DENS MORE— TETON SIOUX MUSIC 



WORDS 



arj'pao wag a dawn 



hina'pelo appears 



wanyan'ka yo behold it 



These illustrate only a small portion of the dreams of the Teton 

 Sioux, to which should be added the dreams of the many tribes of 

 Indians which once called our country their own. In these dreams 

 and their songs we trace a desire for communication with the super- 

 natural which may be considered the beginning of religious thought. 

 With the passing of the Indian there will vanish from the earth a race 

 to which every phase of human life had a religious aspect and to which 

 all nature was the manifestation of deity. And with the Indian will 

 forever pass away the song which came from the supernatural, the 

 song on which, as on a rainbow bridge, mysterious spirits came to man 

 that they might share with him the tremendous power of the unseen 

 universe. 



Bureau of American Ethnology 

 Washington, D.C. 



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