Track 2: Men's Fancy

Track 3: Original Crow Hop

Track 4: New Women's Song - Water Drum

Track 5: Vydel's Crow Hop

Track 6: Two Step Round Dance

Track 7: Jingle Dress Side Step Slide

Track 8: 49er Song

Track 10: Men's Traditional

Track 11: Grandma's Original Song

Track 13: Men's Grass Dance

Track 14: Let's Crow Hop

Track 15: Women's Fancy Dance

Track 1: Flag Song

Track 16: Sun Dance - Honour Song

Track 17: Intertribal Song 2 - Red Sky's Song

Track 18: Straight Double Beat - Farley's Love Song

Track 19: Honour Song - Little Creak Singers

Track 20: 49'er Song - Song by Farley Eaglespeaker

Track 21: Honour song - Little Creek Singers

Track 22: Friendship Round Dance

Track 23: Flag Song - Song at End of Powwow

Traditional Song: Usually synonymous with Intertribal. This type of song is the most commonly heard at a pow wow. It usually is all vocables, but does not have to be. They generally are melodic and vary in style greatly. The drum beat is always of the regular beat. 

Flag Song: To the Dakota people, this is the National Anthem. This song is sung at any such times that one would sing the National Anthem. The Flag song is always sung at the beginning of a pow wow or special event. This song should be given the same respect as your own flag. We do not dance to this song as it is for the flag to dance.

Veteran's Song: This type of song usually follows the Flag song in a pow wow. There are many different Veteran's songs, all of which are sung to honor our veterans. Some are sung to honor a specific branch of service or specific conflict. To the Dakota people, a veteran is a warrior that should always be honored. In this way, those that served this country may dance and be honored.

Sneak Up: This is a scout's dance. It is often sung after the veteran's song in a pow wow. The dance is a story of how a warrior would go ahead of the party to scout out the area for the enemy or game. Four times the song is sung through, starting with a rolling beat while the dancers attempt to sneak up on their target. The song then goes into a fast steady beat that stops instantly. The dancers must stop on the beat or retreat to try again. After the fourth stop of the song, the singers will continue two more times through the song until the end.

Round Dance: This is sometimes also called a two step. These songs are sung with a heavily syncopated beat. These are often considered couple's songs. 

Honor Song: This type of song carries special meanings. Every song is different, but all has a similar purpose. When an individual or group has done something noteworthy, or even has had hard times, they may honored by another. In this case, a special honoring song would be sung for those people, much like a veteran's song is sung to honor veterans.

Sundance Song: These are very sacred songs. The only place that these songs should be sung is in ceremony. Most commonly in the sundance. There are entrance songs, pipe songs, and others. They are usually sung in groups of four, typically seven times through only during the dance.

Inipi Song: These songs are also very sacred. These too, are special songs usually sung just in the sweat lodge. There are pipe filling songs used just for that, filling the pipe, which is always used with the sweat. Inipi songs have special powers that can call the spirits. Because of this power, they must be used carefully by those that understand what they are doing.



Because of the diversity of this music and its purpose, certain songs are meant only to be sung in specific places or ceremonies and not recorded. For this reason,we will post only songs that are appropriate to be sung in public.

Track 24: Yo-hi-yo

Track 26: Women's Jingle Dress

Track 27: Lakota Honor Song

This type of song usually follows the Flag song in a pow wow. There are many different Veteran's songs, all of which are sung to honor our veterans. Some are sung to honor a specific branch of service or specific conflict. To the Dakota people, a veteran is a warrior that should always be honored. In this way, those that served this country may dance and be honored.

Track 28: Veteran's Song

The fancy Shawl dance originated in the southern-central United States. The dance symbolizes the life of a butterfly. A butterfly lives a quiet life before it encloses itself in a cocoon. Once the butterfly is ready to emerge, it breaks free from the cocoon and blooms into a beautiful, fragile creature. The butterfly lives freely. Flying delicately around its habitat, it displays beauty and grace.  Women's Fancy Shawl dancers have beautifully intricate outfits. The dancer will wear a cape which is usually fully beaded. Also, they have matching leggings and moccasins, hairpieces and jewelry. Distinctive to the women's Fancy Shawl dance is the way in which they use their shawl as adornment, delicately draping it over their bodies. It is in the movement of her body while she dances and the lightness of her dance steps that makes the butterfly come to life. A fancy shawl dancer dances to a fast drum beat as do the men's fancy dancers. A dancer shows gracefulness, endurance and agility as she moves in perfect beat with the drum. While she dances, her shawl sways and swirls in perfect harmony with her body; a butterfly flitting ever so delicately about the dance arena.

Track 29: Women's Fancy Shawl

Hoop Dance - Going back for centuries,  the Hoop Dance is a storytelling dance, which incorporates from 1-40 hoops to  create both static and dynamic shapes. These formations represent the movements of various animals and other storytelling elements. In its earliest form, the dance is believed to have been part of a healing ceremony designed to restore balance and harmony in the world. With no beginning or end, the hoop represents the never-ending circle of life. The hoops, typically made of reeds or wood, are used to create symbolic shapes, including butterflies, turtles, eagles, flowers, and snakes.
 
There are several tales of how the dance originated. Some say the Creator gave a series of wooden hoops and the "dance" to a dying man from the Northern Plains who wanted a gift to leave behind. Another story in the Southwest tells that the hoops were developed by cliff-dwellers for children to learn dexterity.
 
A more prominent legend has the Hoop Dance originating in the Anishinaabe culture, when an unearthly spirit was born to live amongst the people. The boy did not show any interest in typical  boys activities such as running and hunting, preferring to be alone and watch animals. This caused his father to shun him and earned him the name Pukawiss: the disowned or unwanted. However, the boy continued to watch the movements of eagles, bears, snakes, and birds and before long was spinning like an eagle in flight, hopping through the grass like a rabbit, and created the Hoop Dance to teach the other Indians about the ways of the animals. Before long, Pukawiss was so popular that every village wanted to learn the dance.
 
Today, the Hoop Dance remains popular. It is generally performed by a solo dancer who begins with a single hoop, evoking the circle of life. Additional hoops are added representing other life elements, including humans, animals, wind, water, and seasons. The dance incorporates very rapid moves in which the hoops are made to interlock and extended from the body forming appendages such as wings and tails. Practiced by a number of tribestoday, it has evolved over the years, becoming faster and incorporating many non-traditional influences. It has also become a highly competitive event, with the first World Hoop Dance Competition held at the New Mexico State Fair in 1991. Today, the most popular competition is held annually at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona

Track 31: Hoop Dance Song

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