Buffy Sainte-Marie Qu'appelle Valley Saskatchewan

[pogie516744]

dance me around

[jonahmoehring]

Thank You! I've been searching for this song which went around in my head, heart, and soul, 35 years long, and I'm totally happy that times have changed not always and everywhere to the worse. thanks to youtube, buffy and gewajega

[slimshadee2008]

Thats my mothers cousin!

[grantg60]

I went to Saskatchewan in 1984, I have friends there. We went for the day to Qu'Appelle Valley. So it's nice hearing a song about somewhere I've been, the fact that it's such a great song is even better.

[delacam1]

I have been wanting to hear this again for ages and here it is. Qu'appelle Valley is one of my desert island discs. Great video. Thanks

[GreenDevilAngel]

one of the strongest n honest real humans being in the world..

...such a beauty massege n brave song..

love from the four winds

the shiny gold in the banks

n the crazyatomarmilitary

[taibeleeds]

Peace&Love&Happiness-Let the sunshine in

[NDN96]

Love this song because it's about my roots, Payepot Cree Nation in the QuAppelle Valley.

[walkingtree9]

Thank you thank you thank you so much for this. The album this is from (Sweet America) has been out of print for years, doesn't seem to be available on CD, I have it on vinyl, it is a treasure, I love this song so much! Buffy's powwow rock style is wonderful! So is your video!

[nada25]

@walkingtree9 thankfully, it is back in print: The Pathfinder - Buried Treasures (2010)

[taibeleeds]

This is more better every time, Better than all the rest

[WALRUS6777]

Thankyou sooooo much for this song-i love it and havent heard it for so long!!!!

[braveandtall]

thank you for posting Buffy.

[moonros21]

thank you so much for posting!!

[taibeleeds]

I wish I was born in Qu'appelle Valley, Saskatchewan but in HELLsinki

[taibeleeds]

I wish I was born Qu'appelle Valley, Saskatchewan, but in Hellsinki, Finland

[NDN96]

My Home And Native Land! The Payepot Cree Nation in the Qu"Appelle Valley.

[LanaRedean]

Was raised in Fort Qu'Appelle Saskatchewan....she is a beautiful woman in and out with only goodness and truth to sing....wonderful.

[RachelEMacD]

that's beautiful!!!!!

[Maridun50]

Beautiful song from a beautiful singer/songwriter

[shannieshits]

She sings of my home land. It was where I was raised. She is a relative. Awsome. Love it

[CynthiaBDemented]

So beautiful !!

[Minosis67]

Buffy is the pride of Piapot First Nation located in the heart of the Qu' Appelle Valley in Saskatchewan. If you look up a town called Fort Qu'Appelle,Saskatchewan...east of Regina, Then you will see where the valley is located. I was born and raised in the Qu'Appelle Valley on my home reserve, Pasqua First Nation. I have loved Buffy's music since I was a small child!

[777fallingangel]

This is my feeling very good and hopefull song. Thanks a lot!!

[robpattinzon]

i love my aunty :) woo, piapots first nations!  :D

[shunkahaska]

it calls to the heart of all lost peoples

[NDN96]

The pride of my Rez, The Piapot Cree First Nation. Buffy makes me proud of my birthplace. Some images of our beautiful Qu'Appelle valley in the video wouldhave been nice.

[shunkahaska]

first heard buffy many years ago just refound her [and myself ]had forgotten old ways

[iamearthbornami]

saw Buffy in london July 99~love her so so much~this is my favourite for many many years~please come to Ireland soon Buffy~in love and gratitude

[nilvik]

My now dead sister lead me to this wonderful music. Thank you buffy. and love to you all my fellow humans.

[1954asenath]

love her music ever since i first heard soldier blue. this is my favourite just love it.

[decadentdavid]

My fave singer. Seen her live in London in 1973 and not again until July this year. And she's back again in January '10. Spoiling me and am loving it. Wrap me in your blanket.....xxx

[stevejah7]

Saw buffy in london in c. 93 - she stunned me like bjork years later.adore this song and guess who i saw in paris. hope i will see her in uk again. love to all you buffy fans xxx

[anaguilera1]

i love this think of my daughter and my coutry

[Chastalard]

Thank all of you for loving her! I've had Buffy in my life since middle school...she's my favourite aunt....all the best! Briar.

[selkie62]

I've loved her since I was a girl and have seen her in concert. This song reminds me of home and family, it makes me happy but also can bring me to tears. Love it..

[Chastalard]

You've seen her. I envy you. What are your favourite albums and songs. I'm a little Native, my grandfather was halfbreed...as tho that''s something. But more impotant let me know about the music...all the best, Briar

[EarlandPatty]

Thanks! Buffy is the best!

[continentalvictory]

Pure genius.

[murriskman]

Without to be a dreamer I have sometime more to realize, that she hit my heart with this song very deeply - that what not every musican that I like could say from itselves.

[no98of1000]

I loved this song from the Red Box version and thanks to the power of the internet's good side have found my way to the original artist - what an amazing and interesting woman! A new world of music and art to discover.

I used to sing this song to my baby daughter when she was tiny wrapped up in a blanket and dancing around

[patbirder]

One of the most powerful and beautiful songs I have ever heard. Some songs carry magic; this is one of them.

[frittenfred]

Even at a distance of 5,000 Miles from Saskatchewan, this song reaches every part of the body - from the feet through the heart into the head ...

I heard it 22 years ago and since then occasionally thought of it, but never knew lyrics nor title nor artist.

- Thanks sooo much to Gewajega for posting and thanks to everyone who shares the joy of listenning to it; esp. to hitomusic who showed this nice detail at 2:50 - and, of course, to the great Buffy Sainte-Marie (and her background vocalists)

[murriskman]

But she sang it like a masterpiece; said I as a German (and sometimes also a poet) too ...

[jenniem17]

i wrote these lyrics

[cheech612]

Beautiful song & beautiful country, I drive by there on my way to Lac St. Anne, AB from Winnipeg, where there is a religious catholic Aboriginal pilgrimage every year. We get out of the truck and look at the land on the side of the highway and imagine there are no fences, no farms, just us and the sounds of the land. I tell my daughter this was once OURS (yes I'm FN), imagine just us and the animals around. NOTHING. Then a SEMI drives by to ruin the moment blaring their horn. SERVES ME RIGHT EH?

[hitomusic]

The opening vocal line is just unreal fabulous. It's pure electricity;the Native American vocal patterns in this intensely fabulous song completely beyond measure.Her voice is other-worldly magic.Truly one of the greatest recordings of all time in the history of music. And, amazingly, it is relatively obscure. She slides her voice upwards on the last part of the word 'Saskatchewan' (2:50-2:51)).Pouring her heart out about her home-her ancestral place of origin.The lyrics so utterly beautiful.

[loserswin783]

you really noticed that little detail at 2:50? that's amazing. i always thought it was a member of the chorus, but maybe it was buffy herself.

i think i know exactly what you mean - it's so wonderful...

[odovicor]

What a wonderful listener are you. I had noticed that slight incline myself, just one of the many nuances of this wonderful singer. Hey, check out the new video of Buffy, entitled "No No Keshagesh." Thirty years later and she's still moving us toward the gods.

[acerb45666555]

Folk-Metal. on one of buffys vidz i said it was kind of like a subdued version the folk metal used to keep cultures alive in europe. and that you guys could use folk metal to do the same thing! and some people who dont care about Cree cultural survival gave the thumbs down. why dont they want the world to know Cree world? the stories, the heroes, the land! ......vid:."Eluveitie-Inis Mona"

[Itsbloodycoldhere]

She is a lovely person. I hope she comes back to the Valley soon.

[loserswin783]

*shudder*

still, after 32 years of listening

[hitomusic]

It is intensely beautiful, isn't it. The repeating chorus. The thumping beat. The group vocals supporting her. Her voice rising high above and soaring through so crystal clear.

[Morningwasichu]

Gewajega,

thank you a million times for posting this song. I've been looking for it it seems like forever, meaning since I saw the movie "Spirit of the Wind" (which, for all the looking I've done, I cannot find anywhere).

I appreciate it.

[madrasgreg]

check out the Red Box version of this song.

[walkingtree9]

Thanks so much for posting this!!! It's never been available on CD and it is one of my all-time favorites of Buffy's songs. From the album "Sweet America" which has several other great songs in similar (powwow rock) style. Why isn't this album reissued on CD?? Thanks again!

[lauamysno]

I think maybe you can find it on ebay...

[odovicor]

And thank you for the designation, "powwor rock" style, very apt. Now I can put a name to what I have loved for decades now.This is a wonderfully uplifting song. I recently bought a CD, recently released, that includes three of her albums on it: Buffy, Sweet America (from which this song is taken), and Changing Woman. Much good here. Just listen to "Eagle Man Changing Woman" and you'll be hooked.

[068636281]

i had to listen to this for homework...

[odovicor]

A few months back I searched for Buffy's "Tall Trees in Georgia," but didn't find it by her,though I did find Eva Cassidy (RIP) singing the song. It was pleasing to hear others singing Buffy's songs--and to good effect. Buffy Sainte-Marie and Joni Mitchell are my two favorite singers--and both from Cananda! Must be something in the water.HAHA Loved this video. Thanks for posting it.

[taddyd1]

Both disciples of Queen Joan BAEZ.

[odovicor]

Love Joan Baez, too. I was about 13 when "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" hit the airwaves. From there I began to buy new and old music from, as you aptly say, the Queen. She, like Buffy Sainte-Marie, has kept her integrity as, to use a phrase from E. M. Forster, an "imperialist of the air." The only legitimate imperialism. A great day to you.

[Morningwasichu]

No, perhaps Joan and Joni were disciples of Buffy instead. She started the style before both of them.

[taddyd1]

Baez was on the cover of Time (unheard of for female vocalists at the time, esp a 22 year old) a couple years before Buffy even recorded. Both Joni and Buffy have recalled their early fascination with Joan. So have: Janis Ian, Emmylou, Laura Nyro, Bonnie Raitt, Linda Rondstadt, Patti Smith, Lucinda Williams etc etc etc. Buffy is a TOTAL GENIUS in her own right though and is the only true ROCKER among the Folk Divas.

[Morningwasichu]

I stand corrected. Thank you. I also love Joan Baez, and I surely don't want to start a turf war between her and Buffy.

[odovicor]

I first heard this song almost 30 years ago, by which time I was already a lifelong fan. Ms. Sainte-Marie got me through the hard teen years, and I've been "dancing the rainbow" ever since. Thanks for "putting us up where we belong," you magnificent gift to the world.

[argaum1887]

Great stuff!

I first heard this song on Radio 1 (Janice Long) over 20 years ago and have been looking for it ever since. It's been re-issued and you can get it from Amazon.

[fannycraddock99]

THE best Buffy song ever!

[ckovertime]

I love this song. I had been looking for it for years! Thank you!

[andrewjcraig]

I first heard this song performed by the British electro band Red Box -- very different, but also strange and wonderful. Then years later I found out it was by Buffy, and heard her version. Magnificent!

[missyobey]

Me wuv this song,,I also come from this beautiful place in Saskatchewan....

[darwingad]

I come from this ver same place I love this songggg Make me proud!!!

[odovicor]

Well said! I'm from rural Kentucky, where Buffy Sainte-Marie is hardly known. I've always been a little smug about Buffy,only because she's so special. Makes me proud to read a comment from someone who can claim the kinship of place. "Off into outer space you go..." Best!

[garyish5]

I have waited many years to hear this song I visited this valley in 19080 as part of a dance group from Ontario I just love it

[cvte2]

this is one of my favorite songs by Buffy. She is the pioneer singer/writer/artist for Native Americans and I am so happy tho have met her. She is a very classy lady, humble and very gracious!

Love you Buffy!!!

She has a new cd coming out soon!!!! Can't wait!

[mjw0047]

Thanks a million times for posting this. Buffy is one of my favorite Native American singers.

[ladyanneboleyn1987]

I live like 2 hrs away from quepella!

[lebenswasser]

I was looking for this song for more than 30 years. Now it´s xmas in may. Thanks for posting this!

[a12468753]

Hello from Greenland,Buffy is one of best singers/musicians ever

[AleisterWilson]

two weeks since a comment--mine--for this masterpiece. . .buffity!

[AleisterWilson]

Thanks, my favorite Buffy song by far, and many moons since I've heard it. I don't think anyone else has posted it, so, good work!

[ioriorioriorio]

I've been to lots of great concerts over the years...the greatest ever, was buffy's free show on the new haven ,ct. green in the 90's!

[bibapoloula]

Thanks for posting this.

[Reburroughs]

Pitty about the background noise....can you try again...take me back to where my heart belongs....

[RobbyLovesAriHest]

Thank you for posting this song -- I've heard a cover of it (holcombe waller) but i'm very excited to hear Buffy sing it!

[eightycargo100]

thx for posting.great song !

[metta108]

this is one of my most favourite songs ever written from the heart, and Buffy is one of best singers/musicians ever because she always sings from the heart.

thanks so much for posting this song....it speaks for so many of us...(wherever our 'Qu'appelle valley, SK' may be)

[emkahnapa]

@metta108 my rez is just beside buffy's and part of our rez is in the valley...just 20 minutes north of Regina, SK

[Gewajega]

Thanks for visiting my channel and for your comments!

[Gewajega]

:-))))

[gregbhere]

THANK-YOU!

I have been searching for this song for as long as I can remember, at least 10 yrs.

THANK-YOU!

[buntepsucks]

awazz buffy.....atim

[pianokruk]

Her best song!!!!I Saw her in concert in Holland in 1992....One of the best concerts I ever saw!

[hitomusic]

The swinging rhythm is just fabulous, thumping ahead with the striking of the hard percussive elements; the thumping drum groove combined with the group singing and her electrifying lead is unforgettable. There is a steady bottom beat (heartbeat thumping) to this song that is undeniably Native American.

[hitomusic]

This is one of the greatest recordings of all time. What an amazing song. The vocal (Buffy St. Marie) is spine-tingling; hair-raising. The lyrics are beautifully crafted to the music. The beat(Native American)and the non-word vocal lines (native) is awesome. The way this song begins is incredible. The call-and-response lead/background group singing is awesome. Pure native singing adapted to a modern arrangement.