Identifier: n1314elpalacio10archuoft (find matches)
Title: El Palacio
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Archaeological Society of New Mexico Museum of New Mexico School of American Research (Santa Fe, N.M.)
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Publisher: Santa Fe, N.M
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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-ings of lovers but this does not appear tohave been customary among the oíd In-dians. In one tribe after another I haveasked the oíd people whether love songswere sung when they were young, andsometimes they are slightly oífended.They tell me that the kind of love songthat talks so much, did not come intouse until the oíd, strict customs begcín tobe broken down. Of course, I cannotspeak about tribes that I have not studied.bul I will tell you what has been told mein these tribes. The Chippewa told methat love songs were modem. I recordedseveral Chippewa love songs and theywere especially sweet and plaintive melo-dies, but they were said to be modem.In the oíd days the marriages were ar-ranged by the parents of the young peo-ple. This is expressed in a song whichwas recorded by the daughter of a chiefin northem Wisconsin, who leamed itfrom her mother. The words are: I am asking for Bugacs daughter,My big brass kettle he is giving.A brass kettle was among the first and EL PALACIO
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THE TRAPPER By Alien True(Denvers Civic Cenler) inost highly pnzed articles that the Chip-pewas received from the Irader, and thiswas undoubtedly a great inducement.I he Sioux told me that m oíd times theonly hnd oí Jove songs were about themalter oí whether a young man was richcnough to marry. The followmg can scarcely be called a love song m the pop-ular sense of the term, but it was said tobe very oíd. The words are: You may go on the war path,When 1 hear your ñame announced among the victors,Then I will marry you. EL PALACIO It was said that a young Sioux went towar believing that the girl he hoped tomarry was untrue to him. The reportwas íalse, but he went with the warriors.Beío e a fight he said he hoped he wouldbe killed and sang a song with these words: When you reach home, tell her. Long before then I will have finished. You see that this song expresses affec-lion, but is not a love song m the whitepeoples use of the term. A chief of thePawnee said that courting songs

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