In Segregating Sound author Karl Hagstrom Miller refers to Snow Deer as a “...Native American exotica number.” I hadn't heard that one before.

I do know the popular label at the time was “Indian intermezzo:”

“In 1901, Neil Moret’s “Hiawatha” set the course for others to follow. While the trend peaked around 1905, additional examples of this type of song appeared throughout the next decade. “Silver Bell” (1905) by Percy Wenrich, “Iola” (1906) by Charles L. Johnson and “Red Wing” (1907) by Kerry Mills are some of those best remembered. Earlier songs that dealt with the Indian had been around since the mid-19th century, and seemed to take their lead from Longfellow’s poem “Song of “Hiawatha.” But these “intermezzi” appeared and flourished in a later era, which paralleled the great popular music explosion of Tin Pan Alley.”
[From the Chatfield Brass Band link]

Not mentioned on Chatfield is the Indianist Movement hitting American classical music at roughly the same time.

More to follow...