Media for Students (Won't Bow Down - The Traditions of the Mardi Gras Indians)
All the media resource links for each lesson in "Unit 5 - Won’t Bow Down - The Traditions of the Mardi Gras Indians" are available below.
Lesson 1 - Who are the Mardi Gras Indians?
- Videos
Lesson 2 - Sew, Sew, Sew - What Goes into a Mardi Gras Indian Suit?
- Videos
- Big Chief Bo Dollis, Jr. describes Carnival Traditions (2:07)
- Mardi Gras Indians from St. Joseph’s Night - Jules Cahn, 1970 (7:07)
- Big Chief Demond Melancon from the documentary All on a Mardi Gras Day Stop the video at the 2:30 mark
- One Bead at a Time (2:42)
- Witch Doctor Bird Beading (1982) (2:57)
- Big Chief Bo Dollis, Jr. Beadwork (3:43)
- Timelapse of Big Chief Bo Dollis, Jr. Beadwork (0:22)
- Big Chief Bo Dollis, Sr. on Mardi Gras Dancing (1:59)
- Big Chief Bo Dollis, Sr. on the Making of Mardi Gras Indian Suits (1:41)
- Worksheet - the Mardi Gras Indian Suit
- Photos:
Lesson 3 - How Do We Pass on Traditions?
Lesson 4 - Firewater - the Music of Mardi Gras Indians
- Videos:
- 2022 Uptown Super Sunday (5:44)
- Big Chief Jake Millon and White Eagles rehearsing My Big Chief’s Got a Golden Crown (8:23)
- Quint Davis describes recording Handa Wanda (4:11)
- Handa Wanda (3:16)
- To-Way-Bac-A-Way (1958) (play clip to 1:06)
- Two Way Pak E Way by The Wild Magnolias (1974) (7:49)
- Tu Way Pocky Way by Big Chief Juan Pardo and the Golden Comanches (2015) (3:32)
- Tu Way Pocky Way by Flagboy Giz (2021) (2:22)
- Firewater from Take Me to the River New Orleans
- Firewater by Big Chief Bo Dollis, Jr. and the Wild Magnolias (4:28)
- Firewater by Cha Wa (4:49)
- Recordings:
- Worksheet - Mardi Gras Indian Songs
