Turkey Tailfeather Woman

Turkey Tailfeather Woman was a Dakota woman who is said to have given the Drum Dance to the Anishinaabe people. The Drum Dance is a set of spiritual beliefs that center on Turkey Tailfeather Woman and her escape from the American military, after which she built a large drum while in hiding. The religion spread throughout a large swathe of North America after about 1877. The drum used in the Drum Dance is the forerunner of the large drum used in modern powwows.

References

Romero, Brenda M. "Great Lakes". The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. pp. 451–460.
Densmore, Frances (1913). Cited by Romero. "Chippewa Music". Bureau of American Ethnology (Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution) 2 (53).
Stan Louttit and Elaine Keillor. "Dancing of the Anishinaabe: Our Dance Stories". Native Dance. Retrieved May 8, 2008.

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