Honoring Song (Vietnam Song)
1972 · Indian Records IR-175 · White Shield, North Dakota
- Artist
- Arickara Singers
- Title
- Honoring Song (Vietnam Song)
- Release
- 18 Arickara Songs
- Year
- 1972
- Label
- Indian Records # IR-175
- Format
- LP · Album
- Country
- White Shield, North Dakota, USA
- Genre
- Indigenous American Music · Pow-Wow
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation — Indigenous Americans
North American Indigenous records, the back of the record said the songs were performed by the Arickara Singers, featuring Bobby Bear, Terry Howling Wolf, John Fox Sr., Dan Hopkins, Dan Howling Wolf, and Alvin Wells. The front cover featured a photograph of Arickara and Mandan delegation in Washington D.C. in 1874, with three escorts. The songs on the record were recorded at Whiteshield, North Dakota on 2 February 1972, and featured the track "Honoring Song (Vietnam Song)" (Indian Records # IR-175) - the record label was founded in 1968 by Oscar Wiley Humphreys in Watonga, Oklahoma, USA. The label originally started as a business called "Cheyenne Indian Village", selling Indigenous American good, before moving into the music sector.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Indian Records, Inc. IR-175 (Watonga, Oklahoma), mono LP, track B4; recorded at Whiteshield, North Dakota, 2 February 1972, by Oscar Humphreys. Side B: Flag Song; Honoring Song (American Legion War Dead); Honoring Song (Old Scouts Song); Honoring Song (Vietnam Song).
About the artist
Arikara (Sahnish) drum group from the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota: Bobby Bear, Terry Howling Wolf, John Fox Sr., Dan Hopkins, Dan Howling Wolf and Alvin Wells. [Source: Discogs; sleeve]