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Spinning Songs (iich'oshi')

from Navajo Songs From Canyon De Chelly by New World Records

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After the warm-up the women choose their partners to begin the Spinning Dance. According to the late Sam Yazzie Jr, in a 1977 interview: "You just dance in one place
with a partner, and the man always stands on the left side and the lady on the right . . . and after you dance with the lady you have to pay, pay for dancing. If you don't pay you lose a hat, or . . . lose a horse, so you have to pay—each dance. So you go around in a circle. After each song stops, then you go the other way.”' In this set and the other sets of Squaw Dances, which may last an hour or more, dancers may enter and leave the arena at any time. These four songs are again sung in vocables.

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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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