Pipe-filling Song, Opagi Olowan

[Fireworxs2012]

Thank you for posting these....Such a blessing....My wife passed away last year. She was and Oglala Sioux and very devout in her Indian ways. We used to have a sweat in our back yard....She loved these songs...She's been gone nearly a year now and I miss her as much today as ever...I play these songs and burn some sage because they remind me of her and the good times we had together...It helps .....Thank you again...

[Nativeblues]

Thank you for sharing these. Is it possible to get these in a downloaded form so I may listen on my iPod?

[buffalo747]

Pilamaye

[smittypants831]

is there a drum beat that plays with this song

[Inipisongs]

@smittypants831 Yes, a drum accompanies all the songs when they are being sung in ceremony. It isn't included here to make the words easier to discern, and because this isn't ceremony.

[supernova367]

Thank you so much for these videos they are a help on my walk down the red road. To know the meaning of what I am singing in the inipi and at sundance is huge.

[asherah12]

Better to learn the correct pronunciation and the meaning before you are in

the middle of a ceremony and don't know what's going on. Plus it's cheered

me up a lot to be able to listen to these. Idon't think it's done in a disrespectful way here.

[Inipisongs]

@asherah12 Thanks for the post.

[organic2me]

@asherah12 I am grateful for the writing to have correct pronunciation. Your effort is totally appreciated. Thank you!

[123GERMZ]

white buffalo calf had came so it is okay to share these songs they belong to everyone who wants to learn them I am very great full o have stumbled upon them so thank you so very much

[Inipisongs]

I'm glad, too. Thanks for the posts.

[BlackbirdSpecOps]

Don't let them get you down. Keep singing and spreading the songs.

[Inipisongs]

No worries. Thanks for the post.

[InfiniteMushroom]

Hey, keep these songs up! I understand they ought not be sung before the profane but, there are respectful ones who will seek out these songs and honor them

[Inipisongs]

Agreed. Thanks for posting.

[NativeCrimes18]

Hey Take off these songs who are you remove them bud

[Inipisongs]

13,500 channel views to date, and yours is the fifth complaint received.

[HuhaMaza]

there are sundance leaders on pine ridge who put out cds of the songs so that other people can learn them.

[Inipisongs]

Feel free to plug any that you like. The John Around Him copy was huge for me when I was first learning songs. His version of this one has slightly different lyrics.

[johnjayr]

@HuhaMaza also on Rosebud and the other Lakota/Dakota/Nakota reservations.  You can get many CDs through the Sinte GleskaUniversity bookstore in Mission, SD. Or the White Horse Trading Post in Mission, SD.

Pilamaya pelo.

[ColectivoTlacuilo]

Pilamaya

[Inipisongs]

De nada. Gracias por escuchar, y responder. Segun nuestra estadistica, muchos en Mexico aprenden estas canciones. Otra vez, gracias.

[ellfie1]

what you need will become so. Indeed!

I expierenced these great songs in a sweatlodge this summer in the Netherlands.

Thnx for posting and I think in this age of transformation it is good that this material is available!

blessed be!

grtz from amsterdam

[Inipisongs]

Translation- Kola, lecel lecun wo Friend, do this this way Hecanun kin Nitunkasila When you do, your Grandfather Wanniyanguktelo Will come to see you Cannunpa wanji yuha ilotake cin You, the one sitting with the cannunpa Miksuye opagi yo Remember me when you fill it Hecanun kin taku yacin kin When you do, what you need Iyecetuktelo Will become so

[Inipisongs]

Hocoka wanji yuha ilotake cin

You, the one sitting in the middle

Miksuya opagi yo

Remember me as you fill it

Hecanun kin taku yacin kin

When you do, what you want

Iyecetu ktelo

Will become so

[FancyShawl99]

This helps well with learning the traditional songs, thanks again

[Inipisongs]

I'm glad you find it helpful. I was hoping that this format, minus drumming and seconding, would make learning them easier. I will be uploading more soon. Thanks for the positive comments.