Jana Mashonee - Hark The Herald Angels Sing (Sung in Lakota)

[sunseray69]

I do not understand the Lakota language when spoken but I have NEVER heard this song sung so beautifuly in my life.

[shirleystorer]

Aho!



[stanyannie]

I LOVE your interpretation and your beautiful voice. Thank you for sharing.  I just ordered your CD for a gift for my beautiful 1/2 Hopi daughter-in-law. Thank you!

[OldShoeMan]

Oh, I am so blessed to have been led to Jana's Christmas music. LOVE LOVE LOVE it.

[gultruse]

wow, absolutly wonderful

[chocolateebug]

is there a nice version like this in English?!?!?! jeezzz people try to ruin it by putting beats into it. and it just sounds beautifull like thissssssss

[AlanLambert1950]

You made my day when I found this. I had a great-great grandmother

that was part Cherokee. It is not enough to claim, but I am giving respect

to all Native Americans.

[kpow100]

I love listening to the Native and African language in songs. It makes it so much stronger!!!!

[bdiddy77]

Not on itunes?

[pickawinner68]

Thank you for sharing your talents:)

[kitsune720]

Wow she has a beautiful voice. This song sound just as pretty in Lakota as it does in english. <3

[iamearthbornami]

love peace and happiness dear Jana for you and yours this Christmastime

[cutegirl00179]

Native American Women are beautiful! I also suppose the Native men look handsome as well, the dude from Twilight is hot....lol, though I hate the movies and books.

[fasx56]

This lovely lady sings with tremendous feeling, you do not have to understand the words to appreciate this beautiful voice.

[ssvega05]

She has an amazing voice.NO ONE CARES WHAT COLOR SHE IS!!!!!

[bdiddy77]

@ssvega05 I care about what color she is, because Natives are awesome.

[leadingshield]

Now, down to reality...........I know Jana, and as far as I am concerned, she is a most amazing human being, she has the voice of an angel and has the time to give of herself for the benefit of our younger generation.........a cause she is so dedicated to.

I love you Jana and the beautiful spirit that eminates from within. Wakan Tanka ni'ci un na cante mitawa kici kunkekipi ob mani!

[leadingshield]

Get over yourself "ThomasASwilling" What colour are American Indians meant to be ???? In your eyes, obviously only dark skinned!! I have seen American Indians as white as snow, and some as black as oil............and besides, no matter what colour, we are all of the one race....the "Human race!!" If you have nothing better to do than pick on peoples skin colour because they don't look like you, then piss off and come back when you get a life !!!

[honeybeegarden]

Thomas has issues. He sounds like a black man obsessed with skin color. Native American people have a range of skin tones, we can be light with dark black hair, olive skin with brown hair, dark brown with black hair, some of us even have freckles. Get over yourself Thomas. I'm also light skinned in the winter and brown in the summer. That's not commercialization, that's biology. It would have been "commercial" to artificially darken her to make her look more "american indian" for the album.

[silverbreezern]

BEAUTIFUL!

[Nenayahe]

Ah! Wakan lowanpi ce, tonpi kin ilowanpi. Wo'lakhota qa nakun, Wo'waunsila ahi.

Iyaki s'a po o'was, Wo'ohiye tanka ce. Qa ogligle ob lehan, tonpi kin oyaka po. Qa ogligle ob lehan, tonpi kin oyaka po. Christ wankan oholapi, Christ itancan ohinni. Ohanketa hcin hi ce, Mary he cinhintku kin. Iyaki s'a po o'was, Wo'ohiye tanka ce. Qa ogligle ob lehan, tonpi kin oyaka po ...ohhh,ohhh ohhh ohhh.:) Iyaki s'a po o'was, wo'ohiye tanka ce. Qa ogligle ob lehan, tonpi kin oyaka po.

lyrics omakiya ye, pila

[ThomasASwilling]

Singing in Lakota, eh? Her bio says she's Lumbee--from North Carolina.

In case you're wondering about my earlier post, I'm Tsalagi, aka "Cherokee"--that's an Indigenous American nation. I just think it bites to feel like one has to lighten one's skin, sound more "mainstream", and generally jump through hoops as if there is some cosmic law that says that we have to suit the sensibilities of one specific race of people. Creator made us all equal. Stop pandering!

[ThomasASwilling]

I was struck by how the cover designer saw fit to lighten her skin to make her more "acceptable" to mainstream white America. How utterly commercial!

[ReaquaintedHorror]

@ThomasASwilling

Did the designer say that? I thought it was because the rest of the graphic art on the cover is a glowing bright white. Having her skin as it would naturally be would contrast so much with the rest of the cover that it wouldn't seem as if it's a snowy white winter. 

I think the brighter skin looked like it is caused by the glow from a light, not the actual skin itself. *shrug*

[ThomasASwilling]

@ReaquaintedHorror The designer didn't say that and didn't have to. Anyone who has used Photoshop can see that the entire image was faded to make her paler. The whole image looks washed out. It isn't the lighting. It's simply commercialism 101, and it's nothing new. On the other hand, it may have been art for art's sake, like the negative color images in Jana's "Stairway to Heaven" video posted by malcolmlhj14. Personally, I think her natural skin color would have been better.

[Wemlus]

I am only 1/8 Native American but I deeply respect their culture and history, as I respect all cultures and histories.

We're all natives of Earth. We can all learn from each other. Europeans brought technology and in turn Native Americans taught us that nature allows humans to exist, not the other way around.

Maybe I'm just in a really good mood, but I love Earth and everyone in it.

[meezergeezer]

I will definitely be adding this to my iTunes. So beautiful!

[leadingshield]

asiam994!!! Duh!!!! Read the title !!! It says......"SUNG IN LAKOTA!!"

Kola Jana, Wakan Tanka ni'ci un na cante mitawa kici kunkekipi ob man !

Mitakuye oyasin

[asiam994]

@leadingshield i know it says lakota i couldnt hear it. i kno what lakota sounds like im dakota just couldnt hear the lyrics over the music

[asiam994]

sweet i cant hear her tho its sounds like shes singing in ojibway or something

[MattJist]

@asiam994 she issinging in Lumbee...its another type of native Language! and she is good at it too! and is a Beautiful young native american women!

[ThomasASwilling]

@MattJist Well, she SHOULD be good at it; she is Lumbee--and Lumbee isn't "another type of native language", it's a distinct Indigenous American nation, like the Tsalagi, Creek, Chickasaw, Lakota, Apache, Dineh (Navajo), etc. There are no generic Native Americans. There are more than 500 nations indigenous to this continent, and the Lumbee Nation is one of them.

[MattJist]

@asiam994 she was singing in Lakota sorry!

[z3r0t0l3r4ns]

betamax83 If you buy into the Mormon bit then they were visited by The Christ, however one of the many things Christians have always been good at is either killing or converting (often by threat of death, but not always) the natives of whatever country they were invading that week. So, were the tribes christian before we raped their culture and land, not likely. After we came and forced them to convert I'm sure a great many of them at least pretended to be, and present day many truly are.

[PeterJRaia]

@z3r0t0l3r4ns I would only ask that you consider that those truly Christian in fact and deed AS WELL as word can see the forced "conversions", rape and, yes terrorism in a real sense visited upon the indigenous people of this continent, whom I love & revere, for what it is. At the same time, such evil doesn't take away from the path to redemption and salvation given us by the Lord. The fact that people PRETENDING to my faith forced it on them doesn't takeaway from it's Truth.

[llollOMGlloll]

wow she's beautiful... doesn't mean that the song is not good :)

[jorgeplascencia]

BEAUTIFUL!

[acerb45666555]

Lakota means Allies. which dialect she singin?

[crumblesangelnikzack]

She has a beautiful voice

[betamax83]

Superb voice and an amazing song, but the native americans wern't christians or where they ?

[ghummyglee]

hello, can I kindly ask for the lyrics of the song, HArk the Herald Angel sing, and Silent Night? also the Come all ye faithful? i need it for our Christmas program... :D

thank you...:D

[Alitzew]

I know who I am, I know who God is, and I know a good song when I hear it. This is a beautiful song, sung by an outstanding singer.

[KWEKOSHKUKI12]

kichi manitowa- God, Creator, The Great Spirit

[FischerGabi]

Mariah is great

check this version

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[littlebay75]

nice comment metta we have to learn to live for today, but never forget who we are and where we came from.......

[metta108]

beautiful song...a song and a message that does not 'belong' to any one people, it belongs to all nations...all children of the same Creator.

[kiikiisu]

Thanks to White people we know who God is... You should really give it a try

[assisacpel]

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[mammamia145]

i am an english 12 year old and i clicked o his by coincedent she is truly beautiful and so is her voice and the laguage

[415maxie]

what is up with the comments about god... Native Americans r not Christian... yes some r but that was forced among us by the whites. They made us forget who we really are!!!

[denadean1]

you forget only if YOU let yourself forget.. get off the pitty potty

[415maxie]

singing a whites man's song... they took our land n everything... sing something that comes from the heart not stuff like this... plz

[StrongBearSeeking]

der nids 2 b recociliation between people no matter who did what 2 whom n xmas carols r healing songs regardless of nations,orientations,etc.

[assisacpel]

CCB BR 298

[JohnAppers]

Jana,

May the Lord bless you.

Thank you for the beautiful song.

You are a beautiful Arapaho gtrl, with a unique voice. I also noticed your work with the native youth. Well, certainly the Lord is paying attention to you and your work.

I wish you all the best in your personal life and in your carreer.

Peace of the Lord,

[timm9]

i love it! i'm also 1/2 Cherokee Indian.

[walsinghamf]

Wonderful version! Merry XMas 2 u all!!

[Sumiland]

Absolutely inspired. As a native Chickasaw and a creation of the Devine, I am so deeply touched. Thank you and all God's best to you! :D

[WaldKauzi]

great

[catterpillar82]

so wonderful

[kiikiisu]

Wow... I am so inlove with your voice! It kind of reminds me of someone i know...^_^