Thankfully, She was a Song Catcher

The songs of the Dakota and Chippewa would have been lost forever had it not been for a Minnesota pioneer woman who decided their historical American songs must not be silenced. Frances Densmore became one of America's most important ethnomusicologists—saving some of America's most important native music. The girl who grew up in Red Wing, hearing Native music from the encampments outside town, long dreamed of preserving the sounds. But she didn't know how until she discovered Thomas Edis