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THE GHOST-DANCE RELIGION 



[ETH. ANN. 14 



H-h- f** 





ia-\ o' n;i', Na'liii yc na' 



t—i-0 — <— i— ^= — 



* - * 



•— »— •-« — »- 



He' • e' - ye' ! I' 



a 



ua ko' - i : i ' , 



II. 



ye 



na ko' - i&', 



e' - ye' ! 



E'yehe ! Nii nis;i na, 



E'yehe' ! Nii'nisa'na. 



Wi'tQ' Ha'sini' di'witi'a'a'. 



Wi i ii Ha sini di witi a'a' 



Ki \v:it ha'-ime' — He'e'ye'! 



Ki'wnt ha'-ime' — He'e'ye' ! 



Na hayo' na', 



Na'hayo' na'aTi' ko'ia' — He'e'ye'! 



I'na ko'ia' — He'e'ye'! 



I'na ko'ia — He'e'ye'! 



Translation 



E'yehe' .' Na'nisa'na, 



E'yehe? .' X<i ni"<i na. 



Come on, Caddo, wo are all going up, 



Come on, Caddo, we are all going up 



To the great village — He'e'ye'.' 



To the great village — He'e'ye'.' 



With our father above, 



With our father above where he dwells on high 



When- our mother dwells — He'e'ye ' 



Where our mother dwells — He'e'i/e .' 



- Ih t ye ' 



The sentiment and swinging tunc of this spirited song make it one of 

 the favorites. It encourages the dancers in the hope of a speedy re- 

 union of the whole Caddo nation, living and dead, in the "great village" 

 of their father above, and needs no further explanation. 



CADDO GLOSSARY 



.iii — father. 



.In Kaki'mbawiul — "the prayer of all 1" 

 the Father; *' from an. the Father, i. e., 

 God, and tslmba dikit, 1 pray; the Ghost 

 dance, also called Na'nisa'na Gao'shdn, 

 \.i uisa ua dance. 



A nana — for Nand . 

 I nanasa'na — for Xana'sana. 



Ba hakosin — " striped arrows, " from bah, 

 arrow; the Caddo name for the Chey 

 enne. They sometimes call them sin - 

 niibo, from their Comanche name. 



Cha 7, ii Hi nu — "the place of crying ;" the 

 traditional first settlement of the Caddo 

 tribes, where they came upon! of the 



ground, at the mouth of Red river, on 



the south hank, in Louisiana. 

 Detse-ka'ydd — "dog eaters;" the Caddo 



name for the Arapaho. 

 Di'wabon — we see him; tsibo'nd, 1 see 



him. 

 I>i wlti'd — we are all going up, we shall 



all ascend; Isiiliii', I ascend. 

 Do'hya — now, at once. 

 /,' i/nlir i/ii .' — an unmeaning exclamation 



used in the songs, 

 E'yehe'! — ibid. 

 Ganio'sit — he (she) is painted; atslno'slt, 



I painl myself. 

 Gao'shdn — a dance; ga'tsioshdn, 1 dance. 



