The Cultural Truth in Drum Dance Festival of Aboriginal People in Northwest Territories of Canada

Abstract

Dance is one unique art that whose cultural truth has been misinterpreted based on individualism, assumption, and scholarly perceptive thinking because of its major functionalities of identity and entertainment, thereby suppressing the core truth of originality and essence. It is the originality and essence of any dance that makes it culturally communicative, culturally relevant, and culturally diverse anywhere performed. The dance of any community tells their own story of who they are and how they emerged, but weather it is generally acceptable by all, and sundry becomes the sole purpose of this research using the drum dance of Aboriginal people in Northwest Territories as a study. To justify claims or findings in this research paper the cultural consensus theory by Williams H. Batchelder (which states that people must communally understand and appreciate their culture with one tone before it would be accepted by others) would be used as the working theory for emphasis on Drum Dance festival of Aboriginal People in Canada. In conclusion, the potency of any dance must be fact-based on communally accepted truth on unaltered originality and essence, and not individualized ideology as mere identifying tools and entertaining amplifiers.