Skip Dance (ahildi ahi')

from Navajo Songs From Canyon De Chelly by New World Records

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Sam Yazzie Sr. explained that the Navajo Skip Dance and the Two-Step were relatively new to the Squaw Dance. He believed that a singer named Archibald Sandoval, from Lukachukai, first learned songs from other tribes and transformed them into the Navajo Skip Dance about seventy years ago. Others followed, starting a trend toward composing Navajo songs based on Plains and Pueblo music, and even on American popular songs. These three Skip Dances have no translatable texts.

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from Navajo Songs From Canyon De Chelly, released January 1, 1990
Chorus: Frank Jishie Jr., Raymond K.Yazzie, Sam Yazzie Jr. (rattle), Sam Yazzie Sr. (leader and drummer).

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