Conica Wanica
Conica Wanica --
No Flesh
Lakota 89 years of age living at
Pine Ridge Reservation and a well known associate of Chief Sitting Bull sang
the following. He stated that Sitting Bull sang this soon after the Custer
Lakota as "parade song" and it is still in use to this day whatever
occasion demands.
"Kola taku otehika
Friends things (troubles) most difficult
Imakuwa pe
pursue me
Hena kowakipe sni le waun
of these fearless of i live (survive)"
No Flesh sang the following song. Sitting Bull sang this while he was
en route to Was'_ington, D. C., on Tribal matters pertaining to the cession
of Black Hills Country.
"Kola taku yakapelo
Friends what are you talking about?
Pahasapa kin mitawa yelo
The Black Hills belong to me
Epin na blihe miciye
Saying this I took fresh courage."
- 25 Songs made by Sitting Bull, compiled by Robert High Eagle 1928.
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