Turkey Tailfeather Woman
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Turkey Tailfeather Woman was a Dakota woman who is said to have given the Drum Dance to the Anishinaabe people. The Drum Dance is a set of spiritual beliefs that center around Turkey Tailfeather woman and her escape from the American military, after which she built a large drum while in hiding. The religion spread throughout a large swathe of North America after about 1877. The drum used in the Drum Dance is the forerunner of the large drum used in modern powwows.
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- Romero, Brenda M.. "Great Lakes", The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, 451-460.
- Densmore, Frances (1913). "Chippewa Music". Bureau of American Ethnology 2 (53). Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution.
- Stan Louttit and Elaine Keillor. Dancing of the Anishinaabe: Our Dance Stories. Native Dance. Retrieved on May 8, 2008.
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