Name: Red Ants vs. Black Ants by Bryan Hudson by Newe Hupia
Duration: 1 min 32 s
Description: Earl Crum says this song describes placing red ants and black ants together to watch them fight. This formerly popular Shoshone youth's miniature gladiator past time obviously preceded video games by a few years.

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This is a traditional Shoshone circle dance song that references the way the night stars look. I learned this song from the late Liz Brady of Elko, NV. 

Night Star: A Shoshone Circle Dance Song by Bryan Hudson

This is an old Shoshone Circle Dance song sung in various Shoshone regions and in a variety of dialects and variations. 

How Beautiful Is Our Land by Bryan Hudson

Earl Crum says this song describes placing red ants and black ants together to watch them fight. This formerly popular Shoshone youth's miniature gladiator past time obviously preceded video games by a few years. 

Red Ants vs. Black Ants by Bryan Hudson

High Rock Face

Blue Chalk Medicine

Jackrabbits

Tall Grass

Buck Antelope

White Buffalo Berries

White Water

Shoshone Circle Dance Song
This song was originally a "Puha Hupia" or doctoring song 

Dark Goose Child

Here is a collection in the making of my seriously AWESOME youth from our 2012 Shoshone/Goshute Youth Language Apprenticeship Program 2012 here at the University of Utah.

I have also posted Shoshone Circle Dance Songs that I have learned over the years as well as Shoshone/Paiute and other Handgame (traditional American Indian gambling game songs) 

Enjoy and please let me know what you think!

Red Ants vs. Black Ants by Bryan Hudson

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