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Interview with Beverly Jeddore about her life, teaching dance, welcoming dance, celebration dance and clothing, beadwork, the game dance, the feather dance, the snake dance, the blanket dance, the wedding dance, the welcoming dance song, the celebration dance song, learning dances, the waltes game, with the community, learning the songs and dances, dances on the footwear, prayer and song, kind of footwear for dancing, older woman in Eskasoni who knows a lot.

Interview with Lee Cremo - 1st part - about his life, father and the fiddle, learning, Easter Open (speaks about that contest), his first record, Tennessee Championship, his bowing and style of playing, playing for dances, differences in styles of dancing, step-dancing and tap-dancing, his music band, Mi'kmaw music on fiddle and God and music, verbal music, First Nation Meeting in Saskatchewan, dance at Christmas Island, fiddle music considered evil, fiddlers in Mi'kmaw community, occasions for dancing, performance dances, wedding dance, chief of dancing, wedding dance.

Interview with Lee Cremo - 2nd part (continuation from tape LEB/SAY-Ac-39) - talk about wedding dance, speaks about developing music in children, chanting or singing during wedding dance, special wedding song, birthdays, praying, singing for dancing, he sings the song for the dance, celebration dance, Nescaouette dance, learning to dance, dances in home, respect for elders, his wife explains about dancing and dance at Chapel Island, dance died out on Chapel Island, Mi'kmaq life, learning dancing, understanding Mi'kmaw dance movement, step for dances, respect in dancing.

Interview with Lee Cremo - 3rd part (continuation of LEB/SAY-Ac-40) - talk about Nescaouette, children learning dances, Chief of dance and differences in arm positions for dancing, fish type person, stiffer upper body, different styles of fiddling for dancing, other dances, language, dance tradition kept up, occasion for dancing, play for what type of dance, Mi’kmaw tunes on fiddle, eagle dance, feather dance, traditional dance, singing to this dance, lullaby, traditional instrument for Mi’kmaw dancing, rattle, melodies on the fiddle, step-dancing, wedding dance, harvest dance, three kinds of dancing, Mi’kmaw greetings with demonstrations, shoes, clothing.

Item is a video recording of several Mi'kmaw dance styles; this recording was produced by the Mi'kmaq Association of Cultural Studies and collected as a part of the Inverness County Dance Project by LeBlanc and Sadowsky.

Recording notes:

1. Noel P. Denny and his brother Peter P. Denny of Eskasoni performing some chants for dancers (a) K0'JWA, (b) JUKWA'LUK KWE'J'JUOWL at the Eskasoni School. Lee Cremo, Champion Mi'kmaw fiddler as Master of Ceremonies.
2. Port Royal Celebrations June 1985 to Commemorate the 375th Anniversary of the baptism of Grand Chief Membertou. Sarah Denny of Eskasoni and her dancers.
3. 1986 Indian Summer Games in Cambridge Reserve, Sarah and her dancers (reduced in number) but with new participants. The New Brunswick Chanters of Birch Creek participate.

https://youtu.be/OuJdg7seFfo