MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE OREGON TRAIL WESTWARD MIGRATION TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN
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For adventure
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For new land to live on
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To escape debtors
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To hear Native American music
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Detailed explanation-1: -Music serves as a medium of communication to celebrate, invoke, or accompany aspects from the cycle of life. In Native American culture the music is closely connected to and even intertwined with nature. It is an integral part of spiritual, social, moral, and cultural events.
Detailed explanation-2: -Smallpox, cholera, measles and other illnesses for which the Indians had no immunity wiped out up to 90 percent of some tribes during the 20 years of the Oregon Trail. “The doom of extinction is over this wretched nation, ” wrote a Methodist historian, Gustavus Hines, of the Oregon Territory Indians in 1850.
Detailed explanation-3: -Native American Music is mostly a vocal art that is usually choral. It is usually melodic, with no harmony, and antiphonal singing. The rhythm is irregular with no pitch. The singing is nearly always accompanied by drums or various types of rattles, flutes or whistles.
Detailed explanation-4: -Native American music is rarely performed by instruments alone.