DENSMORE] CHIPPEWA MUSIC II 83 



WORDS 



(First rendition) 



Ca^gobens at Ca^obens 



odo'denan'' village 



maViwilg^ (<hey) are weeping 



inJCniwug'' the men 



(Second rendition) 



Ca^gobens at Ca'gobens 



odoMenan'' village 



ma^wiwug^ (they) are wailing 



ikwe''w(ig the women 



Analysis. — This melody is characterized by opening measures 

 minor in tonality and by the tonic appearing in the first measure. 

 (See analysis of No. 9.) The first five measures have a rhythm 

 which is complete in itself and is not repeated; the last six measures 

 also have a rhythm of their own and may be said to constitute an 

 answering phrase. Between these sections is the part of the song 

 containing the words. This is not strongly accented, though the note- 

 values are the same in all tlie renditions. The transcription contains 

 the first half of the words, the remainder being given with a second 

 rendition of the song. 



Eight months after this song was recorded on the phonograph it 

 was sung again by the same smger and the renditions were found to 

 be identical, even the slight deviations from exact time being repeated. 



Personal Reminiscences of Three Warriors 



THE child's dream OF WAR 



(By Meja^kigi^jig ) 



Meja'kigi'jig ^ (pi. 13), chief of the Wliite Earth Chippewa, fur- 

 nished, in June, 1911, the following narrative of his childish dreams 

 and their fulfillment. He stated at that time that he was the sole 

 survivor of the representatives of the tribe who selected White Earth 

 for the abode of the Chippewa under the terms of the treaty of 1867. 

 He stated also that he was in several war parties led by Odjib'we, 

 that he took part in ten campaigns against the Sioux, and was in 

 four fights. The aged chief is honored and respected by all who 

 know him, a man of wise counsels and kindly heart. 



Speaking through his favorite interpreter, Mr. John W. Carl (see 

 pp. 130, 303),Meja'kigi'j3Lg said that when he was a little boy his father 

 was killed by the Sioux. He well remembered trying every night to 

 dream of something which should enable him, a boy of 7 years, to 



1 Rev. J. A. GilfiUan is authority for the statement that when he went to the reservation as a young 

 man the name of the chief was explained to him by the old Indians as meaning " the sky over all the earth, 

 coming down to the earth at the horizon." 



