"Paha Sapa (Drums)" genre: Acoustic
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	Paha Sapa is the name of the Black Hills in The language of the Teton Lakota.
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	Story Behind the Song The Black Hill have been held Sacred by by all of the Native People who have dwelt near them, including the Absoroka (Crow), the Kiowa, the Tsis-Tsis-Tas (Cheyenne) and the Lakota (Sioux). Of course the decendants of the Western Europeans found something "Sacred" there too - Gold! Consequently they unceremoniously broke the Treaty of 1868 and stole the Black Hills without out so much as a "...by your leave." It's an all too familiar pattern in the U.S. Government's dealings with the indigenous inhabitants of this Continent, that continues to this da Lyrics Paha Sapa (c) 1997 by Michael Francis Iott, BMI Like a green cathedral rising From the dusty plains below It's a good place to find lodge poles And where healing waters flow It's sacred ground to the Kiowa, the Lakota and the Crow Paha Sapa Paha Sapa The Wicasa Wakan climbs a mountain At the center of the world And sees the nations in a Sacred Circle gathered down below And a flaming rainbow frames the Six Grandfathers' lodge door And he weeps as he prays for the Nation's Hoop to be restored Paha Sapa Paha Sapa Ah, but lately it's been turned into a stinking white man's hell With monuments to Custer and with Black Hills gold for sale Have a mystic vision with a sacred whore At the Harney Peak Motel Ah, Tunkashila, unce ma la yelo. Mitakuye oyasin.* Paha Sapa Paha Sapa They've carved four sacrilegious heads On a holy peak so tall But it's like carving the face of Tiberius Caesar On the Wailing Wall And I pray I'll live to see the day those four stone faces fall And Paha Sapa be restored as a blessing to us all Paha Sapa Paha Sapa Paha Sapa Paha Sapa *Grandfather, have mercy (on us). We are all related.

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