WORLD MUSIC WITH MS.

CASEY

NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC

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APACHE CHIEF
GERONIMO

REVIEW: WHO ARE NATIVE

AMERICANS?
Indigenous (original) people to inhabit (live in) North
America
Migrated over 11,000 years ago
Lived in peace until 15 t h century when Europeans fi rst
arrived
Europeans brought horses that carried disease that
Native Americans were not immune to
Thousands died, Europeans began settling
Love tradition music, art, ceremonies

NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC

*BRAINSTORM*
Purposes
Ceremonial
Recreation
Expression
Healing

Instruments
Drums
Flutes
Other
percussion
Voice

INSTRUMENTS: IN ORDER OF
DISCOVERY

1. Drums wood and

animal hide, detailed
2. Rattles of various
materials
3. Bone Whistles, then more
holes were added and
various materials were
used to create the Flute

THE APACHE CHIEF GERONIMO

Real name Goyath lay (one w ho yawns)
Born 18 29
Leade r of the Apache tribe
18 51 - Family killed b y M exic an sold ie rs, he s ee ks
reveng e
Req uire d to live on res e rvations by Eu rope an
settle rs, b ut alw ays fl e d/ re be lle d.
He surren de re d in 1 88 6 tribe was reloc ate d
and imprisone d

Believed to have magical powers

Wisdom & Healing
Medicine Man

Seeing the future

Courage
Spiritual

GERONIMOS SONG (MEDICINE

SONG)
"The song that I will sing is an old song, so old that none
knows who made it. It has been handed down through
generations and was taught to me when I was but a little lad.
It is now my own song. It belongs to me. This is a holy song
(medicine-song), and great is its power. The song tells how,
as I sing, I go through the air to a holy place where Yusun
(The Supreme Being) will give me power to do wonderful
things. I am surrounded by little clouds, and as I go through
the air I change, becoming spirit only. Geronimo

QUESTION: WHAT IS YOUR

INTERPRETATION?

LYRICS
Original:

Translation:

O, ha leO, ha le!
O, ha leO, ha le!Through the air
AwbizhayeShichl
I fl y upon the airTowards the
hadahiyago niniyaO, ha lesky, far, far, far,O, ha leO, ha
O, ha leTsago degi naleyale!There to fi nd the holy place,
Ah--yu whi ye!O, ha leO, Ah, now the change comes o're
ha le!
me!O, ha leO, ha le!

GERONIMOS SONG (MEDICINE

SONG)