Yuman music

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Indigenous music of North America:
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Arapaho Blackfoot
Dene Innu
Iroquois Kiowa
Navajo Ojibwe
Omaha Kwakiutl
Pueblo (Hopi, Zuni) Seminole
Sioux (Lakota, Dakota) Yuman
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Music of the United States - Music of Canada

The Yuman are a tribe of Native Americans from what is now Southern California. Folk songs in Yuma culture are said to be given to a person while dreaming. Many individuals who are in emotional distress go to a secluded area for a few weeks, there to receive new songs (Herzog, pp. 1-6, cited in Nettl, p. 152).

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  • Nettl, Bruno (1965). Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continents. Prentice-Hall, Inc.
    • George Herzog, "Music in the Thinking of the American Indian." Peabody Bulletin, May, 1933

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