FOREWORD 



Chippewa music in its relation to tribal life constitutes one of the- 

 subjects dealt with in the present volume, as well as in the writer's 

 first contribution to this study. ^ Not less important is the melodic 

 and rhythmic analysis of the songs, which was begun in the first work 

 and is developed more extensively in the following pages. The 

 native religion of the Chippewa also was considered in Bulletin 

 45. War forms the keynote of the present memoir, together with the 

 Drum-presentation Ceremony, which is said to have united the Chip- 

 pewa and the Sioux in permanent peace. In both volumes there are 

 songs of tribal games and dances, and songs "composed in dreams," 

 many of which are the individual songs of forgotten warriors. 



The analysis of the Chippewa words and part of the translation 

 are the work of Rev. C. H. Beaulieu, a member of the tribe, and of 

 Rev. J. A. Gilfillan, who for twenty-five years lived on the White 

 Earth Reservation, in Mmnesota. Grateful acknowledgment is 

 made also to Mrs. Mary Warren English, of White Earth, and to other 

 native interpreters, whose interest and cooperation have contributed 

 materially to the success of the work. 



' Chippewa Music, Bulletin 45, Bur. Amer. Ethn. 



