XIT "Someday" - Plight Of The Redman - 1972

[hu334rd1]

does anyone know the name of the song/spoken that goes sumthin like 'the treatment of our people has been a national tragedy an disgrace, ur america is not the proclaimed land of equality and freedom?' im not sure if that's how it goes. im giving a speech at the university of Illinois this wknd an wud like that song to be my introduction. please and thank you!

[Sportyloveyou]

una de las mejores canciones de la historia

[EkBalam707]

Muchos dicen que este grupo les recuerda su infancia, otros se sorprenden al no conocer que existían.

A este grupo los conocí por un video documental sobre los grupos indígenas norteamericanos, en el cuál al final aparece XIT tocando en vivo la canción "Colors". Tras verlos quedé fascinado con esta banda y conseguí algunos de sus albums.

Los collages de imagenes y música que he subido, son un homenaje a esta gran banda setentera de rock (folk rock, letra de protesta c/temas que eran tabú antes)

[SuperMarlonst]

brings back memeries in piikunnii peigan a place were warriors still exist

[YaTaSay]

Lipan here....great song and video A'a

[jmg1957]

well done..

[rporter1030]

As I suc upon my own braid..1/2 century old. my people gather on the FT Peck Rez in MT to give thanks.Please remember all of the OTHER native blood that was was cast before yours. Aye...

[ojrustin]

does any one know the name of this song?

"I AM WHO I AM AND WHO I SAID I WAS I AM THE IMAGE OF MYSELF I AM INDIAN"

[ElunedDdedwydd]

Beautiful Song, Lovely Graphics, I love this video! Great music, great band!!

Everything said is so true.

[AudryGJ]

It is so sad that even though XIT was singing openly about what was/is going on with Native American, over Thirty years ago, things Still are not Right. What is wrong with this country Why are so many people still having to do without. I Love this Music and more people need to LISTEN to it and become aware of how American Government treats our Native American Brothers and sisters. so Many people are just Unaware and it's about Time they Wake Up and see what's really going on.

[AudryGJ]

Beautifully done



[kovoet]

Love this damn song

[topsiterings]

awesome

[MsSoniawhite]

my mom and dad has this album I loved it growing up, been looking for it for so long, want my kids to experince it. thank you so much.

[FAUSTORICCARDO]

aah aey lah, aah aey lah........

All the lyrics by Tom Bee are beautiful and the XIT band is Great,

Grazie

[barbaranne100]

this is gorgeous....visually and  musically

[denimdreamer]

Wado for sharing this video and XIT's music. Have been a fan of theirs since I was a teenager and first discovered their music. It still speaks truths that need to be heard 40 years later!

[DukeMartin89]

PURE=Native Americans

No one can take that from us!

[walleyesam]

I am a proud Choctaw, I have never lived on the 'res'. I wish that I had, then I would know my people in a firsthand sense, and not by what I have been taught by the media.

[Dead4everYoung]

@walleyesam . my great grandfather on my fathers side was Chief. Choctaw. his daughter married a full German , so im white now.lol. but even though the blood is diluted, im am still so lucky. i know thats where i got my good traits . i have never even talked to someone with Choc. blood. beside my family.so its nice to meet you.

[walleyesam]

@Dead4everYoung, My whole family is from Oklahoma. 'Indian Territory' in the old days. Half of the family is white, and the other is Choctaw. I am 1/4 Choctaw, but I relate more closely too the Choctaw side because of how I appear to other people. Growing up, I considered myself to be white, but as I got older, I became aware of how others perceived me. It's all based on looks no matter where you go.

[nizhoni1616]

Fuck, I'm sorry, but how can you not feel hopeless and despondent after what has happened?? We are nothing now, but some crappy band people hardly know about. We are decimated. Our culture is gone. Help? Anyone? Insight?

[Asdzaan]

@nizhoni1616 Doo nizhoni da! My heart breaks too, but in honor of my parents, grandfather (medicine man), grandmother (strong woman), I have to turn off the TV, gamebox (etc), computer/internet, outside religion (etc), bigotry, modern medicine, and personal laziness... after all I'm the product of all those who SURVIVED so I can live and use those skills within my body and soul! I am proud to the very core of my being!

[Farkas501]

Wonderful Song. Wonderful Tradition. Wonderful Harmony. Wonderful People. This is the  true message

Love from Germany

[bluetoo2]

Grew up on XIT. Got the message. Miss the power of the times,miss the struggle. Seventh generation COME ON.... Black Crow Pine Ridge

[brendalynn1957]

Growing up on the res in Northern AZ I remember hearing XIT at the dances...and loving the music! What a special treat to find it again! Love the music. Love the words. And LOVE the memories

[margo243able]

this song is BAD, good beats and god lyrics, with a lot of meaning to the heart with love!!! This song is the SH**!!!!

[VryDeranged]

i want peace with my soul again



[judyandshan]

I bought this record OMG 40 years ago in germany

[margo243able]

its a good videos

[lockedsorce]

hum

[daddy3h0m3]

XIT was in Anchorage, Alaska at the National Guard hall. What a night Tom Bee is a great person as well as A.Michael Martinez, Mac Suazo, Lee Herrerra,and R.C.Garriss. This is the only album still sought after by a generation of warriors who still fight the good fight...

[jjkcharlie]

@daddy3h0m3 Dude, I wish I was there. Probably in Minto though.

[margo243able]

This is the real music than most of the so-called rez rock band. I can't feel this co-called rez rock these days; so anti-music about the deceptions of how the real music should be played. I love you guys (The Xit) for all your good music

[neilyoungmagic]

magic ;-)

[TheBradSpence]

Its funny you say that silvertear, my Dad played this for me in the early 80"s. That's when I remember XIT. Happy to find this music again. Thanks XIT.

Kihew Awasis

[silvertear]

My dad would play this song for me when I was a baby.

I'm 22 and still love this song.

[margo243able]

It's funny how the congress men in the white house talk about homeland security. This is the only homeland we've ever known while other non-native Americans came else where. Our Great Chiefs fought battles on our own homeland for protection and security of their people. Good inspiration music...Can't get enough of the XIT

[hmngbrd]

Very nice.

[xittribe]

XIT, PRIDE OF NATIVE AMERICAN & FIRST NATIONS INDIAN..... 1st saw XIT back in da 70's in 4 corners NM, WHAT A WONDERFUL MOMENT... dat day still lives on in my head like it happen yesterday, indian education u can't beat it, believe me degrees i'v got don't mean a ga-dam thing, TRUE HAPPINESS IS ON OUR HOMELANDS......

[hdlroc]

..XIT ROCKS!!!

[yaksamate]

I just wanted to let everyone know that, Tom Bee, is a very successful producer and owns a recording company named, "Sound of America Records". All of the original XIT albums are available through his company along with much much more incredible Native recordings. Check it out!

[dayna25]

My cousin Ty and friends from town use to listen to this over and over again. Still sounds awesome. Your Battle River Cree friends from the battlefords.

[Terashirma]

Along with my brother, Russ Terrana and Mike Valvano, I produced this song. What a beautiful video to compliment the music. I'm touched.

Ralph Terrana

[dawnssister]

This takes me back to 1975 Pojoaque, NM. Two white college chicks (BFF) watching the New Mexico sun set over the Jemez Mts, listening to Plight of the Redman w/ tears in our eyes. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane. I am ordering the CD for my husband who has never had the priviledge of hearing it

[orlando4685]

wonderful memories, i'm 42 yrs old and remember my brothers listenin to these LP's also with the lyrics..XIT ROCKS!!!

[lakotaprincess1982]

ahhh... true ol skool native rock i love it this reminds me of my dad when he used to drink budwieser and listen to xit, buddy red bow and the featherstone...oh and redbone and this was when i was a kid 5 6 years old

[siksikachickee]

OMG! saw XIT at Siksika in 1977...during our centennial celebration!  Thanks for posting!!

[siksikachickee]

OMG! saw XIT at Siksika in 1977!  thanks for posting!

[minutegongcoughs]

Terrific band. Seventies esoterica.

[labregott1]

Nice...Thank you

[dexterscout]

oki napis i'm from the kainai reservation...were part of the Blackfoot Nation confederation...nice to meet new peeps.we live in the most rasict part of canada..but were strong..

[cherokeeladyfox]

Is that Buddy RedBowe? Not too much of his music around anymore, they are hard to come by.

thanks for sharing

nite_owl

[DAWL01]

Someday.

[Alfleftwich]

Hey ,

this a Lakota song! From South Dkota - Oglalal Sioux

[presidentente]

@Alfleftwich thats right - how did you know that?

[BuggsBonnie]

I had forgotten about these songs. My older sister used to listen to these when I was just a kid. Thanks for posting.

[bornagainburton]

Buenísimo, excelente disco de Xit, saludos desde Argentina

[SHAPESHIFTERRECORDS]

O' si Yo' Wa Do I ya Enole Wa Ya.

Thanks man this is awesome i remeber this song well as my grandmother used to get tears and then say it was the wind in her eyes.

TASLAGI cherokee

[f95ultra]

yeah, hat im creamcheese immer die tanzfläche

rappelvoll gemacht; habe das viny (neuauflage) noch...thanx for posting, lange drauf gewartet

[TAXtheAtheist]

pretty cool

[burntsole]

OMG - this one too. OH MAN...I am so happy right now! I have to cry.

[AlluringShrew]

I agree! I'm younger than most people who know this music, but I was raised on it and it brings back sooo much emotion!

[cleanhomer]

Absolutely Awesome!!!

[ApacheBIood]

This music was all good and being there was something I will never forget.

PUNCHAIN

[khogner]

This inspires through obstacles which I have on this eartly path, finally completing my college education. The dream doesn't end...

I glimpse the grandest picturesque view ever imaginable, truely breath taking.

To the north going to the eastward horizon & foreground is the little colorado gorge winding as a snake to the mother canyon.

viewing the grand plateau-ous contry side with Navajo Mountain in the distance and the hopi mesas to the east, then above it beautful blue sky.

[sitka59]

love this song.. proud to american indian.

[DLSNiiganii]

Right on! Thanks so much for putting this up. I never thought I'd get a chance to hear this again. It is such an awsome song. Thank you Creator for Tom Bee and XIT.

[WildkatAmsterdam]

I was just gonna post that I bought it in South Africa in the early Eighties! Forgot all about them til I heard "John Two Hawks" Playing with Night Wish on a song called Blood Mary's Creek. This got me thinking back to what I used to listen to.

[eradeklerk]

Listened to this in South Africa in 1978 !!!!! How wicked....great music,great messages from XIT....thank you

[NucDoc1]

Well then you will be happy to hear that I bought their first LP back in the '70s in..... South Africa :)

Their second album was bought in Greece in the early 80's

The good word DOES get around....

Thank you for all the great stuff you have been sharing!

[sirharryct]

nucdoc1...

i also had the album silent warrior in the 70's but have lost it since!

praise the lord for youtube!!

GT...

[Uhuete]

Ciertamente, aquí en este continente existe algo de apatía por las culturas nativas de todas las Américas. Pero te puedo asegurar , pues yo viví allí, que en España existe un respeto y admiración por las culturas americanas (mexica, inca, maya, navajo etc) sorprendente. Y pudiera asegurar que en el resto de Europa es igual.

Ulises

[Uhuete]

I bought the LP Silent Warrior in Spain in 1977 and I still listen this majestic music, now on CD.