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Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs

INTRODUCTION
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The final "ha!" of the refrain should indicate pleasure.

A brief silence should follow, during which the dancers pick up their hoes, adjust their pouches, fall into line and sing the following song: Song No.

2 Light our hearts and gay As we homeward take our way, While the winds about us play, Singing as we go.
Hy-ya hy-ya hy-ya ho! Hy-ya hy-ya hy-ya ho! Hy-ya ho! Ho! Hy-ya ho! [Music] This song should be repeated many times as all the dancers, with rhythmic, springing steps, wind about the camp ground before they finally disperse.
DANCE III INTRODUCTORY NOTE .-- This dance is from the Corn Ritual Song and is a dramatization of a visit to the planted field after the lapse of a few weeks.

Life has been stirring in the kernels of corn that had been hidden within the little hills, and the kernels now call to those who had planted them to come and see what was taking place.
_Properties_ .-- The same as those used in the preceding dance.

Both the boys and the girls should wear the same costume as in Dance II.
_Directions_ .-- The scene should be the same as in Dance II.


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