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Kanucas Littlefish - Native American Indians – Music heals
Identifier
022293
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Shamanism, music and the soul – Dr Keith Howard
it remains difficult to separate musical stimuli from the other elements of a ritual, or to relate music to specific affect. I close with a statement about the power of music, the power of voice and drum, words and rhythm, combined but not separable into constituent parts. The speaker, a contemporary American Indian, the Anishnabe (Chippewa) Kanucas Littlefish, relates how after he sang one man regained his hearing and another had a broken leg cured.
Music heals:
When I sing I use vocables and words in my native language. Lines of power exist all around us. What I try to do is tap into that power through sound and vibration using my voice and a drum. I also use a rattle, a gourd or a deer-horn shaker. When the lines of power are met, it is said a healing can occur.
The source of the experience
Native American IndiansConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
Symbols
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
Bone and skeletal diseaseHurt [physical]
Listening to sound and music
Stimulation via resonance
Suppressions
Deafness and tinnitusListening to beating sounds
Singing and humming