Stoney Park creates song with Shoshone words By LORI EDMO-SUPPAH Sho-Ban News FORT HALL — Stoney Park, one of the Shoshone-Bannock Festival powwow’s host drums that came from Exshaw, Alberta Canada, composed a song for the Tribes. It includes Shoshone words, “Indian people dance hard — dance hard for the people.” Festival coordinator Rose Ann Abrahamson said it’s a most beautiful song and will go on to be legendary. Lead singer Coleman Beaver of Stoney Park said he asked Rose Ann for some words in the Shoshone language, “So we could make you guys a song so the tribe can enjoy and remember this time.” “We also going to take it on the road and spread that song everywhere we go.” Beaver said he was at the Festival a long time ago when the old arbor was up and “It was pretty dusty back then – no grass.” It was when his father was still alive but they lost him in 1994 and then their mother in 2003. The drum group quit singing for seven years because someone had to look after their property at home in Canada. “We stayed home and fixed everything up.” In 2010, they came out again. “All our boys are grown up.” He added Stoney Park is family drum group that consists of his sons, along with his brother and his sons. He said the Festival was a pretty good powwow, “I enjoyed myself,” and next they are on their way to Fort Thompson where they’re host drum. They will be on the road for the next four weeks. They have a weekend break and take off again. Beaver said the drum group is on the powwow trail for about 10 months out of the year. “We have family at home and need to get back, we also have horses,” he continued. Coleman said every powwow is good, “To us it’s like a Native style concert — like the white man’s guitar, ours is the drum.” He said they’ve also composed songs in other Native languages such as Choctaw, Ponca and Chippewa, to name a few. “We make songs in every language because we go all over —last month we went from Kansas to Seattle all the way to Toronto.” (Gabriel Wahtomy video)
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 21:01:04 +0000
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