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Thread #26618   Message #321133
Posted By: Haruo
17-Oct-00 - 04:38 PM
Thread Name: Buffy Sainte-Marie song in Cree
Subject: Buffy Sainte-Marie song in Cree
At least 20 years ago I attended a Buffy Sainte-Marie concert at the Paramount in Seattle, in which she sang a song I had not heard before that was at least partly in her ancestral Cree tongue. I know very little Cree, but I do recall it contained the words "napesis" and "iskwesis" (boy and girl, respectively). I don't recall if it was all in Cree and those were just the only words I caught, or if the bulk of it was in English or maybe French (or conceivably even Mitchif). Does anybody know this song? I also don't know if she wrote it or if it's a true folk song or what.

Liland