sundance song--tunkasila osimala yo (thank you song).wmv

[ultimatetomboy]

All my relations!

[dagon1]

Good stuff...

[Sanada34]

would you be able to put up the ghost dance song? with the beat i really would like to learn it

[ambiiXO135]

i am a fourth lakota sioux - my mom is half, she was adopted out of her biological family when she was 6 weeks old in 1961 and has never met her birth family and knows nothing of the culture, therefore me and my brother do not as well. i am thankful u are able to upload these songs - it is a part of my heritage i wasn't lucky to grow up around but i have/will always have a yearning to learn more about it. there is nothing like the sound of native song and native drums <3 Native pride!!

[lilmockme8821]

goot one



[Wildwoodflowerify]

thank you, great singing. it helps to be thankful, pilamayaye

[GAX365]

genial

[insightstar]

Your presentation is appreciated. pilamaya

wachampe wiea wastelo

[scorpian8king]

respect to four clans four directions and respect for the east and the sunshine and west for the sunset colors one people one earth united we will be because its in the prophecy, respect for th elders.

[sb76992]

thank you so much for your videos and the great songs..,love and respect..

[wbworkout]

I am so grateful that you are sharing these songs. So many of us out here are searching and looking to the Teachings of the 1st Nations for guidance. I am again, so grateful. Thank you from my heart.

[Badboy306mustang]

The way I was taught was the 4 Direction Colors are the 4 Colors of man and we were sent to learn different things but to come back together to become one people again To do that we must learn from each other. Aho Mitauke Oyasin!

[brendahodgins]

Your voice is very soothing. Thank you for sharing this.

Brenda xoxo

[61brownpride]

i personally dont understand the ignorance of sharing my way of life with people who wont protect it. and hoka hey originally ment hold strong

[cherokeedreamer]

wopila tanka  thank you for sharing these sacred words with us if it wasent for people who care as much as you do our native tung would be forgotten

[swinvargas]

take theses songs offff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cindahrella1]

wopila tanka for this song!!!!

[MsBrave100]

I was raised around sundance. At first i was a tree girl. Then i moved on to a dancer. I am a chanupa carrier and only 13. I am proud of the path that i chose for my life and i hope that someday my children will do the same. I love hearing the sundance songs because they remind me of dancing and being home for the four days that i can.

[kingofwakinyan]

Hoka Hey kola

[dcalantoc]

alright i loved it ho matakayasin

[MatuweniSni]

Lakĥóliyaye šni čha slolwáye. Nilákĥota šni séče. Uŋgnáš taŋyáŋ ečhúŋ wačháŋni, k’éyaš Lakĥól Wičhóĥ’aŋ kiŋ ahóyapĥiŋ kta héčha.

[kingofwakinyan]

@MatuweniSni how do you make all those gutler indentsions in those words

[MatuweniSni]

@kingofwakinyan Google Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator.

[BLACKDOGCREW]

it shouldnt be out here on the internet its sacred song but whoever taught u this song didnt teach u about respect

[ruckanucka19]

who ever says take this stuff down shud shut there mouths we dint tell u to take u chirch songs down quit hateing

[morningstartn]

Wopila. It is wonderful to hear these songs. I close my eyes and anticipate this year's upcoming dance. Many years of sundance are brought back to life....

Cante Was'aka Win

[ravenswolf57]

thank you from the C'anojou Tyospaye. These are speaking from and to the heart.

[runingblackbear]

smoke the tobacco and your hate will go away

[helen1434]

oh gosh that went right through my body and into my spirit it felt so good the Lakota words and voice well best song ever to me it was more than a song, thank you wopile RedBuffalo82 my Native brother for sending me this song. its good to hear the old voice of long ago

[RedBuffalo82]

nice nice I like congratulations my broth

[canteakimuz]

thank you for sharing

[apachewoman57]

Beautiful!!! It made me cry!

[cetanluzahan1972]

thanks for all the positive comments, although some say that i should take these songs off, and that they should not be placed out for the world to know, i dont see it that way, those that are drawn to this way of life will seek it, atleast here it is free, and not like others who sell our songs and culture, thank you

[TheMarcusLAV]

@cetanluzahan1972 i think the people that were meant to learn this should go find it for themselves. some people may be using these ceremony songs in a wrong way. it may be spiritually dangerous to allow that.

[chaddandbrittany]

@cetanluzahan1972 I know this voice anywhere! Hau Kola! My Brother!!!!

[bannockNlard]

powerful song.... made me weep in the lodge several times....

[Coolguy19642]

great im indian

[TOPHERHARPER]

this is wonderful!

great job!

[SexiiiJuggalette420]

love it! learned this song when I was 17, what song i've been trying to find tho is the grandmother song

[soulrebelmenominee]

wakan tanka might mean the grandfathers as in the stones used in a sweat . hoka he is a charge call and we say it to start a song

[kingofwakinyan]

Thankyou Cetanluzahan you really helped me and i will pray for you thankyou

[ridgetoprunner]

Thankyou, for signing this song, I have been honored to attend a few Sundances, first as a observer, then as a supporter for my Brother. Thank yoy again for this.

Mitakaye Oyasin

[renbuzhi]

Who sings this song? Do you know the name of the singer?

[cetanluzahan1972]

@renbuzhi yea, it was me, singing it raw with no editin or retries, just hitting record and havin fun

[renbuzhi]

@cetanluzahan1972 Ho, kola, tanyan yalowan yelo! Niho kin lila washtewalakin na wakan olowan kin le cantewashteya nawah'un. Pilamayaye!

[tatanka1867]

@cetanluzahan1972 ahoo washta

[TheChellenator]

@cetanluzahan1972 I'd like to play this for my students. Are you comfortable providing a name so I can say who sang it? If not a real name, then just a moniker. Thank you very much for uploading this!

[naskapi1972]

@renbuzhi yes it is me whitehorse ducharme

[TwistedIlluzions]

TUNKASILA OSIMALA

[1shuswaper]

AHO kukstemc ( THANK YOU for sharing feel free to send me a msg...

[Pinewhispers1]

I must make the journey for my third year of commitment, Pray for me. Wopila for the songs.

[cetanluzahan1972]

@Pinewhispers1 will pray for ur strength, this is a hard journey, cante tinsa mani,

[acerb45666555]

happy spring to Lakota lands!

[nicodagger]

cetanluzahan1972 thanks so much! Now I remember reading of warriors in the old times would shout: "hoka he! It is a good day to die"! before going into battle...it's a beautiful language...I wish there was a way to learn it here in Santa Barbara, Calif. And I guess that Tunkasila and Wakan Tanka are the same terms, or I should say two terms for the same thing? Thanks again!

[nicodagger]

So Tunkasila is Grandfather in English? I thought Wakan Tanka, in addition to meaning Great Spirit, also meant Grandfather...and what does "hoka he" mean? Thanks for this beautiful postingt.

[cetanluzahan1972]

yea, hoka he means we are ready, are you ready, depending on the context, when a leader shouts it like in terms of a sundance it is then we are ready, usually just the term hoka means ready the "he" is a addictive to make it a question, Hoka he? are you ready, he is also a term a woman uses to ask a question the male usually uses hwo hoka hwo

[SuperPokemon122]

@nicodagger hoka he means we are ready. usually what they say to close the doors in the sweat. lol

[dakotasunshine1]

beautiful song,beautiful voice,,,,great to hear, brings memories, strength,,pidyamiya!

[kellyraye1]

got me lonesome for that circle....... we must have grown up the same....

[cetanluzahan1972]

yup we did, was in there when i was 13, semi retired now, full timee singer, been singing now for over lol dont kno, 15 -20 yrs, or longer dunno

[cetanluzahan1972]

yea i was raised sundance too. it kool man

[skarzofdv]

there really is no other way to live than the way i've been raised...SUNDANCE.

[littlebuffaloman2]

ever go to canada merrit sundance nice thx song koda