Clip: Season 16 | 4m 4s | Video has closed captioning.
Singers perform a song at a summer camp on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. The song describes the horse and it's meaning to the Lakota people. After the performance, Earl Bullhead, Native American Advocacy Program board member, describes the song.
Aired: 05/01/14
(all beating drum) (instructor chants in Lakota) (all chant in Lakota) (student chants in Lakota) (all chant in Lakota) (student chants in Lakota) (all chant in Lakota) - The artist or the composer's a young man from, enrolled member of Standing Rock by the name of Danny S Donnie Spidell, excuse me.
They used it up there for their rides and because of the, how would the level of which these young singers are learning, they try to choose a song that was appropriate and a little bit easy for them to sing.
And so we've never sang it together before, but it came out nice.
- [Interviewer] And what made it appropriate for the day and the situation?
- Oh, because it tells what we call a (speaks in Lakota), this holy dog, that there are, it's a sacred animal.
It brought to our people a means of transportation, a means of, I believe, utilize its power.
And also it's used in various different ways, beast of burden and warfare.
And so it became a society.
(youth hollering) So it's just kinda un as a people, gotta remember that when we say (speaks in Lakota), you know, to remember those things
