Turtle Song - Wabanaki Drumming Song

[@MeandYoutoo8]

Turtle hearts keep beating long after the animal dies ... woman's strength is the force that allows all hearts to beat. We can't have one without the other. It's all the same song ... all songs are different parts of the same music. Like the turtle's heart and woman's strength ... different parts of the same music. The heart would not beat if not for the strength and the strength would not be strong if not for the heart. Love you.

[@rosemarytaylor1958]

Strong Medicine! We are all One! Aho

[@blueraven8318]

Miigwetch 💚

[@bluestarvisions]

Beautifully done ... here it is taught as the Strong Woman's song. The story goes that an Anishnabeg woman in Kingston prison sung the song to support her sisters there. I would love to hear Wabanaki's story of where the song came from for them. Miigwech! Welalin.

[@Abenwliwni]

Yes. I drummed with the Kingston with the native sisterhood . I am also Abenaki ( wanabaki) and also only know this song as the strong women’s song . Given to the native sisterhood by an elder .

[@Skiwun-42x]

This is passmaquoddy from wax cylinders earliest recordings of anyone leave it to the white washed abanaki to "☝️🤓"

[@Abenwliwni]

@@Skiwun-42x I am also wolastiquik. And Abenaki from Quebec not ( Vermont or Mass)

[@rezryda207]

@maaniihs the origin of this song is wabanaki... but could have been passed to us from another tribe long time ago and it is a "round dance" but can be used as a honor song... as to whom... whom ever think they can sing it respectfully but dont try to steal the song and claim it as yours as many others have

[@BigFishingShop]

Sounds as wonderful over here in Eastern Washington state, I put the speakers outside and let it fill the canyons, talk about awesome !!!

[@The1Weezie1]

Strong woman's song from woman in the 80's ... some still live to sing this ....

[@Abenwliwni]

I was at p4W Kingston Ontario, when this song was handed down to the women in P4W

[@randytyler2928]

Spirit of the Dawn recorded this from the old wax cylinders that were recorded at the turn of the century that we're in the archives of the Passamaquoddy and they were the first to sing it and record it on cassette tape back around 1990, that is how EVERYONE hurd it first and has passed it on.

[@cynthiataylor8453]

Similar to the strong but slightly different

[@Spiritspast]

This is very inspiring drumming and singing, it moves your spirit to a higher place

[@pqiptesdana81]

This is a Passamaquoddy Song & its The Round Dance song, I know cause I'm Passamaquoddy & sang this song more times then I can count.

[@Shadic24367]

The Passamaquoddy are apart of the Wabanaki Confederacy, which to my Knowledge consists of the Algonquin tribes The Mi'kmaq, The Abenaki, The Penobscot, and The Passamaquoddy so when they say Wabanaki songs they mean songs from all of us

[@LOLGirl1989]

Pqiptes Dana kzbin.info/www/bejne/i16pY4uPg8dseq8 actually this is the round dance song. Just saying. Similar but not quite the same.

[@tomtinkersrezlife278]

@@Shadic24367 yes u r right I no what u r saying and i no what she is saying cuz we both live in the same reservation in maine

[@Abenwliwni]

@@Shadic24367and the wolastiquik (Maliseet)

[@danielthurber77]

Thank you.

[@NickArroyave23]

i love listening to music that my penobscot ancestors would have listened too.. in reality, Indians actually had a concept of what God was like. (Great Creator)

[@danielthurber77]

The ancestors had God for sure. We are Blessed by this.

[@beckerisfly]

this song we deffo sang comming out of a sweat lodge. god i need to relive my past and relearn the ways of my tribe

[@ardellehendrickson4524]

Turtle drumming awesome

[@goopindog4627]

I Love This

[@LeoSmiles]

Very beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

[@MeandYoutoo8]

Darkness is always behind us. Love

[@lesliethurston7891]

To set history straight... All who THINK this is the Strong Woman's Song ... are incorrect. Yes, it has been taught all over as such, but what actually happened was that many songs were brought to the women in prison. The actual Strong Woman song is a single tap beat starts out "way hey ya, way hey ya hey oh... but after that it's completely different from the one we know today as the strong woman song. Someone in jail simply confused them... The Strong Woman song was written by a woman named Sky Women. I attended a sharing circle that she led and she played her song. The actual history of 'this' song is in the comments. And now you know what you are singing.

[@danielthurber77]

Been fishing!?

[@shywolfspirits]

You can also find the tapes at Mount Independence Museum in Vermont. It is where I got my tapes a couple of years ago.

[@PotniaTheronVT]

Thank you so very much!

[@jennaella285]

OMG this song is very similar to the "Strong Woman's Song" that we sing at our ladies drum circle!

[@castsashadow]

These are great, but you need more! Would love to see the Warrior Song by Spirit of the Dawn here. Also the Flag Song as recorded by the Red Hawk Singers always gives me chills.

[@hippiehorselover]

good stuff

[@maaniihs]

Can someone comment on the origin of this song? What tribe? When is it to be sung? By whom?

[@Breehippy4]

Turtles!! :)

[@rezryda207]

@majobichaverde its just a chant... no words just vocables. WayyyyHayYa Wayhiyo Aya... no what i mean

[@lunacrawford7276]

Wela'lin

[@Mikinaak2023]

No offense, this was sang well. But this for sure The Strong Woman song. Developed in the Kingston pen by the women incarcerated there. Gee dee beeg anisnawbek is the Turtle song.

[@randytyler2928]

Spirit of the Dawn we're the first to record this song from the old wax cylinders that were recorded at the turn of the century these were kept in the archives of the Passamaquoddy, they were the first to sing it and the first to record it, they recorded it on cassette tape around 1990.

[@johnnyroyal1959]

The song Originates from Original Algonquin language of the First People on this land , all the Native Languages are same just change due to dialect and slang

[@icy_candy-vr]

I’m Passamaquoddy to

[@palmapanfu]

I heard this song before, and I agree it's from the west I think ojibwa sung this

[@evilgrin16]

u know i amm Mikmaq, i am proud to be mikmaqq and am not proud to be native american....u should be proud of who ur ppl r not what other people call u ass....mikmaq pride !!1

[@ForestMystic]

A Spirit of the Dawn cassette tape found its way into my hands over twelve years ago, but I lost it along the way of my travels. If anyone knows where I can find their music available again, please send me a message. Thank you!

[@williamjeffersonjameslowma3970]

first time hearing my people cries and medicine sonngs

[@priscillasappier1735]

🏆

[@joshb789]

Turtle is mikinaak, pronounced like mik-in-awk. At least in anishinaabemowin. Thames first nation here. And your clan your dodem. I'm mikinaak nidoodem

[@alwynjeddore6792]

Turtle in Mi'kmaw is Mikjikj, pretty close to Anishinaabe. My ntotem(dodem) is Muin - bear.

[@floating_iceberg]

answering in 2021, April 23th. Mikinaak in INUIT culture means something like: the small one

[@salmonfire]

ive been chanting as long as these great singers, and this song comes from west, this is the first time i heard that it is Wapana'ki'k in origin, i am pretty sure its not...

[@johnnyroyal1959]

That's my people and if you don't like it go chew on pine nutts

[@EskMikmaq]

@cuchulain55 E'e, Mi'kmaq word for turtle is Mikjikj

[@cuchulain55]

is te mik´maq word for turtle Mikchich or some thing thing like that.

[@justicevanalstine325]

For sure is the strong woman song as I was taught by a drum group who are very knowledgable I would go as far as saying if this song is being claimed as being the turtle song that perhaps it should be the actual turtle song no disrespect intended but our young need to learn it comes from there own people and not be lead to confusion

[@rezryda207]

@tachyonblade no but im working on one

[@lisapitzel9426]

Ok...as a singer I was given this song and it was told to me it was The Strong Woman Song. Now I don't want to sing it if I don't know where it came from! I wish somebody would give a definite answer to where this song came from! So disappointed...😔 Its a beautiful song and I want to credit it properly as is the protocol I was taught....

[@lesliethurston7891]

New answers in the thread to your question.

[@emilyclairoux4280]

This sounds like a travelling song

[@rezryda207]

@ForestMystic right here

[@str8rezdog]

@smithrsl didnt mean to hit thumbs down aunti, i apologize. wela'lieg

[@NovaCeleste1]

This is the strong woman song it is a women's honor song

[@rezryda207]

@NickArroyave23 yessah

[@justicevanalstine325]

Sounds very much like the strong woman song but regardless good singing guys

[@cornstalking]

This is the Strong Womans song...women sang it for strenght in prison....

[@rezryda207]

@shywolfspirits

[@sundancewarrior9503]

This song is called strong woman song not the turtle song

[@hallareena]

This is 100% the powerful woman song

[@shrekwilliams]

Thumbs Up If You Notice Their Aint A 5:24

[@rezryda207]

@kreepykrawlie no... a stolen copy. Get from us the source

[@JocelynBridget]

Lol! Translation! There is no translation, it's just a bunch of wayy ahhh wayy ahhh waayy hiii yahhh!

[@hippiehorselover]

XD

[@ChickenJane70]

They are called vocables. www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vocable