Mdewakanton Pow Wow Association
Vietnam Veterans' Song
2001 · Innova 547 · Mankato, Minnesota
- Artist
- Mdewakanton Pow Wow Association
- Title
- Vietnam Veterans' Song
- Release
- Mahkato Wacipi
- Year
- 2001
- Label
- Innova # 547
- Format
- CD · Album
- Country
- Mankato, Minnesota, USA
- Genre
- Indigenous American Music · Pow-Wow
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — Indigenous Americans
This various artist CD featured the song "Vietnam Veterans' Song" (Innova Recordings # 547), focused on Indigenous Americans that fought in the war. The back sleeve of the CD said: "Traditional stories and songs of the Dakotah and Lakotah nations presented by the Mahkato Mdewakanton Association commemorating the US-Dakotah Conflict of 1862 and the hanging of the Thirty Eight". Performers included: Bain Wilson, Colin Wilson, George Squirrelcoat, Jerry Dearly, Mazakute, and Prairie Island Singers.1Sources1innova.mu: Mahkato wacipi↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Innova Recordings 547, 2-CD set, disc 1 track 5, 5:56; recorded at the Mahkato Wacipi (Mankato, Minnesota), commemorating the US-Dakota Conflict of 1862. Liner notes: "an old song that originally came out of North Dakota"; the drum is not credited (host drums Maza-kute, Prairie Island Singers, Lower Sioux Drum).