 There's a group of men that lived within the mountain front, mostly to the south. And they were men that used to help these people with their animals, ranchers. In the fall time, they gather the animals. And when those people that owned the animals are ready to round up their animals, they call on these men. The men said, why don't we make a society out of this? Since they're always calling on us. And we'll call our society Cowboy Society. They're not necessarily riders out of a rodeo, but it was just men that were around horses and done these kinds of things. And so they called Cowboy Society, Apuchkinas Kuma. And by that, they composed a song to Cowboy Societies. That song still exists with us to society no longer. See, we even lost that round up time. There was a time when our area was no fenced area. It was all open. Today it's all closed. You don't need it. And so this is the song. I really didn't hear too much about the glaciers, but they were referred to by our elders within the areas. They were referred to them as sa kukutte awas. Sa kukutte means like glass, because glaciers where they shine like glass. And they were referred to them in that way. That they were always within that area. They never melt. And that's how I hear them. That's my understanding. That's how I heard our elders talk about our mountain area. And within those areas they were referred to as the glacier areas. It's so that they were there and they were, you know, they were, they were noticeable. You noticed how they remained there all the time. Well, this is their, this was their life within these areas. They used it in every way. They came to hunt. They came to use the, be in a wooded area. They came to fast. They prayed within these areas. And it was very sacred to them. In fact, this one mountain they referred to as the sacred mountain, not to Yisdak, holy mountain, because it was their spiritual. And that's how they, they saw this area. And they, they were for, I, our elders, a lot of times they would say, the whole area, this whole mountain front is sacred, because this is where we get our visions and a lot of dreams. People appear to a spiritual people in many ways. You can hear things by the spirits. And this is how we direct our lives, of the guidance that we get from those spiritual people. I think we're going to have too much within our lands, within our areas. I think we're going to dry up. We're going to find that we're going to be scarce about the water. We're going to find it difficult because water is our sacred. To the Indian people, water is sacred. If they can just have water, they'll go long ways. If that's gone, it makes everything alive. So that's, that's a dangerous thing to lose our water, to lose that moisture that comes through, through these glaciers, through whatever means it does coming from the mountains. And so it's important. Today we already lost that fall, big snow. We lost the spring, big snow. It don't happen anymore. And it was always something that our people looked forward to. My sister received her Indian name from that fall, big snow. It's Chichototak, Snow Woman. And that's how it was recognized. That's how real they were. We are people that even a few years ago back, those people that were still here with us that I interpreted for, they've saw things way back at that time, even at that time that there was some changes taking place within the whole area, not only our area. They're saying there's too many things that's going up into the air. Too many things going up into the sky. That's changing a lot of things. Our way of life, even our way of life. The way we see things. And today it's not that real anymore. Even our climate changed. It's not the same. We know certain times this is what's going to happen. This is what to look forward to. Today we can't do it anymore because it changed so much. It's unpredictable anymore. And they knew that when things start changing, people are going to change. And it's true. A lot of our people don't really know what's really happening. Our young people. And I think this needs to go back to them. They need to know more of what was happening. The worry we're at today. Well, it is telling us to change. It's telling us to find another direction. Find a way that things can connect again. Or we can start seeing some things for the future. For our young people. Because there's too many things that have to happen. And there is a change. And it's not going to come unless we, the people, start doing what we can to bring it back. And it's going to be difficult. Today we have a lot of changes. All kinds of changes. People today, sometimes they're afraid to do things. Something might not work together. So it's important that our young people, our people as a whole, understand it. And it can be done yet if we continue looking on to those spirits, those creators, the gods that our people pray to. And they look. Before I prayed, our people lived with the buffalo. And that was our source of life. Every part of the buffalo was part of us. And our people followed them. There was a time when our people were without the buffalo and they were looking for the buffalo. And a place called Buffalo Lake on the Black Sea Nation. It's towards the eastern part of the reservation. That's where they were during the wintertime. As they were looking for the buffalo, they wanted something to eat. So one of the men that was walking, they heard someone singing. They heard a song. They didn't know where it was from coming from. Anyway, they were looking for who it was. Finally it came upon the buffalo stone. That was the one that was singing the song. And this is a song that buffalo sang. A-ha-ha-yi-ah-yi-ah-i-ah. A-ha-yi-ah-yi-ah-i-i-oh-y-oh. And that buffalo got singing. Between singing, he told the people, you go to certain places and there's the buffalo. they would find that help, the people who had to start. They were warning people. Let us pray. This is the only reason why we are here. This is the only reason why we are here. This is the only reason why we are here. This is the only reason why we are here. Our Creator, we ask that you help protect and direct these people that are trying to protect their source of life. We ask that you will guide them as they go forth in this effort. We ask that you will continue recognizing our way of life. The way of quiet life is important. And so today I ask that you will continue helping these people. Whoever is concerned that you will help them. And that we will bring back life to both of them. And that we do. That it will become greater and the source will be greater. We ask this. People, family members that ask these societies whenever they are going to honor something. And most of us are here. We are not going to forgive. If you like that, that is going to go down on. I am glad that I understand that. Not the land of land. Not the land of land. All of us sing the same thing. At this time, we sing this song. I don't know if it was a society song or if it was owned by any individual. I don't know if it was a society song or if it was owned by any individual. It's of her size. When I step into the brown of her eyes, I find sight of special dreams. Fluttering eyelashes and fluttering hearts. Dancing in magic no one understands. When I step into the brown of her eyes, I find the comfort of a friend. A friend sharing shelter when only a friend can know to. When I step into the brown of her eyes, she teaches loving through caring. Snuggling softly in my heart, helping me to just feel good. When I step into the brown of her eyes, the mysteries are different from confusion. Illusions are handled by seeing through. Clearly there is life ahead. When I step into the brown of her eyes, brown earth color woman takes me into the secrets of her size. Gentlying me in a balance of passion. I is hungry for smiles. You take me where I want to be. You're my heart taker. You're a brand new day, bringing me in view of the sun. I see the sunrise in your laughter. I hear the forever songs in your kiss. I feel the future in your beating heart. I abandon loneliness for your embrace. You're my heart taker. Come to take my heart before it fades away. Lending into my dreams, showing me secrets of life. Holding my hand in the universe, you put together a breaking soul. Smiling into eyes, hungry for smiles. Enchanting today with your magic. Tomorrow can't help but to be good. You brought the world back to me. I think there's going to be a lot of things lost through this. And I think it's going to... Our young people are not going to have the same kinds of things to look forward, the same kinds of things to hope to use because they're not going to be there. And we need to find some other way. How can we encourage them to continue and to try to stay within the best that they can in our way of life, the end in real life? And I think that's going to help them to start to connect things together again. But right now, you know, they don't know what's going to happen in the future. They don't know that much about our past. They're just in between. We need to help them to tell them that there is... You have a generation ahead of you that's going to be some changes. You need to know how to cope. Days were dark, you brought the sunlight nights touching me in your being, tender love and shelter moments. You were fame, you were fortune, you were peace, you were vision. Things I thought I wanted and things I really needed blowing my mind from the beginning. Your kiss melted the night. Our life is good. We have two different kinds of life. We have our traditional way, our end in way of life and then we enter into the life today, modern way.