Sundance Piercing Song

Prayer and healing song, sung when the dancers are being pierced.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• sundance
• lakota
• sacred song
• inipi
• sweat lodge

[icedogfan1]

I'm curious as to what native language this is.I'm part Oglala Sioux,and am looking for more on my heritage.

[Inipisongs]

@icedogfan1 All the songs on this site are in the Lakota dialect, of which the Oglala is a part of.

[siouxlady71]

This song, was sung at Grandpa Fools Crows Sundance. Been a singer and dancer since I was tree girl. Watching your loved ones dance hard to this song...

Pilamaye. Ta sina luta win.

[Inipisongs]

Thanks for the kind words, and all that you do. It is very hard. I believe tree girls experience something unique, and eternal. I always wonder if they will remember the old-timers who were there when they tell their grandaughters about the experience, many years down the road.

[Inipisongs]

I appreciate the thoughts. John Around Him sang his version of it on his CD, one of my favorites.

[mexchewy]

Absolutely Beautiful! I was a bit concerned but know your heart is pure and intentions honorable.

[TheGrunge619]

Hello, I am from Australia and I know the words to this song. I danced in Joseph Raels sunmoon dance in Maldon victoria Australia in april 2006 and joseph sung this song on one of the days that the dancers danced.He said that this is a song that many will hear when they go into the spirit world. I had forgotten this until I read your words when you sang it to your father. What a powerful way to honour your Father. This song made it across the waters and time to help the dancers remain strong.

[250bsabrian]

Pilamaya mitakuyapi.Wopila tanka.

[bannockNlard]

I loved this song soooooo much when I first heard it, I cried, shortly thereafter I learned this song and when my son was being delivered I sang him this song and named him "PIERCE"....

[bannockNlard]

The very first song I ever learned, touched my heart made me cry, told myself when i first heard it,I want to learn this song, later on in life when my son came into this world I sang this song in the delivery room and I named him "PIERCE"...

[Inipisongs]

@SuperPokemon122 Wakantanka, please pity me, I do this so I will live.

[lmorin10]

My grandmother sings this song in her sweatlodge ceremony, and she learned that song from her mother. Don't know the origins, but it makes me happy to hear other tribes singing the same song my ancestors sang, and in the end, we are all related. Aiy Haiy.

[manysons]

WOPILA!



[Moondragon1088]

I would love to learn Blackfoot as I am 75 percent but my family hid my mother's origins from me