Indian Music and Culture

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             had several different styles, from the pow wow, the Northern
             style, and the Southern. In pow wows they mostly consisted
             of drumming and singing. Usually the dancers would get in a
             big circle and surround the pow wow and do little slow,
             shuffling steps to celebrate a new beginning in life or
             something special that has happened to the tribe. They
             would dress up real fancy and where there head dresses and
             different types of beaded necklaces that they had gotten for
             being a chief or the leader of the dance as they call it.
             In the center of the pow wow they would whistle, that was
             there unique style of showing expression. All of the Native
             nations possessed a elaborate, formal ceremonies based upon
             a greed body of sacred myths. Most of their dances, which
             are dramatized prayers, were disciplined. Every step, every
             gesture, is exactly rehearsed. There is little room for the
             individual star. What counts is the perfect performan
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