An Unseen Cloud: Commercial American Indian Recordings of the late-40s to mid-50s

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1.	uncredited Navajo performers - Yeibichai 02:28	buy track
2.	uncredited Navajo performers - Squaw Dance Song 02:54	buy track
3.	Group of Mescalero Apache Indians - Sun Greeting Ceremony 02:27	buy track
4.	Group of Mescalero Apache Indians - Apache Mountain Spirits Dance 03:24	buy track
5.	Chorus of Taos Indians - Moonlight Song 03:10	buy track
6.	Chorus of Taos Indians - War Dance Song 02:40	buy track
7.	Kiowa Tribal Singers - Comanche Tribal Princess 03:01	buy track
8.	Kiowa Tribal Singers - Flower of the Wigwam 03:15	buy track
9.	George & Eunice Stabler - Omaha Tribal Prayer 01:49
10.	Harvey Lomawaima and his Hopi Dancers - Eagle Dance 02:50
11.	Harvey Lomawaima and his Hopi Dancers - Butterfly Dance 03:00
12.	Joe Lee of Lukachukai - Navajo Round Dance 03:25
13.	As Danced by Red Wing, vocal by Laughing Boy - Navajo Shield Dance 02:29
14.	Big Field Villagers (Papago - Arizona) - Green Rainbow 01:34
15.	Big Field Villagers (Papago - Arizona) - Song of Black Mountain 01:50
16.	Oglala Sioux Singers: W. Horncloud, Ben Sitting Up, Frank Afraid of Horses - Fast Sioux War Dance 02:02
17.	Oglala Sioux Singers: W. Horncloud, Ben Sitting Up, Frank Afraid of Horses - Chief’s Honoring Song 02:47

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As of June 12, 2020 100% of the net proceeds from this collection will be sent on the first of each month to the American Indian College Fund.

Compiled from recordings made ca. 1948-56 and released by independent labels on 78rpm discs. Track credits appear here as they were on the disc labels.

An unrestored variant of most of the same material was issued as a short-run cassette ca. 2012.

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released March 19, 2015

Compilation and sound-restoration by Ian Nagoski.

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