Now That The Buffalo'S Gone

[Ilasw6jt]

I have a recording of a concert version of this song in which the verse goes:

"Has a change come about, Uncle Sam?

Or are you still taking our land?

'A treaty forever' George Washington signed/He did, dear lady, he did, dear man.

But the treaty's being broken by Kinzua Dam.

And what will you do for these ones."

(Kinzua Dam flooded Chief Cornplanter's lands in the Allegheny Valley "given" to him by a grateful Washington for his help against the British during the War of Independence.)

[orvgg]

I have never been particularly proud of my heritage. We were mostly wiped and there's no wanting to go back to the ways of our ancestors by most of us. I know that much.

[otherworldtrader1]

IN 50 YRS OR LESS THE WORLD WILL START GOING TOWARDS A GLOBAL COUNTRY OR GOVT. NO CHOICE.THE RACES WILL BE SO MIXED THA TTHERE WILL BE NO NEED FOR NATIONALITIES OR RACE

[otherworldtrader1]

IF PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE WHO ARE OF ASIAN/WHITE HERITAGE(AS ARE AMERICAN INDIANS) THAN BEING MIXED WHITE I AM ENTITLED TO REAL ESTATE IN GERMANY, ENGLAN AND ALL OF EUROPE, NOT TO MENTION INDIA, CHINA, AND ALL OF ASIA. GET REAL PEOPLE JUS TBECAUSE U LIVE ION AMERICAN DOESN'T MEAN YUO ARE ENTITLED TO LAND YOUR ANCESSORS OBTAINED BY FORCE FORM SOMEONE ELSE 100S TO 1000S OF YRS AGO

[otherworldtrader1]

I ALWAYS LIKED HER.AND OTHER NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC; i AM WHITE AND WHITES HAVE AS MUCH CLAIM TO AMERICA AS ASIANS. NATIVE AMERICAN. MY GRANDMOTHER WAS PART INDIAN SUPOSELY BUT IN AS MUCH AS THERE WAS WHITES HERE BEFORE ASIANS IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER THE RACE.  THERE ARE NO INDIANS HERE WHO WERE LIVING HERE BEFORE COLUMBUS OPENED THE COUNTRY TO THE REST OF THE WORLD, JUST THERE ARE NO SLAVES HERE NOW.

[MyHealingSoul]

Natives should not worry, you’ll will get your land and honor back. How many whites can sleep? Very few, because they know their time on native land is coming to an end.

[loserswin783]

thx rebel, this is another beautiful and poignant song of the lady from qu'apelle valley, saskatchewan (by coincidence, i was born and still live in germany).

[SensaiMan]

Great music, what happened to the treaty? They could not keep their word again!

Thanks for the enjoyment.

[josieday]

This song ALWAYS makes me cry, at the very end. Lovely.

[SensaiMan]

@josieday

It makes you cry, because you have a kind heart, and care for people.

I can tell all of this by your response to the song.

Nothing, to be ashamed about! We all should take time to cry form time to time.

Bless you.

[queendamaris]

BEAUTIFULLY POIGNANT

[TutSichNix]

ohhh , ... i forget to come to this song for the last 3 month , .... because i buy a cd of buffy and hear the song on the big sound system since i own it.

but tonight i was here again and watch your emotional video again . like it as the first time best regards

[cwilson284]

As good as this version is of the song, the best, and angriest, occurs on her album "I'm Gonna be a Country Girl Again," which is available on iTunes. It's orchestrated, and her vocal builds to a level of anger she doesn't really convey in this version. It also displays her vibrato at its most exaggerated level (which I happen to like).

[FreedomforHaiti]

Thanks, I'll look for it. I favor her version of "My country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying" as she performed it on Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest because it, too, is more emotional--and on You Tube you can watch her face as she sings. Yet, I appreciate the studio-recorded version, too, because it brings back memories from my early childhood. That song was played in my family's house.

[ErnstBecker]

Where's Buffy? I haven't heard anything from her in years?

[ewatts3]

She's playing London end of January, and is releasing a new album

[ErnstBecker]

Oustanding !

[begonias67]

id forgotten how wonderful buffy is

[notcomatose]

Very moving and telling the experience of Native Americans. The gvmt.still tries to take resources off the land of the Native Americans and try to wear down the soul of the Natives through litigation when it is the right of the Nations to refuse. Article in the Atlantic Magazine few years ago that said the tribes in this country were very organized and advanced that is not much publicized. It said most people would rather have lived here than in Europe because of advanced civilization here.

[ssalkanovic]

beautifull

[NanikayaTohbi]

I liked the World War footage and pics. Please all remember that the Choctaw were the first Code Talkers from Warld War I.

[decadentdavid]

Buffy's the lady! Awesome singer nad writer of such beautiful and meaningful songs. The words hit you to the bone. Haven't seen her in concert since 1973. Thank God she is back in London in July. Can't wait.

[hmngbrd]

Very good.

[nickelsmine000]

Beautiful Song!!!!

The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword!!!!

Great Composition of Pics!!!!

Thank You!

[TutSichNix]

i hear that song first time in the age of 12 or 13 yaers old. our english teacher, he was an american, let us hear it in school.

i must fight against my tears when we hear it in lesson. because i want to be a man. now i can cry if i want, i´m a man and alone, and i do it all the  time when i hear this great and sad song, ... it´s a fantastic video, thx, ... very good work and thx mr.dame our old teacher, without him i never searched for this song

[dogsleddn]

me too..so shed a tear and be proud of her words and know it's the truth. I'm proud to be native and proud to play this song.

[Natash3]

Thank you

[65Reasons]

.... excellent music-video! 5*****

65R:)

[burtondylan100fan]

MY GOD, SO BEAUTIFUL! I'm white and mexican, but I have an enormous respect for these heroic people! Thanks for posting. "Never surrender." Never stop making this beautiful vids! Thnks! Watch my channel and my vids if you have a chance!!

[utopico82]

Great song!!

[sandyFL100]

Thank You~~your choice of pictures and/or photos to express the words~powerful

Respectfully,

[terrycharles1979]

This song makes me cry every time. I'd love to do a cover of it, but think it would sound wrong coming from a white English girl. Maybe best leave it to the maestro. Thank you for the music, Buffy.

[JanetKaye]

These songs are from the heart. You can feel them in the heart even more than you can hear them. Powerful you can feel the emotion. Thanks

[fourtyblinks]

Extraterrestrial hispanics? wtf?

[rainbowchaser11]

A powerful and emotive song. You cannot fail to be moved. Thank you.

[pjm290]

This is the song that 'turned me on' to BSM in the mid 60's. Now nearly 60 I am so glad I appreciated her then, others mocked my appreciation. I must find a CD with this on it.

PJM

[Rob187ok]

"Coincidence and likely stories" (on Chrysalis label) hasn't got this song on but it's a truely great CD.

[Sylvi3D]

It's on Up Where We Belong...although I'm sure it's elsewhere as well

[Aratheman]

Same thing with me, exactly, how I was mocked back then, but I could feel her voice go into my bones. It was not this song, and it was not the lyrics, just her voice. Only afterwards I learned she's Native American, and activist. She is so beautiful, I'm glad I could hear her.

[ega95jch]

Really like 'feel her voice go into my bones'. I agree totally - well said.

[matrixoverkill]

Powerful to say the least.Thank you for the message.

[magiedumoment]

gros bisous à tous les améridiens, reine

[40thegardener]

Hello from uk, yet another master piece and thank you rebel. Bill

[tps607]

Very nice! good edit and soundtrack!

[kordian1977]

That's graet video!!! Thank you