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Pow Wow Idol - Round 7 Voting
Voting Closes 1/18/08
Round 8 Songs - Flag Song

Please vote for your favorite drums. Click on the links below to listen to each drum's songs.

Last place drum will be eliminated

Contestants

Huisache Creek Singers
Standing Horse
Wind Eagle Singers
Young Gunz

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spottedeagle

Hard to believe after this round we will be down to the final 3drums. I am really glad you decided to do this Paul. I think we have all enjoyed listening to the songs of these drums, some, many or all of which most of us have never heard before. I would like to thank all the drums that participated, congradulate them all on jobs well done wether you went out in the second round or the final round you all did a great job.

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Mike Hawk

LOL Flag Song.......??

Foxmoon

Thanks for letting me participate!

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mohawkstar

Check Young Gunz on you tube there's a Womens Traditional and WomensJingle dance from Washinghton D.C on there plus other clips from different pow wows 2007

Kiwehnzii

Before I vote for this one, I hafta agree with ree. He wanted to know..................

Who made the song, why was it made, what is the song about, what language is it sung in, what does it mean?

thunderman

That is a leonard Bearshirt (Blackfoot)song from Siksika Alberta he is a member of the young gun singers that song was made in honor of the Old time Eagle Staff and his late uncles and grandfatherts who passed the gift of songmaking and singing to him Hoka

taz

we may be out but i'm still getting my vote on!!! good luck young gunz. -Red Blanket!

Kamama

Good songs, the voting gets harder and harder each round. Much luck to all!

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StandingHorse

The Flag Song we sang, was composed in the early 1900's by Ellis Chips, whose family lost a relative during WWI, so he encouraged the family by composing this song. This song is considered to be a victory song for our people, who Defeated General George Armstrong Custer in the Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana 1876. We (Lakota/Dakota/Nakota aka Sioux) along with the Northern Cheyenne and Arapahoe teamed up to become the only nation to defeat the United States and attained the U.S. Flag as a victory! That is why we chose to sing this song.


Tunkasilayapi tawapaha kin han
Oihankesni he nanjin kte lo
Iyohlate han oyate kin han
Wicicagin kta ca lecamun welo

The flag of the U.S. will stand forever
Beneath it the people will grow
Therefore I do this (honoring)

Hecetu welo,
Standing Horse Singers

alma cruz

Again voting this time around has been a great thing for my family, although many do not have the computers, I played the songs by phone and they voted again, please list all the one from Vote 7 to this time also, I am trying to aquire at least one computer to be operational in Alto Bonito where my family is from so they can hear and get to vote themselves. thank you for the wonderful songs, I did not get to go to the gathering, I had my mother very critical in Mission Texas, My sister in law and my niece went into early premature labor, and a new lipan indian boy is now amoung us, which we will call Little Feet we welcome him to our family, Dina May Hernandez Guzman Solis is doing fine and now enjoying her son with her husband, when they said, he will not live, and our creator said Oh but he will, the will is mine, and he came to the world on January 4, singing on top of his lungs proud to be here, thanks for all the prayers.
we will meet at our next gathering which so many want again,
Thanks for sharing the moment through your words discriping the day and the wonder of Unity of our people, and they did come from far and near.
God Bless everyone.
Alma Cruz

wabijakwe

FW: * From Lead singer of Wind Eagle*-
Hello everyone this is Shane Webster of the Wind Eagle Singers. We are from the Menominee Nation located in Keshena WI. That is our home. The majority of our singers are Menominee, however we have singers who also represent the Sokaogon Ojibwa of Mole Lake, and the Forest County Potawatomi, and have friends that help us from time to time who rep the Oneida nation located out of green bay WI. We have the privilege to be in this year’s pow-wow idol contest, and have advanced into round 8.
This round you will be indulged with the pride of our ancestors when you here the Menominee Flag song being rendered. The Menominee language is being spoken in this song “this staff brings real good feelings, (pride), and thank you to this Eagle that is in front of us”. (That is as close as I could get in English), and i ask forgivness if I have missinterpereted for at times our language is hard to put into english
Menominee words, we:ske:stapena:we: ki:kae:ki:wanIna:h, Wae:wae:non, kene:iyum
This song was made by John Teller Jr. It’s our first flag song made by one of our own members, for the Eagle Feather staffs. We are proud to represent J.T Jr when we sing it, and also proud to sing if for our Eagle staff carriers.
We sing flag songs, either straight, or with the words of our people for the American Flag because it is the home of our Native Peoples, but we honor the many Eagle Feather staffs, veterans associations, and most importantly, the soverenty of our native people through out Mother Earth. Now that you have the opportunity to understand what is being said in the Menominee Language, I hope that it brings out the pride that it talks about, the pride we hold in our hearts for our eagle feather staffs, the flag of this great nation, and the men, and women who gave the ultimate sacrifice, so that we may live free, and to continue to pray in our native or non-native ways. This song also pays respect to the Eagle who gave its life so that we may have representation in the eyes of the creator.
We would like to Thank John Teller Jr for making such a powerful song, as our hearts and minds flood with the pride of our ancestors when we sing it, and we hope that now you will have that same rush when you here it. From Johns Heart came this song, from ours we sing it, so yours may fill with pride for our peoples. Nahaw Eniq!

canwakanwin

My vote is for Standing Horse!!!