cantico

noun3

1. •
   A sacred ceremony of the Algonquin tribe that involved dancing in a circle, at which colonists were not welcome.

   • We lodged in the woods that night, and heard the shouting of the Indians at a cantico, which they were said to hold that evening in a town hard by. — 1888
2. •
   A dance festival in which colonial Americans and natives both participated.

   • The cash-book tells us of the expense of himself and family going to fairs, and Indian canticoes, probably gotten up to amuse the Proprietary. — 1876
3. •
   An uproar; activity that is full of high spirits and violent action.

   • It was almost like father and son meeting to adjust a little misunderstanding arising from the latter's canticoes. — 1873