Plains Cree Hand Drumming and Round Dance

Plains Cree Hand Drumming and Round Dance -Presented by Ross Paskimen to Battleford Central School (Grades 1-7), May 26 &27, 2014

Before the presentation, we made a KWL chart about First Nations Music, Drumming and Dancing

These are the guiding questions I used for the “What we learned” portion of the chart after the presentation

Drumming Singing Round Dance -Types of patterns – single, -Languages in the songs -Shape and why we hold double beat with scratch *Cree and English hands? *Circle means everyone is -How is drum made? -Different types of songs together, we are sharing our *Learned from someone who *depends on which group was good feelings and love, like know how presented to – Morning song, Mother Earth is round *hunt – tobacco and pray Birthday song, Wedding song, thanks to Mother Earth Wolf song, Buffalo song etc. -How to? *Waste no part of animal *Step together beat in a *Scrape hide & cut right -Describe his voice clockwise direction shape *Stretch hide over wood -How are songs learned? -Boys frame *Listening, remembering, not *Can stomp the first beat and *Use rawhide to make strings from recordings or written be more animated for handle down, oral tradition *Cut tree for stick – tobacco -Girls and pray -How did the songs make you *More elegant, no stomping, feel? like balancing a book on your -If you wanted a drum made *Can be represented through head for you, how should you do words and visually through that? pictures. -Who can go to Round Dances *Gift of tobacco and ask and Pow Wows? *Everyone -Rules about boys’/girls’ drum *Only boys can play on a -What is not allowed? drum for a boy and only girls *Drugs and alcohol can play on a drum for a girl

**How are they all connected?**