Vintage MSD Album of Morris Sevada (1961)

Morris Sevada billed himself as the "Indian Square Dance Caller".  He started his calling career around 1948, turning professional in 1955 and became a traveling caller in 1959. A native Navajo who wrote that he had graduated from the Fort Wingate Indian School.  History teaches us that it was a government-run boarding school for the purpose of "educating" students not to speak or practice their tribal language and customs.  He studied voice under renown tenor, Clarence Toptokah. This album released in 1961 featured MORRIS SEVADA Keep this podcast going by making a contribution using the button below. SUPPORT THIS PODCAST