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TETON SIOUX MUSIC 



515 



No. 237. Song of the Ticketless Society (Catalogue No. 678) 



Sung by Twin (Cekpa^) 

 Voice J— 108 

 Drum not recorded 



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Analysis. — This song contains all the tones of the octave, an un- 

 usual feature in a song of minor tonality. It has a range of 10 tones 

 and is melodic in structure. Of the intervals 63 per cent are whole 

 tones. The song is peculiar in that it contains only one tone less 

 than an eighth note in value. 



Rev. John Eastman* of Sisseton, S. Dak., told the story of the 

 following song, saying that the incident occurred when his father was 

 15 or 16 years old, and was still remembered by many old people. 

 The incident was as follows: A party of white men were driving 

 cattle to one of the new settlements in the north. They lost their 

 way and entered on territory along the Red River where the Sioux 

 war parties were in the habit of going. They were seen by the 

 Sioux, who, supposing them to be Cree half-breeds, fired on them, 

 kiUing one or more of the number. These Sioux were under the white 

 man's law, and when they found that they had killed a white man 

 they knew that they were liable to arrest for murder. Accordingly 

 they ''lost themselves" among various bands of Indians. The chiefs 

 tried to locate them, but could find only one man, whose name was 

 Fierce Face (Ite'-hir)yar)'za). In order to demonstrate the good 

 faith of the Sioux toward the white men he traveled many miles 

 without escort of any kind and voluntarily gave himself up to the 

 authorities. He went from camp to camp down the Minnesota River, 

 each camp encouraging him and praising him in the following song. 

 His son, a boy of about 7 years, went with him to the edge of the 



1 Rev. Mr. Eastman's Sioux name is MaHpi'ya-wakajg'-kidai)' (Sacred Cloud Worshiper). See his 

 biography in Handbook of American Indians, pt. 1, pp. 412-413. 



