moosev] SONGS OF THE KIOWA 10*3 



Translation 



1 scream because I am a bird, 

 I scream because I am a bird, 

 I bellow like a buffalo, 

 I bellow like a buffalo. 

 The boy will rise up, 

 The boy will rise up. 



This song was composed l>y Pa-guadal, ''Red Buffalo," at a Ghost 

 dance held on Walnut creek in the summer of 1893, under the direction 

 of the prophet Pa-iiigya (see page 907), for the purpose of resurrecting 

 Red Buffalo's son, who had recently died. Pa-ifigya assured the 

 people that if they held the dance as he directed, the dead boy would 

 rise up alive from the ground before their eyes. In the dance Red 

 Buffalo became " crazy " and composed this song. In his trance he 

 evidently imagined himself a bird. His father was one of the •' buffalo 

 doctors," or surgeons of the, tribe, who are under the special protec- 

 tion of the buffalo and whose war cry is an imitation of the bellowing 

 of a buffalo bull. Red Buffalo claims to have inherited his father's 

 knowledge; bence his assertion that he bellows like a bull. The boy 

 was not resurrected. 



4. Da'ta-i ny\ hoanga'mo 



A'hiiyii' Ehii'eho'! A'hiiyii' Ehii'eho'! 

 E'hiiya' Ehii'eho'! K hiiyii' Ehii'eho'! 

 Da'ta-i nyii'hoanga'mo, 

 Da ta-i nyii'hoanga'mo. 

 Ade tepo'nbii, 

 Ade tepo nbii, 

 A gu&npo'nbii, 

 A guanpo nbii. 



Translation 



A'haya' Eha'eho'.' A iiiiiiii Ehii'eho'! 

 E'hiiya' Eha'eho! E'hiiya' Ehii'eho'! 

 The father shows me the road, 

 The father shows me the road. 

 I went to see my friends, 

 I went to see my friends, 

 I went to see the dances, 

 I went t" see the dances. 



The composer of this song went, in her trance, to the other world, 

 led by the Father, who pointed out the way, and saw there her former 

 friends and joined them in the dance. 



."".. Dak'in a batk VI 



Dak'ifi'a bate yii, 

 Dak'iii'a bate'yti. 

 Guato ton nyiiamo, 



