🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

[ny_m_teacher]

Day 14: A song from the country you live in (with bonus for indigenous artist)
Robbie Robertson, a legendary guitarist and songwriter of Mohawk and Cayuga descent.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 14: A song from the country you live in (with bonus for indigenous artist)

Murder is the third leading cause of death of Native women.

Native American women are among the most vulnerable demographics in North America. In the US, they experience more than twice the rate of violent crime that non-Native women experience, and in some places more than ten times the rate of violence. One in three Indigenous women are sexually assaulted during her life, and 67% of these assaults are perpetrated by non-Native perpetrators, per government statistics. Over 71% of the Native population live off the reservation system. Because of that, combined with the transient nature of much of Native life in the US, and issues involving institutional racism --specifically racial miscalculation (misreporting Native victims as white)-- many of the missing are not listed as such by the US government. Native women disappear at an alarming rate, and all too often they are victims of violence or trafficking. Sometimes the body is found, most often it is not.

A few years ago, The Urban Indian Health Institute, did a study of disappearances in 71 cities across 29 states. UIHI identified 506 unique cases of missing and murdered American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls across the 71 selected cities that year—128 (25%) were missing persons cases, 280 (56%) were murder cases, and 98 (19%) had an unknown status. (The US statistics had the number at 116). Native Americans make up less than 2% of the US population, with just over half being women. To call it an epidemic is too far soft a designation.

I have a cousin who disappeared one day, about 20 years ago. One day she was there, then the next gone, most of her things still in her apartment. When I last spoke to that side of the family, about ten years ago, there was no change. They still set a spot for her at the potlatch, but there is no hope, only tears and singing.

This song was written by Antone R. George, a citizen of the Lummi Nation in western Washington, to bring more needed attention to the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) Movement. It is both a memorial and a prayer. The video features the West Shore Canoe Family of the Lummi. The red hands are painted across the women's mouths are a symbol of silenced voices -- both the dead and lack of interest given to the victimized.

"The Song Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women"

 

[aussiegeekygal]

Day 14: A song from the country you live in (with bonus for indigenous artist)

I love this prompt

I stumbled across Bobby Sanchez a little while ago and have followed her with a deep curiosity. I can't explain it; this person captivates me. She's beautiful and complex and generous. I've learnt so much about two spirit individuals.

Quechua 101 Land Back Please - Bobby Sanchez

 

[37_ttej]

Day 14: A song from the country you live in (with bonus for indigenous artist)

Born blind, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu was a man of incredible heart and soul which found expression in his music and voice. A self-taught multi-instrumentalist, he was one of the most influential Australian indigenous artists of his generation.

This song is about the scrub fowl, djilawurr, which are considered family and relatives to his people the Gumatj Nation.

An English translation of the lyrics of this haunting song is:

Two scrub fowl crying out, looking for Guwalilna​

the calls like woman crying, looking for Murrurnawu​

the cries returning his mind to the jungles at Mutlwutjna​

Oh place Guwalilna, Warradika, Yumayna.​

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Oh the old man cries, from the drink​

Oh dad Kamba-Djunadjuna, home Mayan-naraka bright in his mind​

Oh my two mums, beloved mums, hold Ruypu Milinditj​

Oh my two mums, beloved mums, cry for the sacred spring Burarrapu​

Oh the place Guwalilna, Warradika, Yumayna.​

Wiyathul - Gurrumul

 

[vagrantx]

Day 14: A song from the country you live in (with bonus for indigenous artist)

I'm going to cheat the law a tiny bit here Legally, Eivör hails from the Färö islands (off the coast of Norway) which would make her Danish (yeah... don't ask), but she is Sámi, indigenous people of Färöarna, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and westernmost Russia. They recognize no borders, speak a proto-uralic language distantly related to estonian and finnish, and are the only recognized indigenous people in the EU.

Their history is debated, but can be traced back several thousand years BC. The fact that they survived the forced assimilation that has been going on for almost 400 years and didn't end until 1977 is, for lack of a better word, insane.

The drum Eivör is playing is erroneously known as a trolldrum (troll is a monster, but also a nordic word for magic; the etymology is fascinating), an epithet given by christian priests, but the more correct name would be far-seers drum or ceremonial drum. They are heirlooms (some are very, very old) and used while communing with the spirits of their forebears and nature as they perform joik, their own style of music

Eivör plays a modernized style of joik, and she mixes in Sámi, Swedish, Norwegian, Färöiska, et ceteta.
She speaks them all. It's incredible.

Eivör - Tródlabundín (Spellbound)

 

[lingus60]

Day 14: A song from the country you live in (with bonus for indigenous artist)

David Gilmour: Coming back to life
Master songwriter, guitarist and so very, very English!

 

[orangecurious]

Day 14: A song from the country you live in (with bonus for indigenous artist)

Grand Drive - Tell It Like It Is
Saw this band's name and laughed as it was a road near where i lived... turned out, they lived near the road too. Even without that, i would have fallen in love with their music. This video was shot, if i am not mistaken, at the legendary 12 Bar Club in London

 

[summer_reine]

Day 14: A song by an indigenous musician from your country Canada
Child of the government - Jayli Wolf
There's a phone message in the song, her father. He was taken from his family in the 'Sixties Scoop'

I hope changing the wording of the prompt on my post was okay

 

[baise]

Day 14: A song by an indigenous musician from your country

Archie Roach was part of what’s called the Stolen Generation, children who, from the early 20th century till about 1967, were forcibly taken from their parents, placed in mission schools to have their aboriginal culture stamped out and replaced with the white man’s ways, and given the ‘benefits’ of the white man’s civilization. This song by Archie Roach from 1990 helped make Australians aware of the psychological and emotional pain, suffering and loss that this policy caused to the aboriginal people.

 

[Wonderer67]

Day 14: A song from the country you live in (with bonus for indigenous artist)

I'm going to cheat the law a tiny bit here Legally, Eivör hails from the Färö islands (off the coast of Norway) which would make her Danish (yeah... don't ask), but she is Sámi, indigenous people of Färöarna, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and westernmost Russia. They recognize no borders, speak a proto-uralic language distantly related to estonian and finnish, and are the only recognized indigenous people in the EU.

Their history is debated, but can be traced back several thousand years BC. The fact that they survived the forced assimilation that has been going on for almost 400 years and didn't end until 1977 is, for lack of a better word, insane.

The drum Eivör is playing is erroneously known as a trolldrum (troll is a monster, but also a nordic word for magic; the etymology is fascinating), an epithet given by christian priests, but the more correct name would be far-seers drum or ceremonial drum. They are heirlooms (some are very, very old) and used while communing with the spirits of their forebears and nature as they perform joik, their own style of music

Eivör plays a modernized style of joik, and she mixes in Sámi, Swedish, Norwegian, Färöiska, et ceteta.
She speaks them all. It's incredible.

Eivör - Tródlabundín (Spellbound)

Wow! That is amazing. I love it.

For about 11 seconds, I started down the path of a PhD studying ancient and medieval Eurasian history. I didn’t get very far and life intervened.

but when I hear “proto Uralic” that means cool things to me. Thanks for the backstory to that one.

And cool song too.

 

[Wonderer67]

Day 14: A song by an indigenous musician from your country

From their website:

1876 was formed in early 2020 and immediately debuted the EP “Pow Wow Punk Rock.”

With notable sounds that any pow wow goer will recognize, combined with the aggressive guitar playing, catchy melodies, and political lyrics of the punk world, 1876 expresses their unique perspective as “the city ndns your aunty warned you about.”

1876 proudly represents both the Northern Cheyenne and the Blackfeet nations, singing in both languages. From sweat lodges to punk clubs, 1876 helps shed light on a narrative often neglected by the music industry.

1876 was born in 2020 out of a dream of cultural and language resurgence being seen and produced by those who experience the hardships and triumphs of being born NDN.

++ We Don’t Run ++
Copyright 1876Band
2024

 

[__Nathan1968]

Day 14: A song from the country you live in (with bonus for indigenous artist)

Kelly Jackson is a member of the Lac du Flambeau band of the Chippewa Nation.

 

[BreukelenAnima]

Day 14: A song from the country you live in (with bonus for indigenous artist)

Considered a one-hit wonder band (they're not), Redbone was comprised of two Native Americans and two Mexican Americans... going with a song of theirs that was banned from many radio stations when released in 1973.

 

[vagrantx]

Wow! That is amazing. I love it.

For about 11 seconds, I started down the path of a PhD studying ancient and medieval Eurasian history. I didn’t get very far and life intervened.

but when I hear “proto Uralic” that means cool things to me. Thanks for the backstory to that one.

Awe, that's too bad! It's an incredibly interesting field. After I moved here I completely immersed myself in Swedish history and folklore; I love it so, so much. Never officially studied it, just, picked up things and doodads along the way

And cool song too.

Right?? I've no idea how she does those growling vocalizations! Like mongolian throat singing, it's a technique that's a complete mystery to me!

 

[Cjbdd]

Day 14: A song from the country you live in (with bonus for indigenous artist)- Beck- Scarecrow

 

[hotoldrguy]

Day 14: A song from the country you live in (with bonus for indigenous artist)

Suffer The Little Children Buffy Sainte-Marie Bonus​

 

[Wonderer67]

Day 14: A song from the country you live in (with bonus for indigenous artist)

Considered a one-hit wonder band (they're not), Redbone was comprised of two Native Americans and two Mexican Americans... going with a song of theirs that was banned from many radio stations when released in 1973.

GREAT song!!

 

[orangecurious]

Awe, that's too bad! It's an incredibly interesting field. After I moved here I completely immersed myself in Swedish history and folklore; I love it so, so much. Never officially studied it, just, picked up things and doodads along the way


Right?? I've no idea how she does those growling vocalizations! Like mongolian throat singing, it's a technique that's a complete mystery to me!

i found out, in Sweden, that there is Northern Sami (typically the Norwegian/Finnmark/Finland Sami) and Southern Sami (Central Sweden/Norway). I fund this out by saying the one word of Sami i know and it was wrong! I went into a Sami museum and was told photos were allowed, except for the display of Sami drums. They are considered sacred and some of the "witches" burned in Vardo were convicted as they had a Sami drum.

I have seen some great videos from the Sami Easter Festival in Kautokino where they Joik to dance beats.

There is a netflix film "Stolen" that was directed by a Sami woman and deals with some of the issues.

 

[vagrantx]

i found out, in Sweden, that there is Northern Sami (typically the Norwegian/Finnmark/Finland Sami) and Southern Sami (Central Sweden/Norway). I fund this out by saying the one word of Sami i know and it was wrong!

There are many many dialects of sámi language, I think there's a doz- (hang on, googling) nine, there are nine different dialects of sámi, but they're all mutually intelligible! As in they can speak to each other and get their meaning across, but nuances are lost. Sort of like swedish/danish/norwegian.

I went into a Sami museum and was told photos were allowed, except for the display of Sami drums. They are considered sacred and some of the "witches" burned in Vardo were convicted as they had a Sami drum.

Thank you for bringing this up - I had to cut myself short or I'd drone on until I reached the character limit I touched briefly on it (trolldrum, magic, monsters), but this is absolutely true - magic was folklore and banned as heresy by the church, and the drums were seen as able to channel heretical powers.

There are also places of worship called siedi, usually rock formations and structures, hidden around the north. They used to be known to non-sámi people, but so many were destroyed and defaced that they're now only passed on by word-of-mouth between sámer to preserve the few that are left.

I have seen some great videos from the Sami Easter Festival in Kautokino where they Joik to dance beats.

There is a netflix film "Stolen" that was directed by a Sami woman and deals with some of the issues.

I'd love to go to a festival like that! I went to Stockholms Kulturfestival a while back and there was a sámi woman performing joik and speaking a bit about history between songs, it was such a joy to see how large a crowd she drew!!

I've not seen the film yet, but I've heard good things about it. On my list!

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 14: A song from the country you live in (with bonus for indigenous artist)
Louis W. Ballard was a 20th-century classical composer known as "the father of Native American composition."
An excerpt from "Katcina Dances" - Louis W. Ballard

 

[bonnietaylor200a]

"I once got busy in a burger king bathroom!"

wow That's class!!

 

[TXRafe]

wow That's class!!

you know that it's a lyric in the song right? can't tell if you're joking or being rude.

 

[Bry1313]

Day 14 - A song from country where you live (bonus for indigenous)
Bringing more Buffy St Marie

 

[curious_slut]

Day 14: A song from the country you live in (with bonus for indigenous artist)

Today's prompt is excellent. I was so happy when I saw it. The songs have been so, so beautiful.

Martha Redbone is of Eastern Cherokee, Shawnee, Choctaw, and Black ancestry. Her version of Drums is the best imo. It's so powerful and simply gorgeous.

Martha Redbone - Drums

 

[bonnietaylor200a]

you know that it's a lyric in the song right? can't tell if you're joking or being rude.

Come on, you know what I meant