Turkey Tailfeather Woman Explained

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 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

• Book: Romero, Brenda M.. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Great Lakes. 451–460.
• Chippewa Music. 2. Densmore. Frances. 1913. Washington D.C.. Smithsonian Institution. 53. Bureau of American Ethnology. Cited by Romero.
• Web site: Dancing of the Anishinaabe: Our Dance Stories . May 8, 2008 . Stan Louttit and Elaine Keillor . Native Dance . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090605163104/http://nativedance.ca/index.php/Anishinaabe/Our_Dance_Stories . June 5, 2009 .