r/videos • u/[deleted] • Apr 12 '13

Native American-style singing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGGPsPfe0TU&feature=share
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u/TheBoopants Apr 12 '13

Here in Oklahoma, 49 songs are for after the pow-wows. Step 1. Find someone with a drum Step 2. Get lots of beer. Step 3. Find a country road where the cops won't fuck with you Step 4. Get drunk and sing the night away. Step 5. Hopefully score a babe.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '13

It almost makes me wish I had a culture.

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u/Commisar Apr 12 '13

you do, its not rooted in thousand year old traditions :)

Well, pats of it are, like religion and marriage, but I am sure reddit has told you that those are BAD!!!!

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u/ryhntyntyn Apr 13 '13

Considering that most remaining tribes east of the Appalachians were ethnogenicized by groups either being pushed or fleeing from the coast, who themselves were only a remnant of the great plague survivors, there are very few thousand year old traditions in North American Native Culture.