credit.)
What are green, purple, and gold?
Nowadays, this is who is welcome to participate in a Native American powwow.
Who is everyone/anyone?
No drum around? No problem, make beats by using this technique. Afterall, this is what was surely done before the invention of the drum.
What is body percussion?
This term is used to describe the act of participating in the Mardi Gras Indian activity.
What is masking?