The Silence
The federal law passed in 1883 to dismantle indigenous spiritual life.
What is the Code of Indian Offenses?
The 19th-century effort to replace Indigenous identity.
What is Assimilation?
The instrument often called the “heartbeat” of survival.
What is the Powwow Drum?
This intertribal celebration marks survival and unity.
What is a Powwow?
The right to self-govern and control your own destiny.
What is Sovereignty?
Two Spanish Missions built on Salinan Tribe territory.
What are Mission San Miguel Arcángel and Mission San Antonio de Padua
These two Western musical styles were forced on children.
What are Christian Hymns and Western Military Band Music?
These Australian song cycles act as literal maps.
What are Aboriginal Songlines?
The act of bringing a dying language or song back to life.
What is Revitalization?
Returning cultural items or recordings to a community.
What is Repatriation?
Two specific sacred dances banned by the 1883 Code.
What are the Sun Dance and Ghost Dance?
The method used in boarding schools to erase identity.
What is the silence of music and language?
Information found in songs besides maps (name one).
What are water sources, plant medicines, animal migration, or territory boundaries?
This group blends original indigenous music elements with electronic music.
Who are A Tribe Called Red?
A community’s rules about who can use a song and how.
What are Protocols?
Songs practiced in secret during the ban show this concept.
What is Cultural Resilience?
A small way children resisted in boarding school dorms.
What is humming, sharing stories, or passing on song pieces?
What happens to songs when a tribe is removed from its land.
What is loss of connection or threat to the song's meaning?
Modern way to save a fragile oral tradition from loss.
What are Digital Archives
This organization stores recordings as an act of survival.
What is the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings?
This suggests recovery, while "resistance" is opposition.
What is Resilience?
The specific purpose of military band music in schools.
What is to assimilate to Euro-American Culture?
This term describes soundscapes that teach history.
What is Acoustic History?
The meaning of "Intertribal" in a musical context.
What is a shared celebration across many different Indigenous nations?
The field that studies music in its cultural context.
What is Ethnomusicology?