Groundhog Day is well known on the twond of February yearly. This custom has motion pictures and music for it, however no line dance. I took items of the Cherokee Indian Groundhog dance and created a seasonal line dance.
History of Groundhog Day
So how did we come to find out spring based mostly on a big floor squirrel? These marmot-like creatures come out for Imbolc the Celtic vacation marking the start of spring between the winter solstice and spring equinox. A newspaper editor in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania pitched this German custom of checking a badger’s shadow to find out the beginning of spring to the Punxsutawney groundhog membership in 1887. They agreed to test the groundhog’s shadow on the twond of February, and it has been a nationwide occasion since, inspiring strikes and music since.
Native American Groundhog Dance
Native Americas even have their groundhog traditions. Jame Mooney penned one of many Apache fables of how the groundhog tricked a pack of wolves out of consuming him by doing a dance. This is claimed to be the inspiration for the Apache conventional groundhog dance. This dance demonstrates how Apache {couples} work collectively to construct a house.
Princesses of the earth
For this demonstration I used two cartoon Indian princesses, Tiger Lily and Pocahantas. Most Indian tribes don’t have princesses. However, there are just a few exceptions of tribes within the Pacific Northwest that had royalty and Indian princesses. Ironically, each Indian princesses have been motherless.
Tiger Lily
Tiger Lily was impressed by the penny dreadful publications that peter pan writer Barre favored to learn. She is the robust daughter of the chief with respect from her tribe. She had particular obligations and will stick with the chief for a particular dance in Peter Pan. In Tiger Lilys dance to what makes the purple man purple (later re-written what makes courageous woman courageous) was based mostly on the normal Indian “Moon Dance.”
Pocahontas
Pocahontas is the daughter of Chief Powhatan of the Mataponi tribe in Virginia. Her Indian title was Matoaka, which suggests “flower between two streams.” While in Europe a dancing maser composed an English nation dance known as the Indian princess in her honor. These robust ladies are the inspiration for this groundhog dance.
Groundhog line dance tutorial.
Adapted from Cherokee Indian dance.
8 steps ahead arms digging our Burrough like a groundhog.
8 steps again arms digging our Burrough like a groundhog.
8 steps circle to proper arms scooping all the way down to up.
8 steps circle to left arms scooping all the way down to up.
Song: Dawn of Man – Quincas Moreira
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Dancer: Holly Tomazin
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References:
https://nativehistoryassociation.org/groundhog.php
https://www.history.com/news/groundhog-day-history-and-facts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day
http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2017/11/the-true-story-of-pocahontas-historical.html
http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2017/11/the-true-story-of-pocahontas-historical.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Lily_(Peter_Pan)
https://disneyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Tiger_Lily
https://www.mouseplanet.com/13231/The_Forgotten_Disney_Princesses