Re: Song _Akua Tuta_ from _The Native Americans_

Michael Patterson (aj096@freenet.carleton.ca)
Sat, 7 Jan 1995 20:01:00 -0500

>Original Sender: winchd@rpi.edu (Debra J. Winchell)
>A friend of mine lent me a tape of Robbie Robertson's _The Native
>Americans_. The song _Akua Tuta_ particularly struck. Does anyone know

Hi Debbie
Akua tuta is a song about the land. The message is take care of
the land and yourself. The striking thing about Kashtin is the drum. The
drum from the Innu (or what the French call Montagnais/Naskapi) is very
strong in the Innu country today.
Ona

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