Menominee Vietnam Veterans Song
1997 · Rykodisc RCD 10370 · Neopit, Wisconsin
- Artist
- Smokeytown Singers
- Title
- Menominee Vietnam Veterans Song
- Release
- American Warriors: Songs for Indian Veterans
- Year
- 1997
- Label
- Rykodisc # RCD 10370
- Format
- CD · Compilation
- Language
- Menominee
- Country
- Neopit, Wisconsin, USA
- Songwriter
- Myron Pyawasit
- Genre
- Indigenous American Music · Pow-Wow
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — Indigenous Americans
The song "Menominee Vietnam Veterans Song" (Rykodisc # RCD 10370), performed by The Smokeytown Singers of Neopit, Wisconsin, organised and led by Myron Pyawasit in 1973. The notes in the booklet said the "Myron composed this veterans song to honor those Menominee servicemen who served in the Vietnam War".1 The lyrics are as follows: "Vietnam naenawehtaw nimiyon, naenawehtaw, waewaenen", which translates as "brave warriors from Vietnam are dancing, we are proud of you, thank you". Other songs on this compilation World War 1 & 2, Korea, and the First Gulf War (1990).Sources1folkways-media.si.edu↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Rykodisc RCD 10370 ("The World" series), track 12, 7:12; producer Thomas Vennum Jr., executive producer Mickey Hart. Composed by Myron Pyawasit to honour Menominee servicemen of the Vietnam War. Text: "Vietnam naenawehtaw nimiyon, naenawehtaw, waewaenen" ("brave warriors from Vietnam are dancing, we are proud of you, thank you").
About the artist
Menominee drum of Neopit, Wisconsin, USA, organised in 1973 by Myron Pyawasit, then 19, and named after the smoky fires of his village of Zoar. [Source: American Warriors booklet]