tmj@unimelb.edu.au


I think the song is 'Kisakhitin' which, I think, means 'I love you' in Cree. Buffy Ste Marie appears never to have recorded it but it featured in the TV special 'The Many Moods of Buffy Sainte-Marie' back in the early 1980s. The special also included footage of BSM being inducted into the Lakota tribe in Alberta. The song contains a reference to a Lakota elder prophcy that "it would
The song is beautiful, and, stylistically, very much a BSM original. IIt includes the lines -
'Now on some reservation your purification's begun,
It's the 5th generation - the young and the old are as one
Singing : come back to the sweetgrass, back to the pipe and the drum,
and be your future".
BSM refers - almost subliminally - to the song on the last track of 'RUNNING FOR THE DRUM'.