DKN.s.MouKl • TETOy SIOUX MUSIC 415 



WORI>S 



toka^Ia koi) the fox 



iniye^ yelo^ I am 



ta^ku sometliing 



ote^liika difficult 



owa'Ie yelo' I seek 



Analysis. —This is a particularly interesting melody. It contains 

 only the tones A, B, C, and E, these being the tonic triad and second 

 in the key of A ininor, and the song is analyzed as behig in that key. 

 The melody is framed on the interval of a fourth, almost half the 

 entire number of intervals being fourths. The major third occurs 

 four times, but the minor third does not appear; there are, however, 

 four minor seconds, or semitone progressions. In structure the song 

 would be harmonic except for the accented B near the close; it is 

 therefore classified as melodic with harmonic framework. Songs 

 containing only one accented nonharmonic tone ate frequently noted 

 in both Chippewa and Sioux music. At the opening of the song 

 there is a repeated phrase, which is not considered a rhytlmiic unit 

 because it has seemingly no influence on the rhytlmi of the song as a 

 whole. Its repetition on the same tone suggests that it may be 

 simply an introductory phrase. The final tone is immediately pre- 

 ceded by a tone a major third lower, this close bemg somewhat unusual 

 in the songs under analysis. 



The account of his exploit was resumed by Old Buffalo as follows : 



The Crows took the saddles from their horses and charged back at us, but our fire was 

 more than they could stand, and they finally retreated, leaving their saddles on the 

 ground. We captured these saddles and took them back to the place where we were 

 first overtaken by the Crows. There we found only four horses alive. We put one 

 of the captured saddles on a horse and lifted the wounded boy to the horse's 

 back. I held the reins and walked beside the horse all that night. When daylight 

 came we rested. The boy had no pillow, so I lay down and he laid liis head on my 

 body. There was timber near the place, and the next day we made a travois for the 

 boy, and I rode the horse that dragged it. That night we traveled on, and about 

 midnight we reached a certain place and made a camp. We had occasionally killed 

 a buffalo for food, and as the men on foot had worn out their moccasins, we took fresh 

 buffalo hide and tied it on their feet. The three horses ran away, but we caught 

 them. 



All the following night we traveled, and the next day we were at the fork of the 

 Missouri River, where we stayed two nights. 



\Miile we were on the warpath our friends had finished their buffalo hunt and 

 returned to Canada. I kept four men with me and the sick boy, and sent the others 

 home to make a report of the expedition. We kept the horses with us and followed 

 slowly. The boy was tliirsty, and as there was no cup I took the hide of a buffalo 

 head, put snow in it and then put a hot stone in the snow. Thus the boy had hot 

 water to drink. He wanted soup, so I took the buffalo tripe and boiled meat in 

 it. So the boy had soup. (See p. 399.) 



