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TETON SIOUX MUSIC 



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No. 188. Song in Honor of Two Bears (Catalogue No. 454) 

 Sung by Siya'ka 

 Voice J^112 

 Drum J_. 112 

 Drum-rhythm similar to No. 19 



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O --ya - te kiq ta - ku a - ki - ya - pi 



WORDS 



oya^te kig the tribe 



ta'ku aki'yapi c^aq^na whenever they council 



Mato^-noQ^pa Two Bears 



^vi6df\si sni wani^c^'e never refuses 



Analysis. — Like many other melodies on the fourth five-toned, 

 scale, this song has a large proportion of minor thirds, that interval 

 forming more than 55 per cent of the entire number. The major 

 third and the fourth each appears three times. The indicated change 

 of tempo occurs in all three renditions, the metronome speed of each 

 part of the song being accurate. The tempo of the drum remains the 

 same throughout the song. (See song No. 5.) The song has a com- 

 pass of an octave and was sung with good intonation. 



The two songs next following are in honor of Gabriel Renville, 

 chief of the Sisseton Sioux, and were recorded at Sisseton by his son, 

 Moses Renville. The following information concerning him has been 

 published by the South Dakota Historical Society:* 



Gabriel Renville, chief of the Sissetons, was a representative of one of the most 

 noted families of the frontier. . . . The first representative of the Renville family 

 in the Northwest was Joseph Raenville, or Renville, a French Canadian voyageur and 

 fur hunter, who married into the Kaposia, or Little Raven band of the Sioux. The 



1 Robinson, De Lorme W., in South Dakota Historical Collections, vol. 1, p. 126, Aberdeen, S. Dak., 1902. 

 4840°— Bull. 61—18 31 



