Qu'appelle Valley Saskatchewan by Buffy Sainte-Marie. From her album Sweet America (1976). One of my favorite songs ever! The pics are from all over the internet.
I remember one of her songs from the 60s , my brother bought one of her records on vinyl but there wasn't much in mainstream pop music that I remember , I was very young but do remember country girl and maybe a few others and some from movies
Oh my giddy aunt, listen to this so many times, still gives me goosebumps, Buffy my life's guidance since 1976.. much love to her and all to listen to her.. x
You can travel all alone, or you can come along with me.....Wrap me in your blanket dance me around, aren't these the most beautiful lyrics ever written.
Buffy herself was taken from the Qu'apelle Valley reserve when still a baby in blankets...this must refer to her own experience, she later returned to the reserve and was adopted by the Chief, is an official member of the reserve now where she was born.
@@musicmasterplayer4532 No she wasn't, she's a white woman born in Massachusetts who could afford to live anywhere, and chose to SETTLE on Polynesian land which is where she's lived for years. 😡
This song reminds me of my kokum. She lived in Fort Qu'Apelle for a long time and whenever I pass through the valley I think of this song and her. I love singing this song though it brings me to tears from time to time. I love you Buffy so much!!!!
A genius marriage of Indigenous and English lyrics, sounds, voices, mood, instrumentation, and everything else. Agree to comment below: should be Saskatchewan's provincial song.
You can travel all alone You can travel all alone Or you can come along with me Walk the old way Hey-oh, ha, hey-ya Wrap me in your blanket dance me around Wrap me in your blanket dance me around Take me back to where my heart belongs Qu'Appelle Valley, ho Saskatchewan Qu'Appelle Valley, ho Saskatchewan You can travel all alone You can travel all alone Or you can come along with me Walk the old way Hey-oh, ha, hey-ya
This should be a no brainer. People try to distinguish if she is American or Canadian. She is neither as Indigenous Peoples have no national borders. However she is an incredible talent.
I loved this song immensely when I bought the album in 1976 and I have never tired of it. It is the first song I heard by Buffy Sainte-Marie in which she included her Native American Indian sound in her music. It is BRILLIANT. I was so glad that this would be used frequently in her following recordings.
Mamalani4 Her music does the same to me! It always makes me weep. I think it’s a deep longing for something.... some kind of nostalgia. I don’t really know for sure.
@@tanyawilson2969 you know why you have those feelings?? It's only natural to feel the way you feel because of how the ignorance of the white man...😕😟😤😤😤💯
PUFF the magic Dragon I wish I had never read your comment! It ruins a perfectly nice thread. No one should sit around nursing old wounds. This song is about love and going home. Not about social justice. Your comment is a downer. We all need to move forward and choose happiness and love and kindness. Not bring others down! I hope you can move on from whatever ails your spirit as I wish goodness and healing for you. By the way Buffy’s version of Helpless is the best I ever heard. It also makes me cry.
This is such a beautiful song! I originally knew a cover version by a British New Wave/Synth Pop group called Red Box, but only recently got round to listening to the original version by Buffy Sainte-Marie. It's very rare for a song to make me teary these days, but this one definitely did. I didn't know until I listened to this song that she is an Indigenous Canadian.
@@romielnagar1062 Which, for Buffy, is apparently Hawaii, not Canada which she claimed to be her ancestral home. She could afford to live anywhere, and she SETTLED on Polynesian land. 🤦🏾♀️ So much "love" she has for people's ancestral land 😡
I hope it will be recorded tomorrow, and over and over again from others carrying the torch of enlightenment said to have been granted to us from Promethevs. Let that spark lighten all corners of darkness! From ignorance to bliss!
My great-aunt and uncle ran a hotel and pub in Fort Qu-Appelle, and I got to visit that town when I was a kid. Great memories of watching an army of ants carrying food down a road back to their nest.
Buffy captured my heart....think it was in the early 90's, she came to the New Haven green and played a free show...I will never , ever forget it ever.....in fact....out of the thousands of show i've seen since the 60's, this one- was the best!!!!!!
It may be false, it may be true but I could not care less! I have loved Buffy Sainte-Marie since 'It's My Way' and I will always love her. She has done so much for people who have so little. Just leave her alone, she's an old lady. XX
Her son has been paid off by the Jew hit piece squad. What he said doesn't explain her high cheekbones or that she looked the same way as a little girl.@@rozalilu1
Still touching our souls. The music beats in our ♥️. She is a kindred spirit never to be silenced. Her songs are blended into the winds. Our Native blood 🩸 will forever be woven into the earth, each step a indention in time immortal.
Well, research the history of Buffy - she is the one who wrote "Universal Soldier" - and got banned from many radio stations (in the US) ... and being a First Nations person in Canada is not exactly an asset ... but I do agree, this should be Sask's anthem :-)
many many years ago my gggggg grandfather had to flee fron scotia to france and then the Americas with the result that myg ggrandfather ended living with the sichangu Lakota my ggrandfather who returned to this country was thwe result of a liason with his father and a Lakota woman there has to be some ancestral memories cos buffys music is so powerful to me
Robroy Mayo most of the redcoat soldiers in george the thirds armies were german troops in fact most of the british hanoverian house could not not spealk english
I first heard this song on CKUA Radio here in Calgary and recognised the area of Qu'appelle Valley, Saskatchewan! I have hitchhiked through there and could feel the spirit there! I was so taken by this... Thank You Grandmother Hatsue for teaching me how to feel, be and know how to be human! I appreciated you sending my other valued mentor: Ngọc Lan Trân! She taught me so much being human, Autism Spectrum Deficits and patiently showing me that social skills can be learned(however slowly... I just wish she could have been open to learning from me too)!
Buffy, me an my friend tok back over traditions, tanks to y! But as the time have gone, other have got all the prices. No im coming back to where im born and take back the handcraft who took 3 years of my life! Not all my people did take my heart in the beginning, but its go forward. Im a young man no at 67, nearly 68, but most of my time go to my samiid handcraft. Every thing i make, have to be nearly perfekt. I can handle, reindeerhorn( nearly the same as Cariboo) silver, steel, tree, leather and skin.
May the four elements of the world pay homage to this bearer of truth EARTH,WATER,WIND,FIRE ! Must acknowledge the eternal values conveyed in the expressions amplified by the power that is Buffy Sainte-Marie !
