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Frances Densmore
(left)
and
Blackfoot
chief
Mountain Chief
during a
recording
session for the
Bureau of American Ethnology
in 1916. Densmore (1867–1957) was an American
ethnographer
and
ethnomusicologist
who worked to document the
music
of
Native Americans in the United States
and its use in their cultures. She helped preserve their culture in a time when
white
settlers were encouraging Native Americans to become
Americanized
.
Photo: Harris & Ewing; Restoration:
Michel Vuijlsteke
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