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Tuesday, November 11, 2003

"Turn-of-the-century ethnomusicologist Frances Densmore once asked an Ojibwa Indian what songs he sang when hunting. Puzzled, he reportedly replied: "We don't sing then. We keep still."

Knowledge among the general populace about Native American culture probably hasn't progressed much since then, and "Native Trails: An Evening of Native American Song and Dance" Friday at the University of Maryland's Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center didn't do much to change that. Instead, it presented a pan-Indian message through weak, inter-tribal ensemble numbers and stronger powwow competition solos based in specific tribal styles."

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Crowded 'Native Trails' (The Washington Post 11/10)

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