When I was 10, I lived across the street from smoke signals headquarters when they were filming on CDA rez. It was the actors trailers, equipment staff etc. My brother, best friend and I made it our goal that summer to somehow get in the movie. We all made it in as blink and you miss it bit parts, but we made it! I'm 31 now and still have my John Trudall autograph. The KREZ radio house still stands to this day. Dang that was such a fun experience.
Wow that’s awesome and you live to tell the tail 🖖🏼🤓 it’s such a good show I was in Vancouver one day and happened to see Adam beach that’s like the main character in the movie I tried to get his auto graph but he was kind of an ass about it so I didn’t bother well there was a lot of people there trying to meet him and stuff so I could understand that..but still he didn’t have to be a dick about it 😂 Thomas is chill thou lol he’s very talkative an out going
This song inspired me. I was a native American loser who believed that there's nothing out there for me, but hearing this song told me I am somebody and give it your best. I have and life couldn't be better. THANK YOU ULALI FOR MAKING ME WHO I AM!!!!!🦅🇺🇲
This movie means so much to me. I re-watch it every year. Forgiving my father was such a long and tortured journey. Victors story resonates with me so strongly.
Same...for a good part of my life, I had a hard time forgiving both my parents. I always resented them out of pure anger for years. Then I decide to forgive. Once I did, I didn't feel like I was carrying any anger anymore. It was a healing journey for sure. Looking back, I couldn't believe I was the way I was. Being that way not only took out of them...but also out of me. Forgiving was the hardest part...but it healed me, my family, and my life.
Same here. The last few moments of the film were so powerful, I left the theater shaking and weeping. It was more than a decade later that I eventually forgave my father.
also this is a song for healing and giving back to the water...and letting the water wash and clean and the spirit rise... those are some of the words in the song. Wahjheeleh Yihm...means I carry you...whit moni... So...it means let the water carry you... It's an ancestral song for the dead and the water as the sacred source...where some of us put in the ashes as a return to be free sprirt!! I wrote this song with the help of my cousin Jennifer and Soni. We are Ulali...
The part where victor scatters his fathers ashes in the river from the bridge along with this music is so epic I always cry every time the sad part is I had an abusive father and he passed away and I just know I'm gonna bawl when I scatter my own fathers ashes
How do we forgive our Fathers? Maybe in a dream Do we forgive our Fathers for leaving us too often or forever when we were little? Maybe for scaring us with unexpected rage or making us nervous because there never seemed to be any rage there at all. Do we forgive our Fathers for marrying or not marrying our Mothers? For Divorcing or not divorcing our Mothers? And shall we forgive them for their excesses of warmth or coldness? Shall we forgive them for pushing or leaning for shutting doors for speaking through walls or never speaking or never being silent? Do we forgive our Fathers in our age or in theirs or their deaths saying it to them or not saying it? If we forgive our Fathers what is left?
My daughters try to forgive a father who does not acknowledge just the girls, also their children (his grandchildren). I pray they will find peace and also pray for their father who will someday see the heartache our daughters feel. AHO.
My father passed away from liver disease. I was never able to properly forgive him as the condition worsened taking his awareness away. This poem helps to cope with that missed opportunity.
The great thing about Native songs is that, you dont have to understand the lyrics as long as u feel it in your heart. Im part of the Laguna tribe but i connect with this song as well. :D
Cannot watch this moment in the film without sobbing like a baby! Not at 20 when I first saw it, not when I tried to show it to students at 26 or at 30 or even now nearing 40.
I remember the first time I watched this movie. I was 1 of maybe 5 NDNs in the theater....it was hilarious because we would start laughing at a part in the movie & no one else got it! So you had about 5 of us spread through out the theater just laughing (& sometimes crying)...they didn't get it. I mean it went right over their heads! 😆 The first time I saw this movie I wasn't ready to forgive my father for what he did...& what he was...now I'm 63 & watched this movie again since that time in the theater. And at the end of the movie when he released his dad on the bridge, I cried again because this time I realized I could forgive my father... I'll be forever grateful to this movie for helping me heal & move on....
I am African Amrican, only part Chrokee (on my mother & father's side). Yet this movie has always had most powerful impact on me. Much respect to my Red brothers & sisters.
Smoke signals is my all time favorite movie, when anybody, no what color, i make them watch it with me, Thinking about the last scene in the movie, when i watch it alone i burst into tears! A very emotional gripping song. I am part Cherokee, Irish and West Indian. To me this group is the REAL AMERICA! MUSIC! Winston Salem NC (Eastern Band Cherokee territory) Excellent job!
The one about North Carolina gets me because we were FROM North Carolina. Via Scotland. Dad's nodding plumes were laid to rest on the wrong side of the pond! We brought the Angus and the Spirits (which $$$ destroyed) and the BBQ! We're in Watergate II now. North Carolina folks never answered letters Dad sent in the 60s, 70s. We grew up in Maryland's Levittown built on our own tobacco field. Somebody's in trouble That wasn't just Native lands, that was Prince George's? We were educated directly from Oxford Standards, but they couldn't quit dummying us down when we already knew who we probably were. The Blackwell's Asylum Arcadians. And the VA is still gaslighting like it's 1972. FFS #STEM ! and of course, Congress is finding out how many ways it's been broken since the last Fake Depression.
This song fills my spirit and sends chills right through my bones, brings forth the tears of all of my indigenous ancestors. It's like crying deep in your soul for a place I miss with all my heart that doesn't exist here on earth.
I remember the first time I heard this song at the end of this movie. It still gives me shivers. Just watched the movie again this evening and even singing along with it. Still gives me shivers. Beautiful song
Wah Jhi Le Yihm By Ulali From Smoke Signals Soundtrack is one of the most unforgettable movies centered from an Indian culture of Spiritual depth , comedy and impact. So many talented Indian artists in the making of SMOKE SIGNALS.
Practicing this song put me on beast mode. I grew a new thick strong vocal chord🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣thank you Ulali for kicking butt across Indian country for many many moons. We all love you Ulali and Pura Fe!!!! When the stress is too much, this is the song to get it out. #Keetowah✊🏾✊🏾
You know, Adam Beach was truly victor in the movie. He lost his parents when he was young and the movie was his way if working through that. That shot at the falls was not acting but real emotion. That is why he does not get up. He can't.
Hello my aunt . this is your niece Gregoria Love the music love yo u and everyone you are singing wit h so insperational to our family. I love you.and thankyou
Amazing music, incredible film that you needn't be Native to enjoy either the film or the music. Also, Sherman Alexie's book, The Lone Ranger & Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, is well worth reading. I can't believe 52 people disliked this song. Oh well, whatever floats your boat.
A true anthem Of This Land I'm not even going to use the word America cause I am sure that the people who are native Here Did not christen their own garden home Land such. THIS is what I always thought A Star spangled banner should sound like. This is the sound of something God blessed with SINGING it HIMSELF !!!!
Watched this with my mom when i was a kid. She got me the soundtrack afterwards, and I think I played this song, and one other oooooooooooooover and ooooooooover again, I was 10 or 12 and i was already captivated by such beautiful music
I feel the strength, the power and inspiration that ULALI gives through their music. Medicine for the heart and soul. Bless all women of all walks of life.
I can hear you. This helps me to break out of daily routine and feel close to the First nations - even I am not a member of them. Just a white woman ;) but with a strong sense for Mother Nature and all spiritual things.
I've been listening to this song since the movie. I can hear and feel the pain and love. I hate this song because everytime and I mean EVERYTIME I hear it. It brings a tear to my eye.
this song is in the tutelo language...I had it translated by one of our speakers from home in NC. It's an old pigeon dialect...of our old siouan, Iroquois and coastal algonquin people's languages together. all 3 of our big nations have lived together for thousands of years here in what is now the present Virginia and Carolina's. this is a place that many nations migrated out of and went on...traveling north, west and some more south...and all over. an old hub!!
Erin Threlkeld :-) Yes, the Great Spirit reaches out to us all and inspires us through the Native culture, regardless of the color of skin we have in this life!
Erin Threlkeld If you think that, you should figure out from which tribe your ancestry is from. It is good to know. I am part Cherokee, Blackfoot, and Lakota, while my younger brother is also half Ojibwe. We also have Black Irish Gypsy, German, and Welsh in our family as well as English.
+Norberta Concho I'm not native (that I know of) but Ulali's singing reaches deep down into my soul and tears it out. Maybe I don't understand but I feel like I FEEL more deeply in their company.
Stop re colonizing. It is NOT yours. You can listen. You can marvel. You can feel guilty as hell over what goes on now..but you can never claim it. I am white. I live near 3 different tribes. I listen to singing wire. But I will not allow another white jerk to re colonize and pretend they know a damn thing.
@@MrSteedfast Ulali, who rote and performed the song say it best and I quote: "also this is a song for healing and giving back to the water...and letting the water wash and clean and the spirit rise... those are some of the words in the song. Wahjheeleh Yihm...means I carry you...whit moni... So...it means let the water carry you... It's an ancestral song for the dead and the water as the sacred source...where some of us put in the ashes as a return to be free sprirt!! I wrote this song with the help of my cousin Jennifer and Soni. We are Ulali..."
@Detlockerroom I am also only 1/16. I am part St. Regis Mohawk. Everything else is Canadian and European. As much as I've come to embrace those roots, I find myself most drawn to the Native roots. Whenever I hear the music or the language, I feel as if I'm being called from deep within. I don't know, that's just the way it feels to me.
If you punch in the Stanford Choir or chorus...mybe Chorul Group...they sing this song and Mahk Jchi so beautifully... I have passed quite a few choral Groups these songs to sing. It gives so much life to hear them sung all over the world...by such beauty. they are the best...this Stanford University Choir. they put their whole body and soul into it. Just watch them...makes me cry...
Thank you for this. They have contacted me and we exchanged the songs and it just blows me away to hear them singing these songs. They do an amazing grace to these songs...
I am a sioux... decended from a historically great man ( we don't speak the names in our way) and I have to say that I am so pleased that Robbie and Adam have surfaced. they have covered alot of ground.Robbie has a long history musically...with the Band, but he has made native music mainstream.Robbie brought out walaila, he brought out styles that were tradish and ...i dunno..jazzed up to make them contemporary then there is Adam...well dang ain't he as handsome as the day is long .
My Native American Lit class at college turned me on to Sherman Alexie. Loved being able to see him at a literary events in Portland. ~ Jenn-X, PNWer ☕
Takes me back to the good ol days when I learned how to bake cookies my dad bought them all the time so I could bake but he also listened to this song everyday i didnt care for it then but now I'm an adult hope I'm an awesome parent just like my dad was!! ❤❤❤
Absolutely beautiful, absolutely engrossing. Also invokes a sense of sorrow for the subjugation of the peoples and culture that gave birth to such spirit, and sorrow that the culture that has gained prominence instead is comparatively soulless.
i luv this song and of course the movie. this was my grandmas favorite travelin song with all the kids singin along. lol thanks for posting this song. god bless all natives. RiP mariane nelson.
I met Irene Bedard at a powwow on the San Carlos, Az reservation. She was there preforming with her band and of course her then husband Denny and baby girl were there. They hung out at the booth I was helping out at. This was just a few short years before things went south got her and their marriage.
i'm only 1/16 Native American (My Great-Great Grandmother on my dad's side is the only Native American that was in my family and unfortunately we don't know what tribe she was from) but i'm more proud of that small percentage of me than i am of the other European 15/16 that i am (English, French, German). :)
It is definitely a song of release!! Letting go of the pain that we as humans hold so deeply. It is a self forgiveness song. Nothing heals like Water. and in the movie he drops his fathers ashes into the water...releasing all of the pain and hurt to be free! a song of forgiveness.
powerfull song and connecting me with my roots as a peruvian,my parents are denying our heritage exchanging it with cristianity like many peruvians. I watched this movie many times and encouraging always to keep struggling, The milk of Sorrow movie reflect the oppresion in nowadays to native peruvians custom making confusion to young generation.
Thank you... we were sent the scene and orchestra sound track to create our song on top. We matched it to the screen. It took us all night till the wee morning...lol. it was intense...becausevwe didn't have much time.
One of a very few perfect films in my opinion. I've bought copies of the DVD for so many of my friends. Sherman Alexie and Jim Boyd are brilliant and beautiful. The cast is honest and powerful. So touching!
@CherokeeBPM Thank you so much!! Your words have touched me. I have so much respect for Native American heritage and history! And you're right, it is what's in your heart and soul... and how you live these things. Perhaps that's why the wolf honored me by becoming my spirit guide. I hope I said that right :). Have a beautiful, blessed evening!
A friend of mine's family are freinds of Ulali, he & his brothers have appeared with them, small world! Stunning song, hypnotically compelling. I can listen to this for hours. This song with the poem being recited over it & Spokane Falls in the background is true cinematic art. Thank God Alexie held to his guns & insisted on full control-well that & Tom Skerrit turning him on to Sundance for production. In any even thanks so much for sharing this I lost my CD & was jonesing for the song. Peace!
I was deeply touched with this song You don't need to read any book about native history, you don't need listen a political speech about native rights, you don´t need to see any picture or movie... you don't need even understanding the words of this song You just have to listen and you feel into the deep of your soul the message, a strong message, that comes from the thousands and thousands of souls of natives American that were slaughtered in the name of white Christian civilization.
I, too, am Iroquois-Haudenosaunee (Tonawanda Seneca/Cayuga). The first time I heard Ulali was some years ago. Their voices and songs bridge the years to home.
The #Historical #Trauma gets imprinted upon our #human #DNA, & is passed to our #descendants. Somewhere along the line. Someone has to say 'I'm going to break the Trauma, & start anew. #Indigenous
I've always loved this song... choked me up the first time I heard it in the movie. I recently chose this song to be my first attempt at transposing a song into midi format. But, it will never hold up to the original :)
The blending of voices is superb. Regardless of language, some songs are simply beautiful. This is one of them. Of course its meaning and purpose adds to it, but it is such that it would would be amazing nonetheless.
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When I was 10, I lived across the street from smoke signals headquarters when they were filming on CDA rez. It was the actors trailers, equipment staff etc. My brother, best friend and I made it our goal that summer to somehow get in the movie. We all made it in as blink and you miss it bit parts, but we made it! I'm 31 now and still have my John Trudall autograph. The KREZ radio house still stands to this day. Dang that was such a fun experience.
Wow that’s awesome and you live to tell the tail 🖖🏼🤓 it’s such a good show I was in Vancouver one day and happened to see Adam beach that’s like the main character in the movie I tried to get his auto graph but he was kind of an ass about it so I didn’t bother well there was a lot of people there trying to meet him and stuff so I could understand that..but still he didn’t have to be a dick about it 😂 Thomas is chill thou lol he’s very talkative an out going
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Ok lp0
Love your story❤
That's incredible!!!
where was your moment in the film?
This song inspired me. I was a native American loser who believed that there's nothing out there for me, but hearing this song told me I am somebody and give it your best. I have and life couldn't be better. THANK YOU ULALI FOR MAKING ME WHO I AM!!!!!🦅🇺🇲
This movie means so much to me. I re-watch it every year. Forgiving my father was such a long and tortured journey. Victors story resonates with me so strongly.
Likewise
Forgiving fathers is hard to do, but essential for healed soul.
I have Cherokee in me it means a lot to me as well bless you
Same...for a good part of my life, I had a hard time forgiving both my parents. I always resented them out of pure anger for years. Then I decide to forgive. Once I did, I didn't feel like I was carrying any anger anymore. It was a healing journey for sure. Looking back, I couldn't believe I was the way I was. Being that way not only took out of them...but also out of me. Forgiving was the hardest part...but it healed me, my family, and my life.
Same here. The last few moments of the film were so powerful, I left the theater shaking and weeping. It was more than a decade later that I eventually forgave my father.
also this is a song for healing and giving back to the water...and letting the water wash and clean and the spirit rise... those are some of the words in the song. Wahjheeleh Yihm...means I carry you...whit moni... So...it means let the water carry you... It's an ancestral song for the dead and the water as the sacred source...where some of us put in the ashes as a return to be free sprirt!! I wrote this song with the help of my cousin Jennifer and Soni. We are Ulali...
Awesome
Thank you for this song that has stayed with me through 20s, 30s and as I close out my 40s...to many more
I am living it.......
Thank you, Pura Fe! I got to see you 3 original members play live a few times in my teens and 20s, your music means so much to me, and to so many! 💛
Very powerful!! Very healing!
The part where victor scatters his fathers ashes in the river from the bridge along with this music is so epic I always cry every time the sad part is I had an abusive father and he passed away and I just know I'm gonna bawl when I scatter my own fathers ashes
How do we forgive our Fathers?
Maybe in a dream
Do we forgive our Fathers for leaving us too often or forever
when we were little?
Maybe for scaring us with unexpected rage
or making us nervous
because there never seemed to be any rage there at all.
Do we forgive our Fathers for marrying or not marrying our Mothers?
For Divorcing or not divorcing our Mothers?
And shall we forgive them for their excesses of warmth or coldness?
Shall we forgive them for pushing or leaning
for shutting doors
for speaking through walls
or never speaking
or never being silent?
Do we forgive our Fathers in our age or in theirs
or their deaths
saying it to them or not saying it?
If we forgive our Fathers what is left?
My daughters try to forgive a father who does not acknowledge just the girls, also their children (his grandchildren). I pray they will find peace and also pray for their father who will someday see the heartache our daughters feel. AHO.
My father passed away from liver disease. I was never able to properly forgive him as the condition worsened taking his awareness away. This poem helps to cope with that missed opportunity.
We did not write those words. Sherman did. I am glad it helps some people...
The great thing about Native songs is that, you dont have to understand the lyrics as long as u feel it in your heart. Im part of the Laguna tribe but i connect with this song as well. :D
Same. I wish my elders had taught me the Tiwa language, but I still enjoy the songs..
i love this song....powerful, heartfelt, full of Native pride.......my heart swells every time i hear it.
Me too! Love the movie!!
❤
Cannot watch this moment in the film without sobbing like a baby! Not at 20 when I first saw it, not when I tried to show it to students at 26 or at 30 or even now nearing 40.
"When we forgive our fathers" hits me SO hard.
The same. Hits too close to home.
I cry like a baby too.
I'm 49. The tears continue.
Yeah, I tear up every time I watch the movie!! Touches my ❤!!
I remember the first time I watched this movie. I was 1 of maybe 5 NDNs in the theater....it was hilarious because we would start laughing at a part in the movie & no one else got it! So you had about 5 of us spread through out the theater just laughing (& sometimes crying)...they didn't get it. I mean it went right over their heads! 😆 The first time I saw this movie I wasn't ready to forgive my father for what he did...& what he was...now I'm 63 & watched this movie again since that time in the theater. And at the end of the movie when he released his dad on the bridge, I cried again because this time I realized I could forgive my father... I'll be forever grateful to this movie for helping me heal & move on....
That's powerful to hear what you said. ❤
My father used to play this when i was a child. I just had to find it now at 17. it brings tears to my eyes
Your father is a real one!
@@jonmacdonald5345 he really is. Still the coolest man I know 😎
Same!! I miss my dad.
I have Black Foot Indian ancestry on my mother's side of my family. It's so cool. The Native American culture KICKS ASS!
For years I have been looking for the complete Smoke Signals soundtrack. I finally found it. Thanks for sharing.
I am African Amrican, only part Chrokee (on my mother & father's side). Yet this movie has always had most powerful impact on me. Much respect to my Red brothers & sisters.
Fiiiiiffty Pieces of Fry Bread.........!
I love this movie it takes me back to a great time in my life I am Tarascan Indian, and Apache!
Hey, Eli Ayala . . . .you use to much flowerrrrrr! And you should kneed your dough some moooore!
Smoke signals is my all time favorite movie, when anybody, no what color, i make them watch it with me, Thinking about the last scene in the movie, when i watch it alone i burst into tears! A very emotional gripping song. I am part Cherokee, Irish and West Indian. To me this group is the REAL AMERICA! MUSIC! Winston Salem NC (Eastern Band Cherokee territory) Excellent job!
The one about North Carolina gets me because we were FROM North Carolina. Via Scotland. Dad's nodding plumes were laid to rest on the wrong side of the pond! We brought the Angus and the Spirits (which $$$ destroyed) and the BBQ!
We're in Watergate II now. North Carolina folks never answered letters Dad sent in the 60s, 70s. We grew up in Maryland's Levittown built on our own tobacco field. Somebody's in trouble That wasn't just Native lands, that was Prince George's? We were educated directly from Oxford Standards, but they couldn't quit dummying us down when we already knew who we probably were. The Blackwell's Asylum Arcadians. And the VA is still gaslighting like it's 1972. FFS #STEM ! and of course, Congress is finding out how many ways it's been broken since the last Fake Depression.
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This song fills my spirit and sends chills right through my bones, brings forth the tears of all of my indigenous ancestors. It's like crying deep in your soul for a place I miss with all my heart that doesn't exist here on earth.
I remember the first time I heard this song at the end of this movie. It still gives me shivers. Just watched the movie again this evening and even singing along with it. Still gives me shivers. Beautiful song
When those drums first drop though, what a beautiful song!
D Clark the first cry out grabs my soul
Facts
I'ma drummer....a damned good one😇🥁😉🚬
My channel is compromised by an unapologetic piece of shit who obviously doesn't value the sacred.
What a great movie, so real and love the soundtrack.
Wah Jhi Le Yihm By Ulali From Smoke Signals Soundtrack is one of the most unforgettable movies centered from an Indian culture of Spiritual depth , comedy and impact. So many talented Indian artists in the making of SMOKE SIGNALS.
This was the first movie I watched when I had came to the US for study. It was so meaningful, and I will never forget it.
One of the best Movies glad it was your first!
Pura Fe.... thank you for all of the music and culture that you share with the world. Your songs and soaring voice is a blessing to us all.
Practicing this song put me on beast mode. I grew a new thick strong vocal chord🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣thank you Ulali for kicking butt across Indian country for many many moons. We all love you Ulali and Pura Fe!!!! When the stress is too much, this is the song to get it out.
#Keetowah✊🏾✊🏾
You know, Adam Beach was truly victor in the movie. He lost his parents when he was young and the movie was his way if working through that. That shot at the falls was not acting but real emotion. That is why he does not get up. He can't.
Hello my aunt . this is your niece Gregoria Love the music love yo u and everyone you are singing wit h so insperational to our family. I love you.and thankyou
First time i heard this i was hooked. when the women began singing it brought an emmense warmth to my heart. Its a beautiful song!
Long live the Natives. . .
I'm a descendant of Chief Geronimo!!
Will always treasure this movie and the ending with this song and the river will always choke me up. Very strong resonance.
This song is so deep... I can't even put it in words
Thanks man.
Dine' huh?.
You just did sir.
Amazing music, incredible film that you needn't be Native to enjoy either the film or the music. Also, Sherman Alexie's book, The Lone Ranger & Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, is well worth reading. I can't believe 52 people disliked this song. Oh well, whatever floats your boat.
A true anthem Of This Land I'm not even going to use the word America cause I am sure that the people who are native Here Did not christen their own garden home Land such.
THIS is what I always thought A Star spangled banner should sound like.
This is the sound of something God blessed with SINGING it HIMSELF !!!!
Watched this with my mom when i was a kid. She got me the soundtrack afterwards, and I think I played this song, and one other oooooooooooooover and ooooooooover again, I was 10 or 12 and i was already captivated by such beautiful music
Better than any song on all radio right now!
rainonariver I love your picture!💕💕
Dat wind kicks up dem vocals across d'bones of all that lived before . . . and tears get quickly sucked into dis parched land . . . . . . .
I love this film!!! Beautiful story, great actors, & this music seems so spiritual!!!
Rodney Knolton
Memphis,Tn.
10/19/2023
what a moving powerful song for all of us... not just indians the world! Jesus saves and this speaks what his message is!
an underappreciated movie that is universal -- father son relations, community, mystery. this is beautiful music. makes me cry.
One of my favorite soundtracks! and my niece, who is 8, has now made this hers and i love it!
Best song I've heard for a long time. I wish I had the soundtrack for the movie, so many nice songs.
The first time I met my father when 14 was in Spokane. He died in Arizona. He didn’t mean to do what he did.
It sounds like you have forgiven him?
That is positive. Keep being positive ✨️
One of the most powerful songs I've heard. Thanks for providing this.
I'm in love with this song! No lie! Reminds me of my adopted Navajo Grandmother. Love her lots she's the best. Ahehee for posting this great song!
Carla McCarthy I'm navajo too & I'm glad to hear that💕
I feel the strength, the power and inspiration that ULALI gives through their music. Medicine for the heart and soul. Bless all women of all walks of life.
I can hear you. This helps me to break out of daily routine and feel close to the First nations - even I am not a member of them. Just a white woman ;) but with a strong sense for Mother Nature and all spiritual things.
I've been listening to this song since the movie. I can hear and feel the pain and love. I hate this song because everytime and I mean EVERYTIME I hear it. It brings a tear to my eye.
this song is in the tutelo language...I had it translated by one of our speakers from home in NC. It's an old pigeon dialect...of our old siouan, Iroquois and coastal algonquin people's languages together. all 3 of our big nations have lived together for thousands of years here in what is now the present Virginia and Carolina's. this is a place that many nations migrated out of and went on...traveling north, west and some more south...and all over. an old hub!!
I Love their music, it's so soothing n powerful that only a Native would understand!!!!
Erin Threlkeld
:-) Yes, the Great Spirit reaches out to us all and inspires us through the Native culture, regardless of the color of skin we have in this life!
Erin Threlkeld
That's something to cherish! :-)
Erin Threlkeld If you think that, you should figure out from which tribe your ancestry is from. It is good to know.
I am part Cherokee, Blackfoot, and Lakota, while my younger brother is also half Ojibwe. We also have Black Irish Gypsy, German, and Welsh in our family as well as English.
+Norberta Concho I'm not native (that I know of) but Ulali's singing reaches deep down into my soul and tears it out. Maybe I don't understand but I feel like I FEEL more deeply in their company.
Stop re colonizing. It is NOT yours. You can listen. You can marvel. You can feel guilty as hell over what goes on now..but you can never claim it. I am white. I live near 3 different tribes. I listen to singing wire. But I will not allow another white jerk to re colonize and pretend they know a damn thing.
Love this song. I descend from the Tutelo-Saponi people, which is the language this song is written in.
I was wondering, thank you!
written in the Tutelo language. Means "I carry you with me"
Any chance you’d be great enough to share the full lyrical translations here?
@@MrSteedfast Ulali, who rote and performed the song say it best and I quote: "also this is a song for healing and giving back to the water...and letting the water wash and clean and the spirit rise... those are some of the words in the song. Wahjheeleh Yihm...means I carry you...whit moni... So...it means let the water carry you... It's an ancestral song for the dead and the water as the sacred source...where some of us put in the ashes as a return to be free sprirt!! I wrote this song with the help of my cousin Jennifer and Soni. We are Ulali..."
@@kevinscottbell thank you!
I love this song. Thank you so much. I'm listening to it a lot lately....here in urban Austin.
@Detlockerroom I am also only 1/16. I am part St. Regis Mohawk. Everything else is Canadian and European. As much as I've come to embrace those roots, I find myself most drawn to the Native roots. Whenever I hear the music or the language, I feel as if I'm being called from deep within. I don't know, that's just the way it feels to me.
If you punch in the Stanford Choir or chorus...mybe Chorul Group...they sing this song and Mahk Jchi so beautifully... I have passed quite a few choral Groups these songs to sing. It gives so much life to hear them sung all over the world...by such beauty. they are the best...this Stanford University Choir. they put their whole body and soul into it. Just watch them...makes me cry...
Thank you for this. They have contacted me and we exchanged the songs and it just blows me away to hear them singing these songs. They do an amazing grace to these songs...
Cheers to Ulali!! This was one of my favorite songs in the Smoke Signals movie - very moving; you did a great job.
Always makes me sob, this scene and this song...
I had the privilege to hear these beautiful ladies sing this song in person at a small womens conference in high school. Truely touches the soul.
I am a sioux... decended from a historically great man ( we don't speak the names in our way) and I have to say that I am so pleased that Robbie and Adam have surfaced. they have covered alot of ground.Robbie has a long history musically...with the Band, but he has made native music mainstream.Robbie brought out walaila, he brought out styles that were tradish and ...i dunno..jazzed up to make them contemporary then there is Adam...well dang ain't he as handsome as the day is long .
My Native American Lit class at college turned me on to Sherman Alexie. Loved being able to see him at a literary events in Portland. ~ Jenn-X, PNWer ☕
Takes me back to the good ol days when I learned how to bake cookies my dad bought them all the time so I could bake but he also listened to this song everyday i didnt care for it then but now I'm an adult hope I'm an awesome parent just like my dad was!! ❤❤❤
Absolutely beautiful, absolutely engrossing. Also invokes a sense of sorrow for the subjugation of the peoples and culture that gave birth to such spirit, and sorrow that the culture that has gained prominence instead is comparatively soulless.
i luv this song and of course the movie. this was my grandmas favorite travelin song with all the kids singin along. lol thanks for posting this song. god bless all natives. RiP mariane nelson.
I met Irene Bedard at a powwow on the San Carlos, Az reservation. She was there preforming with her band and of course her then husband Denny and baby girl were there. They hung out at the booth I was helping out at. This was just a few short years before things went south got her and their marriage.
I embrace this with my soul, spirit and being
i'm only 1/16 Native American (My Great-Great Grandmother on my dad's side is the only Native American that was in my family and unfortunately we don't know what tribe she was from) but i'm more proud of that small percentage of me than i am of the other European 15/16 that i am (English, French, German). :)
Similar story here!
It is definitely a song of release!! Letting go of the pain that we as humans hold so deeply. It is a self forgiveness song. Nothing heals like Water. and in the movie he drops his fathers ashes into the water...releasing all of the pain and hurt to be free! a song of forgiveness.
Your comment resonates with me. Bless you sister. This song has healing powers
I'm half Native American and Spanish! Proud of who I AM!
My daughter is suquamish and I am of aztec descent I love Ulali they are so beautiful to the ears
powerfull song and connecting me with my roots as a peruvian,my parents are denying our heritage exchanging it with cristianity like many peruvians. I watched this movie many times and encouraging always to keep struggling, The milk of Sorrow movie reflect the oppresion in nowadays to native peruvians custom making confusion to young generation.
🇵🇪 igual con mi madre. Ella es peruana tmb.
When I first herd this song as a trailer of Smoke Signals, I begin a internet search. It is truly beautifully done!
Thank you... we were sent the scene and orchestra sound track to create our song on top. We matched it to the screen. It took us all night till the wee morning...lol. it was intense...becausevwe didn't have much time.
Listening to this is like a religious experience to me...shakes me to my soul
The drums at 1:00 and following....sooo badass!
One of a very few perfect films in my opinion. I've bought copies of the DVD for so many of my friends. Sherman Alexie and Jim Boyd are brilliant and beautiful. The cast is honest and powerful. So touching!
@CherokeeBPM Thank you so much!! Your words have touched me. I have so much respect for Native American heritage and history! And you're right, it is what's in your heart and soul... and how you live these things. Perhaps that's why the wolf honored me by becoming my spirit guide. I hope I said that right :). Have a beautiful, blessed evening!
So Beautiful ....so Deep 🙏💖
Thank you 💖🙏
I ♡ Ulali
Katrina Rounds yes
I'm Mohawk/Abenaki and I love this song..It speaks to my heart and my soul!
We Love Native Indians - Africa - Ireland they have very strong gorgeous marvelous Sounds/Music
My family is a pile of land mines I’m trying to navigate wish we could get closer
Those smiles :)
A friend of mine's family are freinds of Ulali, he & his brothers have appeared with them, small world! Stunning song, hypnotically compelling. I can listen to this for hours. This song with the poem being recited over it & Spokane Falls in the background is true cinematic art. Thank God Alexie held to his guns & insisted on full control-well that & Tom Skerrit turning him on to Sundance for production. In any even thanks so much for sharing this I lost my CD & was jonesing for the song. Peace!
The Sneezies?
The most Powerful song ever made.
Powerful, compassion, healing; Bravo!!
Just beautiful, Ulali. Thank you.
I saw this with my Engish class and I really enjoyed seeing this
I LOVE this song ! I love the movie sound track and the movie! Awesome !
I was deeply touched with this song
You don't need to read any book about native history, you don't need listen a political speech about native rights, you don´t need to see any picture or movie... you don't need even understanding the words of this song
You just have to listen and you feel into the deep of your soul the message, a strong message, that comes from the thousands and thousands of souls of natives American that were slaughtered in the name of white Christian civilization.
I, too, am Iroquois-Haudenosaunee (Tonawanda Seneca/Cayuga). The first time I heard Ulali was some years ago. Their voices and songs bridge the years to home.
How are those insanely beautifully intense, soul-scorching notes even humanly possible?
legendary Robbie Robertson......beautiful Adam.....love you forever......love to all native American people....
Love this song, very soothing to the soul
Very powerful if you just relax and let the music in... It was very powerful in the film Smoke Signals, too,
This song brings me peace ✌️💯☮️✊😇💯❤️🦋🐻🦉🐢♀️🆒
Powerful song! I listen 2 it @ the beginning n end of the day! Keeps me @ peace :)
I'm not crying you're crying... lol okay I'm crying.. since I was a little girl I've loved ulali..
The #Historical #Trauma gets imprinted upon our #human #DNA, & is passed to our #descendants.
Somewhere along the line. Someone has to say 'I'm going to break the Trauma, & start anew.
#Indigenous
one of the most powerful songs i have ever heard....
I've always loved this song... choked me up the first time I heard it in the movie. I recently chose this song to be my first attempt at transposing a song into midi format. But, it will never hold up to the original :)
🙌🙌🙌👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😭😭😭😭😭YES to my native sisters who endure.
#Daughters of Zion
Good movie, good music, so miss Spokane--my home town! Riverfront park! the place i long to be...
The blending of voices is superb. Regardless of language, some songs are simply beautiful. This is one of them. Of course its meaning and purpose adds to it, but it is such that it would would be amazing nonetheless.
I am sure this is an ancestral song. I know mine get up and start dancing the moment it comes on.
I loved this movie and it's rich characters. The music at the end was so beautiful I had to look it up. Thank you for posting.