Keywords: activist, AIM, anthropologist, Birch Creek singers, break-through album, Conne River, Dancing Eagle drummers, Eagle Honour Song, Eastern Eagle drummers, Mi'kmaw words, Passamaquoddy Pine Needle Dance Song, praying, Sioux drum traditions, Sɨpekne’katik, smudging, Sulian Herney, Tom Paul, traditional music, training drummers, Wounded Knee second seige

Archive Collection: The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia Archives Collection - Curated by Dr. Trudy Sable

Participants: Mike Doucette, Garry Knockwood, Vaughan Doucette, Anthony Morris, Darrel Morris, Roy Herney, Greg Marr.

Date: 1993

Location: Sɨpekne’katik (Shubenacadie) First Nation, Nova Scotia. Introduction: Eskissoqnik (Eskasoni First Nation), Nova Scotia

Citation: Free Spirit Drummers (1993). Free Spirit Micmac Songs, Sunshine Records, 1993, with Introduction by Vaughan Doucette 2021. Trudy Sable Collection, Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre Archives, Halifax, Nova Scotia.