A very cool performance! I love this kind fo hand drumming, tribal chants & sounds, something different from the usual African djembe I play most. I want one of these drums! :-) Such a great boom for so shallow a drum!
This is almost like our "Sambura" Caraib (Kalinja) native music from Suriname,but we use huge drums.I have a deep respect for this native music.There are differend tribes from all over the americas,north and south,but we are one big family.Much respect from a native Caraib Indian from Suriname.
"Penaro pore Kalinja wopepombo ero Surinjama wa.Amekon ityu taka kenamayan.Amekon tuna ashiwo mandon.Amekon wo'i ta ka kenamayaton"
this song is nice but i wish there were pomo songs. when i hear them i always remember dancing in the round house and the strawberry festival. i swear i can smell the smoke and taste the fry bread
I am sorry for the ignorant people who destroyed cultures that were far more enlightening and earth friendly than the white man, who destroyed, humilitated, butchered their way across a land that DID NOT BELONG TO THEM.
I am sorry for the ignorant people who destroyed cultures that were far more enlightening and earth friendly than the white man, who destroyed, humilitated, butchered their way across a land that DID NOT BELONG TO THEM.
I am a new Zealand Maori, both our peoples' have been through the same white man bull shit. But at least our cultures are still going and that's important.
Your absolutely 100% wright on this.it looks like we all dealing with the same problems,they took over our land that does not belong to them!But they could not kill our traditions and our pride.
many greetings from a native indian from Suriname.
I Amun the Sun Disc, David Sr! Your tribe could have known me as Teom or Ah! Elijia attacked me in Egypt in the 18th Dynasty! Horus is the person who lead to the capture and captivity of your people. I'm back and I greatly miss your peoples celebrations here in the Garden! You can call me Christ, and remember even through celebrations dedicated not to fire but me the Earth,Sun and Moon! Father,Son and Holy Spirit and the Washington monument is dedicated to me! Love Amun People, Save the Earth!
I was born to a Yankee Catholic mother and a Russian Jewish father. Nothing like the sounds of Native Americans affect me on such a deep level. My belly twists and my heart swells and my eyes well up with tears. I chose to identify my way of living with the ancients, those who understood what was important.
beautiful and powerful. i just found out that there are Native American festivals every year and I wonder if they dance around the fire singing songs like this one because I would love to experience that myself.
Please excuse my ignorance, but are these performers actually singing words or are they just vocalizing sounds? I don't mean to be disrespectful but, "way ya aiha ehia hey" sounds like stuff i used to do myself as a child playing indians and cowboys. I'm serious now can someone answer me. I've ment no disrespect, I just can't spell what I'm hearing.
I was told that the sounds we make when we sing are meant to either express or instill (or both) a particular emotion upon others. Sometimes these particular emotions are meant to tell a story in the way they instill them, but a lot of people don't really hear it too much, including myself. I can't really explain any better, except that it's a very important part of me and my lifestyle. Though not all singing is strictly traditional. Sometimes it's just for fun.
i am not sure but i think they are either comanche or cheeroke and they are chanting in their langage,and there is not writting or alphabet in all of the native community,only painting and songs,at the time that the european came they barely know how to use metal,and never bronze casting,their were hunters and gatherers,plz do not ask me how many langage there is because i will not know that try wikipedia for any answer that you need it might help you
They're doing chants. Sometimes these songs are sacred and they only do demonstrations, they may just be singing abridged versions. These ones they are singing, I think they make them that way so everyone can sing. It's easy to follow them, even for me and you. I know that our particular tribal songs do not sound like this one at all. I think ours tend to be faster, and have actual lines too. We have choruses, and there are a certain number of times we repeat lines or choruses.
Some of it is words. Some of it is vocables. Vocables are sacred in Ceremony Song, and there's no 'spelling'. Vocables are spirit language. Our voices sing them and our ancestors and the spirits know them. They create a feeling in the song as well, and the feeling is more important than even the words themselves. I can't make out what words they are singing in this recording, sorry I can't help more with that.
be proud for hwo you are :) i just wish that there was shows like this video in sweden to, but i thank everyone in youtube that share those wounderful videos :)
That is awesome! If it were 1876 and I came over a hill and heard that I would have been inspired to run like hell! Seriously, that is some very very nice music. Keep it up.
this video is great they jam,I am proud Taino my people where the first to encounter columbus,he called us indians because the stupid idiot thought he was in india,if he would of thought that we where the people of god he would not of the the first holocaust,and the first guide book on how to rape and murder and take whatever one desires from indigenous people.shout out to all indigenous nations.TAINO NATION
thats My Uncle Mark Kingbird Sr. the 2nd from right....This was back in the Early 1990's..We were so proud of my Uncle when he Traveled with the Dance Troupe...He originally sings with the Kingbird Singers Out of Ponemah,Mn with his brother Royce and some other family members..
so im native and i have also been taking an american indian studies class. but ne way the term indian comes from what the spainards called the ppl here "una gente in dios" (a people in God) because native ppl were so spiritual. later being shortened into in dios which turned into indians not because they thought the ppl here were ppl from India.
ninjabeav009 Mormons Believe the Lamanites are USA INDIANS look how there BOOK OF MORMON GOD treats the USA INDIANS-->
Book of Mormon ALMA 3:6"And the SKINS of the Lamanites (USA INDIANS) were DARK, according to the MARK which was set upon their fathers, WHICH was a CURSE upon them BECAUSE OF their TRANSGRESSION and their REBELLION..
Book of Mormon ALMA 3:9 "And it came to pass that whosoever did mingle his seed with that of the Lamanites (USA INDIANS) did bring the SAME CURSE upon his seed..
i thought they were called indians because christopher columbus thought he had sailed around the world to india and thought that the people he met were from India hence Indians. Could be one of those myths tho
lol columbus was a scared little thief back home. he was 2 be killed, and made a deal that he could find faster spice trade routes for the queen. he was a slobby asshole.
well than fuk you indians from india we are the first americans bitch so fuk what you think we do what we do because we are proud of our people so fuk you bitch.....
i'm half Cherokee/Aztec and by your comment to whoever your talking to, you make a real Native American throw up. Obviously you haven't been taught to respect everyone, even if they offend you.
oic my badd it jus pisses me off whn people gotta do stuff like dat and talk about us like we go around saying shyt bout them but you ar rigt i should hve more respect.....but us ojibwe dont like dat stuff but my badd again....
You are totally missing the point of where the Anglo term "Indians" came from. The explanation itslef wasn't meant as an insult, even if what happened is a tragedy. The fact is now that we are all here now, and the planet belongs to everyone (except George Bush).
let me tell like it is--if you say that your native american indian and don't have a tribal enrollment number, every thing else doesn't mean a lot of beans. until you have a tribal enrollment number then your native to the bone.
If you told my Principle Chief that you were "Part Cherokee", he would ask you..."What part of you is Cherokee? Your arm? Your Leg?" That is why I say that I am 100% Overhill Cherokee. There is a specific 'Federally Recognized' band that would tell you that the Overhill Indian does not exist. Google it. They not only existed, but we are still here today. I am Head of the Women's Council for the Overhill Nation of Cherokee Descendants.
I mean, that's ridiculous. What's next, Americans don't have the right to say their language is English because we not Britains? Who cares if Asian Indians are offended...which I doubt. Had many friends from India, Sr. Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan...nobody was offended. You just feel you are superior, which you aren't. Ever hear a Native American offended because YOU use the term Indian? Nope, we're raised better than that. Plus, who's squatting anyway?
Okay, let me explain. According to the treaties, the U.S. govt. says we are Indians. That's good nuff for some of us. If you are Indian from Asia, so be it. But in this country, some of our Native American people call themselves Indians and they are right to do so. Besides, we've got 500+ tribal names that are our true identities. We're not talking about Asia, we're talking about in this country, so please understand. We don't have to bow to your understanding.
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I am so sick of this. These people aren't Indians at all. They are Native Americans. I am an Indian, and my people are highly offended of this. Whoever that made this video please use the correct, smart term.
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Trick, this is concerning to me and my fucking people. This isn't whining. I am telling it like it is. These people aren't Indians, and whoever made this video needs to change the title. I am sick of this shit. Besides if I am wining, it is for a good reason and cause.
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Well, that is the incorrect term. That prat mistakenly thought that he was in India. You all did not come from India. Yourpplcame from Asia2theAmericasonTheBering Straight Bridge. People are now starting to call you all Native Americans more instead on Indians or American Indians(you all aren't Indians at all) and it is offensive to my ppl b/c no other continent does that b.s. or no other race gets called a different name but Native Americans when they are called Indians, which they are not.
I love this video. It is a wonderful and beautiful thing to know where your come from, and embrace your heritage. I am an American woman with a multi racial back ground, and I wish I knew more about my family history. It is hard to trace your roots when both your parents are a melting pot of races.
Proud to watch this video, Displeased to hear that you claim "white-man" doesn't understand you, It only shows how little about our history you know, About OUR ancestors.. That once were like you..
I don't have a drop of native blood in me but hearing the stories and watching the dances really makes me wish I was one. My favorite Native to study was Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, he was like the Christian Fox, no one could ever catch him until he was close to his last days and then he died of "a broken heart" I cried when I read that, it makes me ashamed to be a white after reading what happened then. I love being Dutch but I still apologize on behalf of my kind, it's past but still.
thanks myoclann, your words honor me, I don't know how to say thank you in ojibway I'm afraid so I'll say it in english, thank you Niich-ke-weh, at least I can say that right? :) I'm glad that there are good people out there like you.
Listening to my peoples music, gives me mix emotions. Happiness and sadness. Happiness because it reminds me of my younger days, I feel sadness 'cause I'm never going to have days like those again. :(
koigaara, please try to answer a question for me. Let us say white men never set foot in America, what do you think life would be like today for native Americans? I tend to think the red man lived in such beautiful harmony with his land there would've been no need to change. Some say it's naive of me to think there would have been no progress made. I always retort that there is no need for progress if you have obtained perfect harmony. Can you tell me your thoughts on this question?
I couldn't resist. It seems inevitable the physical meeting of whites, if not in 1492 then soon enough.If native wisdom says that the African race was given the gift of spiritual expression, The Native Red race the gift of spiritual vision , the yellow race the gift of building and the white race, the gift of travel.
Surely the whites have been lost and disconnected from ancestors, but slowly waking akwardly from a long slumber.
Without romantisizing history it would have been better than now.
Although I am white, I feel more powerfuly for Native Americans than anything else, beating like a drum in my heart. I have felt a connection with Native Americans since aslong as I can remember. A truly great people
whose song is this and what do you sing it for? i really like this song kenny should know he's blasting hoka hey good singing guys luvin it. whoops and gals.
dats my uncle and one of my teachers singing mark kingbird hoka mon.What are the names of the other singers i know kenny and tiny but the girls and the dancers what are there names?
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The Indians are such con-artists. In Reno they talk about natural monuments around Pyramid lake that are of historical and cultural significance for thousands of years. But all of them were 70 feet underwater until the whiteman built the Dam.
you just disgraced yourself---if it was under 70 feet of water and we knew it was of a sacred nature ....why did the whiteman have to build a dam in order to know this????
do you have native interests in your heart? if so.. then you ARE native... dont let people tell you that being half native is nothing! be strong and stand up to those people.
i have a very big native interest in my heart...but i am far from being a native coz i wasn't born,not even raised there...wish i could be one of you guys...
It's really pretty. I'm partly Native American myself. Ik people say "Oh you dont live on a reservation you dont know how it feels" I dont have to live on a reservation to know how it feels. I have the spirit of a Native and that's what I am. I'm just lucky enough not to have to live on one.
My wife and I just saw a live performance of this tonight in Newport News, VA. It was amazing; very spiritual. This small video clip does not do it justice. I suggest you see them in person. 5***** !!
As a person lives far away from America .. i wasn`t know that there are some people who they are native in America ..!! Media should show the world that there is stell native American in America
Sadly many forget,it's not the blood count, but the spirit, within, I am a Mutt, of many blood lines. Father=Swiss German/Native Ameircan(Miami), Mother=Celtic, Ilse of Man Me=Mutt. As the brightest light, cast the darkest shadow,I am the giver, I am the taker, I am the whole. Many Blessing all, Walk in peace, MAG
Be proud of the fact you have Cree blood in you they are a very Noble people just like the Crow, Cheyenne, Lakota, ect.. I engcourage to do some resreach about the Cree people. That would probaly change your mind set on the matter. Then people just telling you about it.
....i wish i had more natyive american in me to be proud of..im just a irish and scotish and the only native american i have in me is creek nothing noble like braves such as the crow,blackfoot, and apache.
Nothing noble? do you even know any natives? or know what it is it live on a reservation? just be yourself. haveing the blood in you dont mean anything. It's who you are. lol @ braves..c'mon man..
Hello I wanted to say I am truly sorry for what they did and even though I am white in no way do I agree or accept the things that many of the white people had done to natives and other cutlers infact even as far back as I can remember brining s little child I always appreciated and admired everything to do with anything that was native
A very cool performance! I love this kind fo hand drumming, tribal chants & sounds, something different from the usual African djembe I play most. I want one of these drums! :-) Such a great boom for so shallow a drum!
gmj2012 3 months ago
@gmj2012 have you looked at the bodhran (celtic drum) you can get the same tone from a bodhran, especially if it's tuneable.
faey06 1 week ago
I'm Cherokee Indian on my dad's side... I LOVE music like this... really powerful.
HallowsReign23 8 months ago
This is almost like our "Sambura" Caraib (Kalinja) native music from Suriname,but we use huge drums.I have a deep respect for this native music.There are differend tribes from all over the americas,north and south,but we are one big family.Much respect from a native Caraib Indian from Suriname.
"Penaro pore Kalinja wopepombo ero Surinjama wa.Amekon ityu taka kenamayan.Amekon tuna ashiwo mandon.Amekon wo'i ta ka kenamayaton"
Much love and peace to all native tribes.
Surisoccer 10 months ago
When Kenny was skinny! LOL!!
jks!
JubbyzUnkle 1 year ago
You can almost feel you spirit, moving along the tree tops listening to this.........I Love it...
MyTbradley 1 year ago
this song is nice but i wish there were pomo songs. when i hear them i always remember dancing in the round house and the strawberry festival. i swear i can smell the smoke and taste the fry bread
ITSxMExBITCHx 1 year ago
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ITSxMExBITCHx 1 year ago
I am sorry for the ignorant people who destroyed cultures that were far more enlightening and earth friendly than the white man, who destroyed, humilitated, butchered their way across a land that DID NOT BELONG TO THEM.
ethelashdown1882 1 year ago 7
I am sorry for the ignorant people who destroyed cultures that were far more enlightening and earth friendly than the white man, who destroyed, humilitated, butchered their way across a land that DID NOT BELONG TO THEM.
ethelashdown1882 1 year ago 3
beautiful sweets greet from germany
SIOUXNAHIMANA 1 year ago
We have given up so much, and yet the government expects us to give up so much more.
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K5H13760 1 year ago
christopher columbus im gonna buy a plane ticket and fly to your grave just to spit on it
sezjackproductions 1 year ago 5
I am a new Zealand Maori, both our peoples' have been through the same white man bull shit. But at least our cultures are still going and that's important.
GILBERHE 1 year ago 3
@GILBERHE
Your absolutely 100% wright on this.it looks like we all dealing with the same problems,they took over our land that does not belong to them!But they could not kill our traditions and our pride.
many greetings from a native indian from Suriname.
Surisoccer 10 months ago
Love it.. Wish the world was different and all we knew were these cultures.. The world be a better place.
MissLoveAndLight 1 year ago
Thank you for sharing!
Namaste
hawkdreaming1 1 year ago
I Amun the Sun Disc, David Sr! Your tribe could have known me as Teom or Ah! Elijia attacked me in Egypt in the 18th Dynasty! Horus is the person who lead to the capture and captivity of your people. I'm back and I greatly miss your peoples celebrations here in the Garden! You can call me Christ, and remember even through celebrations dedicated not to fire but me the Earth,Sun and Moon! Father,Son and Holy Spirit and the Washington monument is dedicated to me! Love Amun People, Save the Earth!
LuxorVan 2 years ago
AWESOME,,,,VERY AWESOME!!!!!5*
illbowhunter 2 years ago
Aho
kahvi69 2 years ago
i enjoy every minute of this performandce thank you for posting it!
madrina334 2 years ago
Wow,great performance!
Svnoyigohunvhi 2 years ago
esta era la de la tarea??
YINYANGDRAGON5 2 years ago
Osiyo!
bryantuten 2 years ago
I was born to a Yankee Catholic mother and a Russian Jewish father. Nothing like the sounds of Native Americans affect me on such a deep level. My belly twists and my heart swells and my eyes well up with tears. I chose to identify my way of living with the ancients, those who understood what was important.
kittenstoes 2 years ago 47
@kittenstoes same with me.
kstar137 1 year ago
@kittenstoes Past lives my dear. Listen to your spirit, it speaks truth.
FloatingFeatherXo 1 year ago
@kittenstoes It is such a beautiful way to live...you are very wise :)) Tisha
MyTbradley 1 year ago
@kittenstoes same here dude so powerful songs and I was born to Serbian Eastern orthodox parents.
belotinac 1 year ago
@kittenstoes Native Americans aren't ancient. They're still alive and carrying on like everyone else.
spreadtherandomvibe 10 months ago
Se me ensancha el corazon al escuchar esos tambores.Soy de origenes europeos pero no se porque me ocurre esto.Edgardo Surian
jorgue71 2 years ago 2
Tal vez por que dentro tu corazon te sientes unido?
rozemarijnmunt 2 years ago
amazing
GodLight88 2 years ago
beautiful and powerful. i just found out that there are Native American festivals every year and I wonder if they dance around the fire singing songs like this one because I would love to experience that myself.
luvangel1883 2 years ago
Please excuse my ignorance, but are these performers actually singing words or are they just vocalizing sounds? I don't mean to be disrespectful but, "way ya aiha ehia hey" sounds like stuff i used to do myself as a child playing indians and cowboys. I'm serious now can someone answer me. I've ment no disrespect, I just can't spell what I'm hearing.
mannymack 2 years ago
Up here we call the sounds that they sing "Vocables".
Many songs contain sounds like "way a hey yo" .... this way everyone can sing along, there's no language to learn. ;0)
rocknrollparty 2 years ago 3
I was told that the sounds we make when we sing are meant to either express or instill (or both) a particular emotion upon others. Sometimes these particular emotions are meant to tell a story in the way they instill them, but a lot of people don't really hear it too much, including myself. I can't really explain any better, except that it's a very important part of me and my lifestyle. Though not all singing is strictly traditional. Sometimes it's just for fun.
snolan80 2 years ago 2
i am not sure but i think they are either comanche or cheeroke and they are chanting in their langage,and there is not writting or alphabet in all of the native community,only painting and songs,at the time that the european came they barely know how to use metal,and never bronze casting,their were hunters and gatherers,plz do not ask me how many langage there is because i will not know that try wikipedia for any answer that you need it might help you
iwanttoseeeverything 2 years ago 2
no real offense taken, but yes. they are real words. in a different language.
dethpruf89 2 years ago
They're doing chants. Sometimes these songs are sacred and they only do demonstrations, they may just be singing abridged versions. These ones they are singing, I think they make them that way so everyone can sing. It's easy to follow them, even for me and you. I know that our particular tribal songs do not sound like this one at all. I think ours tend to be faster, and have actual lines too. We have choruses, and there are a certain number of times we repeat lines or choruses.
kaoruneko16 2 years ago
Some of it is words. Some of it is vocables. Vocables are sacred in Ceremony Song, and there's no 'spelling'. Vocables are spirit language. Our voices sing them and our ancestors and the spirits know them. They create a feeling in the song as well, and the feeling is more important than even the words themselves. I can't make out what words they are singing in this recording, sorry I can't help more with that.
turtlemama8 2 years ago
be proud for hwo you are :) i just wish that there was shows like this video in sweden to, but i thank everyone in youtube that share those wounderful videos :)
LonleyMother 2 years ago 3
i think i know the girl in the white blanket
woopsme 2 years ago
So beautiful...I have such respect for Natives. F*ckin' Andrew Jackson...
velvetsnape 2 years ago 4
Ditto! Wonderful.
cheries5 2 years ago 2
fuckin...christopher columbus. ^_^
dethpruf89 2 years ago 47
@dethpruf89 Christopher Columbus didn't do anything to this people, it was people after him who went on killing spree
Abasss23 10 months ago
@Abasss23 recognize a joke when you see one, k? k.
dethpruf89 10 months ago
@dethpruf89
You mean the church behind it all, which was back then in quite power? Just thinking how much they still have power over people...
xtreme1000213 9 months ago in playlist celtic and native american music
That is awesome! If it were 1876 and I came over a hill and heard that I would have been inspired to run like hell! Seriously, that is some very very nice music. Keep it up.
ArizonaMiner47 2 years ago
THANKS FOR THE VIDEO !
TECKMASSE
TECKMASSE 2 years ago
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pretty boring. they were all off beat, maybe they need some fire water
junior2817 2 years ago
this video is great they jam,I am proud Taino my people where the first to encounter columbus,he called us indians because the stupid idiot thought he was in india,if he would of thought that we where the people of god he would not of the the first holocaust,and the first guide book on how to rape and murder and take whatever one desires from indigenous people.shout out to all indigenous nations.TAINO NATION
tainomark 2 years ago 4
Peace and blessingz....
MrZEEL33 3 years ago 2
indians, aztecas mayas , toltecas,taraumaras,yakis,cherokees,navajos and more natives have same way on mind
chalco76 3 years ago
Nice! I had opportunity before to sing and dance with natives. I felt deep inside, I was one of them. Just touching, really really so1
Confidenceofyouth 3 years ago
Okay anyway.....OMG I love this video. That's my brother Jr!!! And who is that woman singing?? Holay smacks she can jam too!!!!
skuyawin 3 years ago
yes...pure culture...hail to the choctaw nation!!!
iwishtoknow 3 years ago 2
Lol.
Airforce071 3 years ago
lol
pizzaboytoy 3 years ago
Da 1 N only Kenny Merrick Jr.....Haka!
tsistu 3 years ago
haha haka??
DOITZA!!
thanativeboyy 3 years ago
i recently went to a Pow Wow event. It was so beautiful. If anyone can get in contact with me i would love to know more about this culture. thank you
cwc21 3 years ago 2
is that Kenny merrick jr.??
CynRae 3 years ago
thats My Uncle Mark Kingbird Sr. the 2nd from right....This was back in the Early 1990's..We were so proud of my Uncle when he Traveled with the Dance Troupe...He originally sings with the Kingbird Singers Out of Ponemah,Mn with his brother Royce and some other family members..
miikajoon 3 years ago 2
so im native and i have also been taking an american indian studies class. but ne way the term indian comes from what the spainards called the ppl here "una gente in dios" (a people in God) because native ppl were so spiritual. later being shortened into in dios which turned into indians not because they thought the ppl here were ppl from India.
bripop05 3 years ago
The Called Us In dios Cause The Land In Which We Lived Was So Beautiful And Un-Tainted Surly It belonged Only To A People Of Godd
ninjabeav009 3 years ago 2
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ninjabeav009 Mormons Believe the Lamanites are USA INDIANS look how there BOOK OF MORMON GOD treats the USA INDIANS-->
Book of Mormon ALMA 3:6"And the SKINS of the Lamanites (USA INDIANS) were DARK, according to the MARK which was set upon their fathers, WHICH was a CURSE upon them BECAUSE OF their TRANSGRESSION and their REBELLION..
Book of Mormon ALMA 3:9 "And it came to pass that whosoever did mingle his seed with that of the Lamanites (USA INDIANS) did bring the SAME CURSE upon his seed..
Ilegalplayer 3 years ago
i thought they were called indians because christopher columbus thought he had sailed around the world to india and thought that the people he met were from India hence Indians. Could be one of those myths tho
C2ADruid 3 years ago
lol columbus was a scared little thief back home. he was 2 be killed, and made a deal that he could find faster spice trade routes for the queen. he was a slobby asshole.
ninjabeav009 3 years ago 4
these guys nim-mi-puu?
XcRnnerBoy 3 years ago
i am half native
minnielover600 3 years ago
Blessings to all who play Hand Drums. This is a Beautiful song. Tograyock.
groovemon 3 years ago
well than fuk you indians from india we are the first americans bitch so fuk what you think we do what we do because we are proud of our people so fuk you bitch.....
YKB22nUtInBuTlUv 3 years ago
i'm half Cherokee/Aztec and by your comment to whoever your talking to, you make a real Native American throw up. Obviously you haven't been taught to respect everyone, even if they offend you.
thedeadpoet210 3 years ago
oic my badd it jus pisses me off whn people gotta do stuff like dat and talk about us like we go around saying shyt bout them but you ar rigt i should hve more respect.....but us ojibwe dont like dat stuff but my badd again....
YKB22nUtInBuTlUv 3 years ago
You are totally missing the point of where the Anglo term "Indians" came from. The explanation itslef wasn't meant as an insult, even if what happened is a tragedy. The fact is now that we are all here now, and the planet belongs to everyone (except George Bush).
33flipside 3 years ago
The comment re "missing the point" was not mean for ClaudiaSwann. Youtube moves things around sometimes...
33flipside 3 years ago
MyQueenNai, you speak for yourself. I'm Indian and not offended one bit. Stop embarrassing yourself.
Anyway, awesome video.
HippieHebe 3 years ago
let me tell like it is--if you say that your native american indian and don't have a tribal enrollment number, every thing else doesn't mean a lot of beans. until you have a tribal enrollment number then your native to the bone.
nativetongue56 3 years ago
this video contains some of the best singers around from back in the day.
the famous Mark Kingbird Sr. in his prime
earshawk 3 years ago
If you told my Principle Chief that you were "Part Cherokee", he would ask you..."What part of you is Cherokee? Your arm? Your Leg?" That is why I say that I am 100% Overhill Cherokee. There is a specific 'Federally Recognized' band that would tell you that the Overhill Indian does not exist. Google it. They not only existed, but we are still here today. I am Head of the Women's Council for the Overhill Nation of Cherokee Descendants.
WildPrettyBird 3 years ago
I mean, that's ridiculous. What's next, Americans don't have the right to say their language is English because we not Britains? Who cares if Asian Indians are offended...which I doubt. Had many friends from India, Sr. Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan...nobody was offended. You just feel you are superior, which you aren't. Ever hear a Native American offended because YOU use the term Indian? Nope, we're raised better than that. Plus, who's squatting anyway?
hwiseman 3 years ago
Okay, let me explain. According to the treaties, the U.S. govt. says we are Indians. That's good nuff for some of us. If you are Indian from Asia, so be it. But in this country, some of our Native American people call themselves Indians and they are right to do so. Besides, we've got 500+ tribal names that are our true identities. We're not talking about Asia, we're talking about in this country, so please understand. We don't have to bow to your understanding.
hwiseman 3 years ago
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I am so sick of this. These people aren't Indians at all. They are Native Americans. I am an Indian, and my people are highly offended of this. Whoever that made this video please use the correct, smart term.
MyQueenNai 3 years ago
stop whining
adrenalinerush99 3 years ago
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Trick, this is concerning to me and my fucking people. This isn't whining. I am telling it like it is. These people aren't Indians, and whoever made this video needs to change the title. I am sick of this shit. Besides if I am wining, it is for a good reason and cause.
MyQueenNai 3 years ago
were only called 'indans' coz of some stupid prat couldnt avigate.
landed in america and though to himself.
'this is india. therefore these people are indians'
>_>
PFFt.
ClaudiaSwann 3 years ago
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Well, that is the incorrect term. That prat mistakenly thought that he was in India. You all did not come from India. Yourpplcame from Asia2theAmericasonTheBering Straight Bridge. People are now starting to call you all Native Americans more instead on Indians or American Indians(you all aren't Indians at all) and it is offensive to my ppl b/c no other continent does that b.s. or no other race gets called a different name but Native Americans when they are called Indians, which they are not.
MyQueenNai 3 years ago
Well he could navigate, actually, but just didn't know there was another land.
33flipside 3 years ago
thanx for the correction...
:/
ClaudiaSwann 3 years ago
Ur welcome. However, navigate or not, the rest is tragic history.
33flipside 3 years ago
I love this video. It is a wonderful and beautiful thing to know where your come from, and embrace your heritage. I am an American woman with a multi racial back ground, and I wish I knew more about my family history. It is hard to trace your roots when both your parents are a melting pot of races.
staciladd 3 years ago
Proud to watch this video, Displeased to hear that you claim "white-man" doesn't understand you, It only shows how little about our history you know, About OUR ancestors.. That once were like you..
SvitjodsJarl 3 years ago
..once were like us....AS IF,NOT EVEN-EH^o^
JOKIN!
myoclann 3 years ago
ha..ha..ha, laughed very hard.....
SvitjodsJarl 3 years ago
I don't have a drop of native blood in me but hearing the stories and watching the dances really makes me wish I was one. My favorite Native to study was Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, he was like the Christian Fox, no one could ever catch him until he was close to his last days and then he died of "a broken heart" I cried when I read that, it makes me ashamed to be a white after reading what happened then. I love being Dutch but I still apologize on behalf of my kind, it's past but still.
Jsusfrk20 3 years ago 3
You are way cool, thanks for the kind words, they mean munch, even if only one ndn gets what you are saying. i hear you.
Niishiin, (it is good) Niich-ke-weh (my frnd)-ojibway greetings.First Nation.
myoclann 3 years ago
thanks myoclann, your words honor me, I don't know how to say thank you in ojibway I'm afraid so I'll say it in english, thank you Niich-ke-weh, at least I can say that right? :) I'm glad that there are good people out there like you.
God Bless!
Jsusfrk20 3 years ago
Hoka! KJ!!!!
tsistu 3 years ago
Full Blood Native From minneapolis Minnesota
Yall Day everyday Yeahh
True Native Love
native911 3 years ago
obama's pastor was right i'm sorry for my ancestors
nembhard600rr 3 years ago
i am turkish and i belive that i have the blood of native americans. i hope.
hasan12 3 years ago
It's good to be Turkish. Whether Native blood has mingled with Turkish is not the issue, really. Be proud who YOU are.
hwiseman 3 years ago 5
thats right man i am. thats the best thing i have heard from some one in a while
hasan12 3 years ago 2
be happy with who you are...pride cometh before the fall. no good ever came from being proud of who you are.
bohemillmason13 3 years ago
proudd to be native;)))
P3TiQU4YW4RRi0R 3 years ago 7
proud to be a half native
jassi4010709 3 years ago 4
Proud to see natives! I hope they never die!
xxXDamnationXxx 3 years ago 3
thats ironic but good -xxXdamnationXxx ;)
congoking88 3 years ago
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odestiny 3 years ago
cool
talkken 3 years ago 2
cool
talkken 3 years ago
Watched them when they first came out back in the 80's.. They are the best!
laf2day 3 years ago
I am VERY PROND to be NAtive...
caluze 3 years ago
can any one translate the chants to english please !!!! theresa
theresadent 4 years ago
theresadent: it is hard to translate native american chants because each tribe has their own unique language.
GuySmiley689 3 years ago 2
I'm so Proud 2 be First Nation!!
:)
bazelbear555 4 years ago 3
LOVE this music !!
niclashbg 4 years ago
this is sooo beautiful!!
bigacska 4 years ago
Listening to my peoples music, gives me mix emotions. Happiness and sadness. Happiness because it reminds me of my younger days, I feel sadness 'cause I'm never going to have days like those again. :(
koigaara 4 years ago
koigaara, please try to answer a question for me. Let us say white men never set foot in America, what do you think life would be like today for native Americans? I tend to think the red man lived in such beautiful harmony with his land there would've been no need to change. Some say it's naive of me to think there would have been no progress made. I always retort that there is no need for progress if you have obtained perfect harmony. Can you tell me your thoughts on this question?
logancody07 3 years ago
I couldn't resist. It seems inevitable the physical meeting of whites, if not in 1492 then soon enough.If native wisdom says that the African race was given the gift of spiritual expression, The Native Red race the gift of spiritual vision , the yellow race the gift of building and the white race, the gift of travel.
Surely the whites have been lost and disconnected from ancestors, but slowly waking akwardly from a long slumber.
Without romantisizing history it would have been better than now.
pidza21 3 years ago
And the black race?
JDBW 2 years ago
The Youruba people had a prophecy that they would as well travel accross the water and 'meet the pink child'...(Jesus) perhaps.
pidza21 2 years ago
i am not mongoloid .....i am nehiyak
hawkeye069 4 years ago
I am proud to at least have my great grandmothers cherokee in my blood. It's an awesome thing to be proud of even the little percentage I inherit!
remorocks6748 4 years ago 3
you and the rest of the country...you forgot to say she was an 'indian princess' too
kintosoul 4 years ago
That is a rude thing to say. You should not put people down like that.
blueshadow125 3 years ago 3
just to be clear I was talking about kintosoul and the "you forgot to say she was an indian princess" comment.
blueshadow125 3 years ago
I love my native culture! There's nothing more powerfull in this world to me than being an Indian. Matekuiye Oyasin (All my relation)!
pingreew 4 years ago 2
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You're not Indian, you're mongoloid.
People from India are Indian.
BoomSelekta 4 years ago
Indians are what the white men call us. We refer ourselves as Native Amercians. Does that make you happy?!
pingreew 4 years ago 12
um no there not
GymGirlColorado 3 years ago
Although I am white, I feel more powerfuly for Native Americans than anything else, beating like a drum in my heart. I have felt a connection with Native Americans since aslong as I can remember. A truly great people
panther1457 4 years ago 3
ur native enough for me
roxie883 4 years ago
beautiful music from Arizona,Mesa
thank you for the Native American sounds of peacefulliness.......... (=
howerlisa 4 years ago 4
I love ths spiritual stuff native indians do!
Obbyto 4 years ago
Beu.!Saludos de mi pubelito de Sinton,Tejas . R.G.(Straight Elk).
Tejano44 4 years ago
Just beautiful, Spirit was in prayer.
Nanikike 4 years ago
whose song is this and what do you sing it for? i really like this song kenny should know he's blasting hoka hey good singing guys luvin it. whoops and gals.
YKB22nUtInBuTlUv 4 years ago
dats my uncle and one of my teachers singing mark kingbird hoka mon.What are the names of the other singers i know kenny and tiny but the girls and the dancers what are there names?
YKB22nUtInBuTlUv 4 years ago
The young women singing are Ms W Terbasket from the Lower Similkameen Indian Band/Okanagan Nation and Ms K Owens from North Carolina
GhostFX16 2 years ago
Was the Pyramid under 70 feet of water when Freemont "discovered" Pyramid Lake?
Happy Holidays!
Ahwahneechee 4 years ago
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The Indians are such con-artists. In Reno they talk about natural monuments around Pyramid lake that are of historical and cultural significance for thousands of years. But all of them were 70 feet underwater until the whiteman built the Dam.
IDNeon 4 years ago
you just disgraced yourself---if it was under 70 feet of water and we knew it was of a sacred nature ....why did the whiteman have to build a dam in order to know this????
your reasoning is missing something.....
internity2 4 years ago 2
oh my god, people are so stupid
that was a really cool video.
I am a part native!!
urbestdream 4 years ago 3
do you have native interests in your heart? if so.. then you ARE native... dont let people tell you that being half native is nothing! be strong and stand up to those people.
romeo2040 4 years ago 2
i have a very big native interest in my heart...but i am far from being a native coz i wasn't born,not even raised there...wish i could be one of you guys...
karrantees 4 years ago
its ok inside your native lol
koigaara 4 years ago
It's really pretty. I'm partly Native American myself. Ik people say "Oh you dont live on a reservation you dont know how it feels" I dont have to live on a reservation to know how it feels. I have the spirit of a Native and that's what I am. I'm just lucky enough not to have to live on one.
ash from TashaL
tashaL53 4 years ago 2
i love this song
igmu007 4 years ago
beautiful
warlockboyburns 4 years ago
Hey wow, awesome singing, Mr. Kenny Merrick Jr. is one great singer, absolutely perfecting that lead!
jumpingbuffalo 4 years ago
My wife and I just saw a live performance of this tonight in Newport News, VA. It was amazing; very spiritual. This small video clip does not do it justice. I suggest you see them in person. 5***** !!
The2Woots 4 years ago
As a person lives far away from America .. i wasn`t know that there are some people who they are native in America ..!! Media should show the world that there is stell native American in America
fehawia 4 years ago
Sadly many forget,it's not the blood count, but the spirit, within, I am a Mutt, of many blood lines. Father=Swiss German/Native Ameircan(Miami), Mother=Celtic, Ilse of Man Me=Mutt. As the brightest light, cast the darkest shadow,I am the giver, I am the taker, I am the whole. Many Blessing all, Walk in peace, MAG
MaryMagpie 4 years ago
lol im sorry i meant mexican
lollipop206 4 years ago
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U just disgraced you're country. Have a taco.
tordack 4 years ago
im not from mexico im american you dumbass i said im of mexican decent
lollipop206 4 years ago
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haha, same thing
tordack 4 years ago
awesome im native american,spanish and mexico
lollipop206 4 years ago
awsome
DesJolee 4 years ago
Be proud of the fact you have Cree blood in you they are a very Noble people just like the Crow, Cheyenne, Lakota, ect.. I engcourage to do some resreach about the Cree people. That would probaly change your mind set on the matter. Then people just telling you about it.
wuliechsin 4 years ago 2
....i wish i had more natyive american in me to be proud of..im just a irish and scotish and the only native american i have in me is creek nothing noble like braves such as the crow,blackfoot, and apache.
matrox999 4 years ago 2
Nothing noble? do you even know any natives? or know what it is it live on a reservation? just be yourself. haveing the blood in you dont mean anything. It's who you are. lol @ braves..c'mon man..
gentlemandn 4 years ago
The Creek are an amazing people! ALL our N8tv nations are amazing and full of brave people. ( :
turtlemama8 2 years ago
Excellent singing... would love to make it to Oklahoma. Thanks for sharing :)
SilverMoon49 4 years ago
The Truth about "ThanksGiving"
--horrendous crimes! by white people
Gathering, Sharing, Cordiality, "Thanks for the Aid and survival" are pure fabrication and a Facade to
cover and hide horrendous crimes since The real Thanksgiving Celebration was about a different event.
remove space at "com" and paste the rest at the end:
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week47/index.html
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A Native Person's Thanksgiving Perspective
Speech by Barry White Crow Higgins
Mapanatl 4 years ago
Hello I wanted to say I am truly sorry for what they did and even though I am white in no way do I agree or accept the things that many of the white people had done to natives and other cutlers infact even as far back as I can remember brining s little child I always appreciated and admired everything to do with anything that was native
kiekie84 4 years ago