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The second Indian Shaker Church at Mud Bay, built 1910 on the same property as the first 1890s Indian Shaker Church structure, 21 May 2015. Practices reflecting Catholic influence include the use of hand-held candles, the ringing of individual hand bells (to a very loud volume), and the sign of the cross (usually repeated three times ...
John Slocum's first Indian Shaker Church at Mud Bay, Eld Inlet, Washington State, circa 1892. In 1881 he became ill and allegedly fell into a coma. [4] His family believed that he was dead, however Slocum revived after a few hours and said that he had had a vision in which he was transported to the gates of heaven. [5]
Mud Bay Sam was the first Bishop (church leader) after incorporation of Shaker Indian Church in 1910. [4] The original church was oriented in an east-west direction, in a manner that would set the pattern for subsequent church architecture. [9] The earliest several churches were about 18-by-24-foot (5.5 m × 7.3 m) plain wooden buildings with ...
The first Shaker Indian church, also called the "mother church", was built above Mud Bay near Olympia, Washington, near the homes the co-founders of the church. [7] [8]The original about 18-by-24-foot (5.5 m × 7.3 m) church was oriented in an east-west direction, in a manner that would set the pattern for subsequent church architecture.
Mud Bay Sam Yowaluch, cofounder and Bishop of the Indian Shaker Church [6]: 3 Mud Bay Louie Yowaluch, Sam's brother and cofounder of the Indian Shaker Church [6]: 3 Angeline Tobin Frank, of the Squaxin Island Tribe, mother of Nisqually Tribe chairman Billy Frank, Jr., grew up within an oyster farming family on Mud Bay. [16]: 37
"Silver Star" is an intermezzo composed by Charles L. Johnson in 1910. [1] In 1911, William R. Clay added lyrics which tell of an Indian warrior eloping with an unnamed Indian maiden whom he refers to as his "silver star".
John Slocum, who began preaching revelations the year before, is seen as being healed by his wife Mary's prayers; the Slocums' followers come to create the Shaker Church, of which music is an integral part. [26] F. L. Ritter publishes the first comprehensive music history of the United States, Music in America. [27]
Most early Shaker music is monodic, that is to say, composed of a single melodic line with no harmonization. The tunes and scales recall the folksongs of the British Isles, but since the music was written down and carefully preserved, it is "art" music of a special kind rather than folklore.