Native North American Child: An Odyssey was a 1974 compilation

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 album released after Buffy Sainte-Marie

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Buffy Sainte-Marie, OC is a Canadian Cree singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist. Throughout her career in all of these areas, her work has focused on issues of Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Her singing and writing repertoire includes...

's departure from Vanguard Records

Vanguard Records

Vanguard Records is a record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York. It started as a classical label, but is perhaps best known for its catalogue of recordings by a number of pivotal folk and blues artists from the 1960s; the Bach Guild was a subsidiary...

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The compilation runs through the native

Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...

 theme in Sainte-Marie's writing, seen clearly in such songs as "Now That the Buffalo's Gone", "He's an Indian Cowboy in the Rodeo", "Soldier Blue", "My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying" and the title tune. Two tracks, "Isketayo Sewow (Cree Call)" and "Way, Way, Way", are unique to this album and the former reflects an interest in traditional Native American music that she was to expand upon just before her retirement on Sweet America

Sweet America

Sweet America was the twelfth studio album by Buffy Sainte-Marie and her last before retiring from music to work on Sesame Street and in education...

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Track listing

All tracks composed by Buffy Sainte-Marie.

1. "Now That the Buffalo's Gone" - 2:50
2. "Isketayo Sewow (Cree Call)" - 1:18
3. "He's an Indian Cowboy in the Rodeo" - 2:04
4. "Poppies" - 3:02
5. "It's My Way" - 3:36
6. "Moonshot" - 3:43
7. "Soldier Blue" - 3:25
8. "Way, Way, Way" - 1:43
9. "The Piney Wood Hills" - 3:08
10. "My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying" - 6:47
11. "Native North American Child" - 2:13
12. "Little Wheel Spin and Spin" - 2:23