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2
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Great Basin Style

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Simialr to ca-yuman, short phrases that repeat exactly

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Eastern Style

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Call and response

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Athabascan Style

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Rhythm of 1/4 and 1/8 notes, nasaly sound

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Northwest Coast Style

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Flute and polyphony (multiple notes)

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California-Yuman Style

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Relaxed, 3 of 4 notes for each notes, small rise in middle

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Plains Style

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High loud intense singing, contour slope

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8
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49 songs

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Sung at powwow, really simple vocables and english

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Yeibichii

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Song from nightway ceremony

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Enemyway Ceremony

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Healing ceremony, someone who has been in battle, two camps reenact war

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Nightway Ceremony

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Healing ceremony, public general, 3-9 days, costume as Navajo God, sing over person, sand painting

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Water drum

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Used during peyote ceremony, animal skin & water drum

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He-ye-no-we

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Vocable at the end of every verse, peyote ceremony

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14
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Native American Church

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Practices peyote ceremony

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Peyote Ceremony

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Entire night, ingest cactus buttons with Christian elements

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Moccasin Game

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kids game with music dancing and guess rock in which moccasin

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17
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Ghost Dance

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Religious, in Dakotas, Messiah will return and make all like before Europeans, made invincible in battle, after wounded knee 1890 died out

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powwow

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Celebration of gathering tribes, traditional dance and songs

19
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incomplete repetition

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Melody or phrase repeated, but not the same way

20
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vocables

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Nonsense syllables