Gaag Manidoog
Track #2 Aki Manidoog Album
Gaag, Gaag
Manidoog, Manidoog
(x3)
He will live again...
The Legend Of Geronimo
Track #2 Ancestral Legacy Album
Great healer, great leader
Held his family with love and pride
When he lost them in a raid
A voice spoke from inside
“You cannot die in battle, your aim will always be true”
The spirit blessed him with power with each fight the legend grew
Riding faster than the driven snow
Knocks them down like an undertow
Striking the enemy blow after blow
The Army could not catch the wind
Fight run hide and fight again
No bullet would ever touch him
Obsidian eyes were ablaze with uncompromising belief
Geronimo proved to be a man no other in combat could defeat
Forty years guarding his lands storming through the battle field
Though the forced his surrender the legend would never yield.
Geronimo… your courage brings us great honor
Your medicine was a great power
Your story makes our nation stronger
Our faith in you will never die.
No bullet could ever touch him…
Chiricahua, Chiricahua, Chiricahua 7x
Red Cloud
Track #5 Ancestral Legacy Album
As the arrows began to darken the sky
Warriors raise arms in a war cry
We are a mighty storm thundering loud
Leading the charge is our hero Red Cloud
Set out to defend all the injustice
The lies, the disrespect the broken promises
Fighting to preserve what is left of his peoples land and way of life
North, South, East, and West
Red Cloud was everywhere
Baiting the enemy with decoys like the great warrior Crazy Horse
He lured soldiers into the open for a successful ambush
He stunned his opponents like white rabbits caught in a trap
Red Cloud
Rise up Red Cloud and lead us once more
Straight through the fires of our nations war
Burn down those forts in the name of your band
Erase them from our sacred land
When I look up the sky is always red, illuminates the clouds
Great Chief your power graces us still today
The Red Clouds forever remain.
Ikwe
Track #6 Ancestral Legacy Album
Children of Mother Earth
pray for those with no guardian
That together we may stand vigilant
against those who seek to harm them
We pray for courage our spirits are enraged
because this world has not changed
We pray - let her go (4x)
We pray for the sisters, the mothers,
the daughters, and the wives
We pray for all Ikwe
who have lost their lives
We pray for answers, for truth,
most of all we pray for their safe return
We pray – let her go (8x)
Authorities do not listen
to the families of the victims
The laws are not protecting them
complications with jurisdiction
Tribal Courts cannot prosecute,
criminals let off without conviction,
makes a target of Indigenous women
We pray for the taken to survive what they endure
and rise above the ashes into a bright future
We pray they know they are not alone
and are loved by all
We pray for days filled with joy and light
for that what Mother Earth designed
We pray people come forward
stand up for what is right
And we pray for all Mother’s children to sleep safe each night
Sitting Bull
Track #7 Ancestral Legacy Album
Great Sioux Chief, Powerful/Wise and Strong, Sitting Bull
Holy Man, Unshakeable/Wise and Strong, Sitting Bull
Pound for pound, Immovable/Stood his ground, Sitting Bull
Lived his way, Free and Full/Never Changed, Sitting Bull
He danced all day into the night
A vision came, brought insight
Soldiers falling upside down
From the sky to Sioux ground
Crazy Horse plans to fight
The braves prepare to counter strike,
I said the braves prepare to counter strike!
Sitting Bulls vision came to be at last,
When Custer’s Army charged the Greasy Grass
From the death rattle, Sitting Bull had warned
It was the battle, The Battle Of The Little Bighorn
Great Sioux Chief, Powerful/Wise and Strong, Sitting Bull
One last vision to mark his end/Sitting Bull, a true legend
Chief Joseph (Part II)
Track #8 Ancestral Legacy Album
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce kept his people fed and clothed
He cared for their well being – he put his tribes needs before his own
He did his best to give them hope with each mile behind their tracks
That they’d find a new home far from the white man’s attack
He bravely led them onward with hundreds of miles to go
The weight of those already lost made his footsteps sink down low
And when he was forced to surrender and end his peoples retreat
Tears ran from Chief Joseph’s eyes as he gave his famous speech
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce kept his people fed and clothed
He cared for their well being – he put his tribes needs before his own
From a broken heart is how he died
But he never let go of the love that he held in it for his tribe
And for his ancestral homeland
Though his dreams to return home was never meant to be
It empowered his peoples spirit who honor his legacy
When he was faced against all odds he spoke with a courage undaunted
With words that rumble through our hearts as thunder rolls down the mountain.
The Chief’s Song
Track #9 Ancestral Legacy Album
We are backed into a corner, we have nowhere else to go - nowhere else to run,
They are taking our land, they are taking our food, taking our women, our children, our religion.
Our ways of life that the Creator has given us,
We have NO choice left.
We are….
Going to war
United Tribes Of America
Track #10 Ancestral Legacy Album
Seminole, Arapaho, Potawatomi, Cherokee, Northern Cree, Anishinaabe
Chickasaw, Navaho, Kiowa, Hopi, Mohawk, Sioux, Mohican, Kickapoo, Comanche
United Tribes Of America 4x
We are Indigenous,
Proud and Brave are we,
Together we forever run,
Run strong, wild, and free
United Tribes Of America 8x
Arrowhead
Track #3 The Ghost Dance Album
Arrowhead
Paint the earth red
Arrowhead
One shot and it’s dead
Arrowhead
Paint the earth red
Arrowhead
One shot and you’re dead
Great White Sea
Track #5 The Ghost Dance album
Paradise once was here not quite that long ago,
Indigenous peoples inhabited from Maine to Mexico,
They had love for the land for it was sacred and pure
But their whole world turned upside down
on that day when Columbus had become lost
First they make promises
And they take all our land
The Great White Sea,
Great White Sea,
The Great White Sea,
Is drowning me!
We were once so free
Brave and mighty
Are we.....
A sea of Europeans invading
from east to west,
Swallowing all in its path
His greed would not rest,
To destroy all the Natives
And take over all his land,
We had to fight back the waves
with all that we had,
But nothing could ever stop
This Great White Sea Of
Death and Disease
First they take everything and they give nothing back
The Great White Sea,
Great White Sea,
The Great White Sea
Is drowning me!
Death Valley
Track #8 The Ghost Dance album
I walk
Into the West
Take me there
I walk
Into the desert
Take me there
Kicking up dust and bones
We’re in Death Valley
DEATH VALLEY
Kicking up dust and bones
We’re in Death Valley
We walk
Into the wind
Guide me there
We walk
Into the sunset
Guide me there
Kicking up dust and bones
We’re in Death Valley
DEATH VALLEY
Kicking up dust and bones
We’re in Death Valley
War Horse
Track #11 The Ghost Dance Album