WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.520 --> 00:00:03.220 You heard Simu singing 2 00:00:03.839 --> 00:00:10.339 some pit river medicine songs. I think it might be worth commenting right here about the text, some of them. 3 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:14.099 You heard one of them saying that I'm a vulture, but I'm a hermaphrodite 4 00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:14.980 vulture, 5 00:00:15.584 --> 00:00:18.404 or I'm a head I'm a head rolling down a hill. 6 00:00:19.105 --> 00:00:24.085 Then again, you hear others where you say, I'm when it's when it's when it's I'm tracking the disease. 7 00:00:25.024 --> 00:00:27.149 There's there's certain kind. I think you can distinguish 8 00:00:27.949 --> 00:00:33.090 the kinds that are result from the personal vision quest, the wandering as I, 9 00:00:33.710 --> 00:00:36.049 talked about and Tommy described briefly. 10 00:00:36.670 --> 00:00:46.825 You must remember that these people, the men and women, are fasting, and they go out there for days, and they act they try to act like wild beings. They try to attract the attention of the wild ones. 11 00:00:47.445 --> 00:00:50.265 And so, like, by the time their 12 00:00:50.645 --> 00:00:51.625 helpers, their 13 00:00:52.405 --> 00:00:53.545 come to them, 14 00:00:54.005 --> 00:00:54.664 I guess 15 00:00:55.045 --> 00:00:58.265 they're you know, it's a hermitaph hermaphrodite vulture. And 16 00:00:58.645 --> 00:01:02.960 that's the thing about shamanism. It's it's a it's wild and it's 17 00:01:04.459 --> 00:01:07.759 as the poet Robert Duncan several weeks ago was saying, it crosses 18 00:01:08.379 --> 00:01:09.920 all the lines, sex lines, 19 00:01:10.379 --> 00:01:11.200 race lines, 20 00:01:12.459 --> 00:01:13.599 human animal lines, 21 00:01:14.625 --> 00:01:16.724 animal vegetable mineral lines. 22 00:01:17.584 --> 00:01:28.965 Anyway, the doctor sign songs are, I think, slightly different from the personal power songs in that they seem to tend to more or less describe, say, you know, the function of curing it. You know, I'm tracking the disease. 23 00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:33.619 Anyway, I wanted to point out that distinction. We're now gonna go on and hear, 24 00:01:34.079 --> 00:01:34.739 an actual 25 00:01:35.119 --> 00:01:37.619 well, not an actual, but Jaime's just description 26 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:40.420 of a Pit River curing ceremony. 27 00:01:40.799 --> 00:01:43.219 And the doctor in this case is Lun, 28 00:01:43.834 --> 00:01:46.715 and she is curing in the traditional Pit River way, which is, 29 00:01:47.834 --> 00:01:55.295 singing to her spirit helpers or animal helpers who come in the air over her. She interrogates them through 30 00:01:55.689 --> 00:02:00.430 another person, in this case, Aurel, I believe, who's out in the fields, who acts as a quote interpreter. 31 00:02:01.129 --> 00:02:03.310 And so you get a dialogue between 32 00:02:03.609 --> 00:02:04.109 the 33 00:02:04.569 --> 00:02:05.150 the shamanists 34 00:02:05.609 --> 00:02:09.069 and the her animal helpers, and they go and find 35 00:02:09.689 --> 00:02:14.245 the problem and come back and help the shamanist diagnose the cure and the disease. 36 00:02:15.264 --> 00:02:16.645 I think here too, besides 37 00:02:18.384 --> 00:02:22.324 the sheer musical quality of the singing and of the curing performance, 38 00:02:23.025 --> 00:02:26.159 you'll also have to agree that Jaime at his 39 00:02:26.639 --> 00:02:29.060 storytelling skills is at his very best 40 00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:30.260 in this, 41 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:31.939 next episode. 42 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:35.620 When evening arrived, 43 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:37.139 again, the Salamander 44 00:02:37.439 --> 00:02:37.939 woman 45 00:02:38.480 --> 00:02:40.580 acted just like the loon doctor. 46 00:02:41.485 --> 00:02:44.305 She sent Oreo to the edge of the brush 47 00:02:44.685 --> 00:02:46.064 to call her, then 48 00:02:47.724 --> 00:02:49.185 she started a song. 49 00:03:12.294 --> 00:03:14.474 She sang in a very deep voice. 50 00:03:15.254 --> 00:03:16.155 All the antelopes 51 00:03:16.534 --> 00:03:17.834 got the song immediately, 52 00:03:18.534 --> 00:03:24.280 and they all sang in unison with her, swaying and shaking their shoulders in rhythm. 53 00:03:25.219 --> 00:03:28.280 None of the crane people even tried to join in. 54 00:03:28.740 --> 00:03:31.159 They had never heard singing of that kind. 55 00:03:31.860 --> 00:03:33.764 They didn't know what it was all about. 56 00:03:34.965 --> 00:03:36.664 When the salah man or woman 57 00:03:36.965 --> 00:03:38.664 clapped her hands for silence, 58 00:03:39.444 --> 00:03:40.584 everybody listened. 59 00:03:41.444 --> 00:03:44.344 The frogs and toads by the banks of the river 60 00:03:44.645 --> 00:03:45.625 could be heard. 61 00:03:46.245 --> 00:03:49.560 They too seemed to have joined the rhythm of the song. 62 00:03:50.419 --> 00:03:52.120 Then in the darkness overhead, 63 00:03:52.740 --> 00:03:57.159 that same whirring noise, like the swooping of the night hawk, 64 00:03:58.099 --> 00:04:01.000 and mixed with it, a rattling noise. 65 00:04:01.925 --> 00:04:02.905 Then Salamander 66 00:04:03.525 --> 00:04:04.025 cried 67 00:04:04.485 --> 00:04:06.185 just the way Loon had 68 00:04:06.564 --> 00:04:08.025 with all y'all repeating 69 00:04:08.324 --> 00:04:09.625 everything she said. 70 00:04:10.965 --> 00:04:11.705 My mother, 71 00:04:12.644 --> 00:04:13.544 I'm here. 72 00:04:13.939 --> 00:04:15.080 You called me. 73 00:04:15.539 --> 00:04:16.600 I heard you. 74 00:04:17.139 --> 00:04:20.279 I was sending myself very far from here, 75 00:04:20.899 --> 00:04:22.759 but I heard you when I came. 76 00:04:23.540 --> 00:04:25.000 What do you want of me? 77 00:04:26.884 --> 00:04:28.664 There is a sick child here, 78 00:04:29.365 --> 00:04:31.225 and I want you to help me. 79 00:04:32.084 --> 00:04:33.464 But where are the others? 80 00:04:33.925 --> 00:04:35.225 Where is bull snake? 81 00:04:35.685 --> 00:04:37.144 Where is stripes snake? 82 00:04:37.764 --> 00:04:39.625 Where is green and red snake? 83 00:04:40.189 --> 00:04:42.209 Go and call them. Go. 84 00:04:44.269 --> 00:04:46.129 Go. Then she sang again, 85 00:04:46.430 --> 00:04:47.729 and all the antelopes 86 00:04:48.029 --> 00:04:49.329 joined in as before. 87 00:04:50.509 --> 00:04:53.009 Some of the crane people were looking scared, 88 00:04:53.789 --> 00:04:55.409 and two or three of them 89 00:04:55.754 --> 00:04:57.215 slipped away in the darkness. 90 00:04:58.715 --> 00:05:01.295 Once more, she clapped her hands for silence, 91 00:05:02.074 --> 00:05:04.735 and now the noise overhead was like a den. 92 00:05:05.835 --> 00:05:08.415 Salome had started again to call out. 93 00:05:08.875 --> 00:05:09.855 She was speaking 94 00:05:10.709 --> 00:05:13.209 fast. The words were almost jumbled up. 95 00:05:13.829 --> 00:05:20.009 Her sentences came quickly, one right after the other, giving Aureole hardly time to repeat. 96 00:05:20.709 --> 00:05:24.089 And the salamander woman's voice was changing constantly. 97 00:05:25.264 --> 00:05:27.524 Now it was high pitched and fluting. 98 00:05:27.985 --> 00:05:29.444 Now it was deep again. 99 00:05:29.985 --> 00:05:31.444 Now it was like a shriek. 100 00:05:32.384 --> 00:05:35.284 All the old girl was having a hard time repeating. 101 00:05:35.985 --> 00:05:37.685 She couldn't catch all of it, 102 00:05:38.064 --> 00:05:39.044 but the sunset 103 00:05:39.389 --> 00:05:41.649 tracks man came to her help. 104 00:05:42.189 --> 00:05:44.850 He repeated some of the calls and answers. 105 00:05:45.470 --> 00:05:46.689 It was like pandemonium. 106 00:05:48.750 --> 00:05:49.810 Where is rattlesnake? 107 00:05:50.910 --> 00:05:53.729 I'm here, my mother. Can't you hear me? 108 00:05:54.794 --> 00:05:57.615 I'm your bull snake, my mother. I'm here. 109 00:05:58.394 --> 00:05:59.134 My mother, 110 00:05:59.435 --> 00:06:03.055 make this little snake here shut up. He's lying to you. 111 00:06:04.074 --> 00:06:08.894 I'm not lying. I tell you I was talking to Raven on top of the big mountain. 112 00:06:09.349 --> 00:06:12.089 He says there is porcupine mixed up in it. 113 00:06:12.470 --> 00:06:16.089 Oh, go on. What have porcupine's got to do with it? 114 00:06:16.470 --> 00:06:20.490 Shut up, I tell you. I'm not talking to you. I'm talking to our mother. 115 00:06:21.829 --> 00:06:22.649 Then Sadamada 116 00:06:23.029 --> 00:06:24.250 gave a long shriek 117 00:06:24.904 --> 00:06:26.524 and killed over backwards. 118 00:06:27.785 --> 00:06:31.564 The few trained people who had been brave enough to remain 119 00:06:32.024 --> 00:06:33.805 then skipped out on the run. 120 00:06:34.985 --> 00:06:35.805 The antelopes 121 00:06:36.345 --> 00:06:37.644 then followed a blanket 122 00:06:38.339 --> 00:06:39.720 and covered the salamander, 123 00:06:40.819 --> 00:06:42.680 and everybody went to bed. 124 00:06:42.980 --> 00:06:44.600 Sunset Track said, 125 00:06:45.620 --> 00:06:47.319 that's what I call doctoring, 126 00:06:47.860 --> 00:06:48.839 real doctoring, 127 00:06:49.939 --> 00:06:52.279 not that other kind of mumbo jumbo. 128 00:06:54.245 --> 00:06:58.425 That was a description of Pit River doctrine of, salamander, 129 00:06:59.524 --> 00:07:01.305 curing one of the antelope girls. 130 00:07:03.045 --> 00:07:05.944 Next, we're gonna hear Tsimu now discussing 131 00:07:07.045 --> 00:07:14.639 hunting songs among the Pit River. He wakes up and he's humming a hunting song. And in the course of this, you will, hear him sing again 132 00:07:15.259 --> 00:07:16.000 the song 133 00:07:16.860 --> 00:07:18.960 of the Shasta, which we had heard previously. 134 00:07:19.500 --> 00:07:23.600 And in this tape, it is identified as having been sung by the Paiutes, 135 00:07:24.379 --> 00:07:28.375 which, could cause some confusion, but, it is a Shasta song. 136 00:07:29.555 --> 00:07:32.615 And so now we'll hear about the 137 00:07:32.995 --> 00:07:37.814 the way song fit into the hunting life of the Pit River people. 138 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:42.740 All the bear party were sleeping outdoors 139 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:44.100 at this village 140 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:45.699 of Kitzkrai, 141 00:07:46.399 --> 00:07:47.540 and that morning, 142 00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:48.899 Cemu 143 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:51.620 was humming a song in the dawn. 144 00:08:57.235 --> 00:09:03.014 Fox called over from where he and Aureole were bundled under the same rabbit skin blanket. 145 00:09:04.409 --> 00:09:06.829 Is that what you sing to your shadow? 146 00:09:08.169 --> 00:09:09.389 Tsimu laughed. 147 00:09:10.329 --> 00:09:10.829 Yes. 148 00:09:11.370 --> 00:09:14.509 My shadow is a deer, a five point adea, 149 00:09:15.049 --> 00:09:16.669 and I'm singing to him. 150 00:09:17.529 --> 00:09:18.029 Now 151 00:09:18.725 --> 00:09:21.225 that's a hunting song from the North Country. 152 00:09:22.245 --> 00:09:25.704 It just came into my mind. I don't know why. 153 00:09:26.725 --> 00:09:27.625 Fox said, 154 00:09:28.565 --> 00:09:31.225 I thought the dear song of the North Country 155 00:09:31.684 --> 00:09:33.625 was that oldest one. 156 00:09:34.250 --> 00:09:35.070 Let's see. 157 00:09:35.769 --> 00:09:37.309 How does it go, Aureole? 158 00:10:10.189 --> 00:10:11.490 Yes. That's it. 159 00:10:12.189 --> 00:10:14.565 That's what the antelopes of the desert 160 00:10:15.044 --> 00:10:15.544 country 161 00:10:16.085 --> 00:10:22.585 who were traveling with us, that's what they were singing when they came back after killing the buck. 162 00:10:23.845 --> 00:10:25.225 Yes. That's right. 163 00:10:25.684 --> 00:10:27.210 After killing the buck, 164 00:10:27.769 --> 00:10:28.830 but not before. 165 00:10:29.850 --> 00:10:31.470 That's a victory song. 166 00:10:32.570 --> 00:10:33.389 Can no 167 00:10:48.334 --> 00:10:50.434 But that's not what we sing before 168 00:10:50.815 --> 00:10:52.034 we kill the deer. 169 00:10:52.575 --> 00:10:54.995 We sing songs to call him. 170 00:10:55.750 --> 00:10:59.450 I know several of those songs. There are lots of them. 171 00:11:00.629 --> 00:11:01.129 Then, 172 00:11:01.750 --> 00:11:04.809 after we have brought him home in the evening, 173 00:11:05.269 --> 00:11:07.930 we sing another song to his shadow, 174 00:11:08.375 --> 00:11:09.754 to the deer's shadow. 175 00:11:10.455 --> 00:11:12.714 Just so he won't hang around 176 00:11:13.174 --> 00:11:14.315 with bad feelings. 177 00:11:15.254 --> 00:11:15.754 Well, 178 00:11:16.455 --> 00:11:19.434 just as we do with people we have killed in war. 179 00:11:20.375 --> 00:11:21.754 Deer have got shadows 180 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:23.820 just like you and me. 181 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:27.420 So you say something like this to him. 182 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:29.340 I killed you 183 00:11:29.720 --> 00:11:30.220 brother. 184 00:11:30.840 --> 00:11:32.139 I couldn't help it. 185 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:34.220 I had to feed my children. 186 00:11:34.600 --> 00:11:36.644 You say things like that to him. 187 00:11:37.664 --> 00:11:38.804 Like this song. 188 00:13:35.215 --> 00:13:40.514 We just heard Simu talking about Pit River hunting songs, and we just heard him singing one. 189 00:13:40.830 --> 00:13:44.529 We're now gonna move and hear a description of the Pitt River girls' puberty, 190 00:13:45.149 --> 00:13:45.649 ceremony. 191 00:13:46.590 --> 00:13:52.450 I might mention that this, ceremony is more unique to the northern tribes, the Pitt River 192 00:13:52.990 --> 00:13:54.194 and the Shasta. 193 00:13:54.574 --> 00:13:56.194 The Pomo, for instance, don't 194 00:13:56.735 --> 00:14:02.514 have this or didn't have this. They had a a separate boys' initiation, which, Dan Gullo 195 00:14:02.975 --> 00:14:03.475 describes 196 00:14:03.855 --> 00:14:05.714 in another part of the old time stories. 197 00:14:06.574 --> 00:14:12.399 So, anyway, we'll go on now and hear about the puberty ceremony among the Pit River. 198 00:14:13.019 --> 00:14:14.399 In that place also, 199 00:14:14.779 --> 00:14:16.559 there was a big winter house. 200 00:14:18.299 --> 00:14:20.639 They found a lot of people gathered there 201 00:14:21.339 --> 00:14:21.839 because 202 00:14:22.539 --> 00:14:23.200 they were 203 00:14:23.884 --> 00:14:30.384 hold going to hold a puberty dance for one of the girls of that place who had just come of age. 204 00:14:31.085 --> 00:14:32.705 For a dance like that, 205 00:14:33.245 --> 00:14:34.225 they sent invitations 206 00:14:34.684 --> 00:14:38.000 around to all the villages that were near enough, 207 00:14:38.540 --> 00:14:41.440 and crowds of people came to have a good time. 208 00:14:42.379 --> 00:14:44.960 The dance was supposed to last ten nights, 209 00:14:45.660 --> 00:14:47.920 but it seldom did in reality. 210 00:14:49.259 --> 00:14:50.080 For instance, 211 00:14:50.654 --> 00:14:51.634 in this place, 212 00:14:52.254 --> 00:14:53.794 this was the fifth night, 213 00:14:54.174 --> 00:14:56.195 and the puberty girl was already 214 00:14:56.654 --> 00:14:58.914 worn out and half dead. 215 00:14:59.615 --> 00:15:02.834 She was supposed to dance all night until dawn. 216 00:15:03.695 --> 00:15:05.154 She didn't really dance. 217 00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:09.540 She just ran back and forth at a sort of dark trot, 218 00:15:10.160 --> 00:15:12.259 shaking a rattle of deer hooves. 219 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:15.779 She ran forward about 50 paces, 220 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:17.220 facing east, 221 00:15:17.600 --> 00:15:18.660 and then backwards 222 00:15:19.200 --> 00:15:20.740 without turning around, 223 00:15:21.415 --> 00:15:22.795 always facing east. 224 00:15:23.815 --> 00:15:25.434 All the people and visitors 225 00:15:25.894 --> 00:15:27.595 sang Pia Bate songs. 226 00:15:28.535 --> 00:15:30.875 This is a peculiar type of singing 227 00:15:31.335 --> 00:15:32.315 with a fast 228 00:15:32.855 --> 00:15:34.075 complex rhythms, 229 00:15:34.855 --> 00:15:35.490 something like 230 00:15:46.289 --> 00:15:46.789 this. 231 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:06.340 Another song of that type was 232 00:16:30.644 --> 00:16:31.384 third morning 233 00:16:31.845 --> 00:16:34.500 the poor girl would get so tired 234 00:16:35.440 --> 00:16:38.660 that two men would grab her under the arms 235 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:40.980 and drag her back and forth 236 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:42.980 at that same dark truck. 237 00:16:44.080 --> 00:16:48.660 Those two men must never be any relation to her, however distant. 238 00:16:50.054 --> 00:16:50.714 At dawn, 239 00:16:51.334 --> 00:16:53.115 the girl went out in the brush 240 00:16:53.574 --> 00:16:57.195 and hurled the deer hoof rattled toward the sunrise. 241 00:16:57.894 --> 00:16:59.995 Then they let us sleep a little, 242 00:17:00.774 --> 00:17:02.009 not very long. 243 00:17:03.029 --> 00:17:04.730 Very soon, some old woman 244 00:17:05.109 --> 00:17:06.410 related to her 245 00:17:07.029 --> 00:17:08.809 will come and shake her 246 00:17:09.269 --> 00:17:12.730 and make her go and search in the brush for her rattle. 247 00:17:13.605 --> 00:17:14.105 Then 248 00:17:14.884 --> 00:17:15.865 all day long, 249 00:17:16.325 --> 00:17:17.944 she has to gather firewood 250 00:17:18.244 --> 00:17:19.704 for that evening's dance. 251 00:17:21.125 --> 00:17:22.585 If she doesn't die, 252 00:17:23.285 --> 00:17:25.384 she'll become a full fledged woman. 253 00:17:26.244 --> 00:17:30.259 There'll be very little hardship that she won't be able to bear, 254 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:33.539 and she will live to be very, very old. 255 00:17:35.360 --> 00:17:36.340 But Aureole 256 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:38.580 wasn't very much impressed. 257 00:17:41.355 --> 00:17:44.335 We just heard a description of the Pit River puberty ceremony 258 00:17:44.795 --> 00:17:45.694 with a slight 259 00:17:46.075 --> 00:17:52.335 editorial twist there at the end. I wanna comment here that the text of these songs are very sexual 260 00:17:52.875 --> 00:17:55.054 and very interesting that way, 261 00:17:55.700 --> 00:17:59.720 among, say, Native American texts because they're rather unusual. 262 00:18:00.420 --> 00:18:02.920 You might remember that, Lin Tzu Lee Gandhuli 263 00:18:03.299 --> 00:18:06.119 Gandhuli song that he sang just now. 264 00:18:06.819 --> 00:18:10.039 Well, the text to that translated means roughly, 265 00:18:11.315 --> 00:18:12.375 floating downstream, 266 00:18:12.914 --> 00:18:16.055 let us too make love with our legs entangled. 267 00:18:18.515 --> 00:18:18.914 And, 268 00:18:20.195 --> 00:18:22.214 he adds a footnote here. This is 269 00:18:22.914 --> 00:18:38.714 typical. Contrary to the so called, quote, primitive method, that is to say, with the legs of the one on the shoulders of the other. The lovers in the song are supposed to be in a canoe. That's from, the Dan Gula article that I mentioned at the beginning of the show. Other texts of the 270 00:18:39.595 --> 00:18:44.414 the Pit River puberty songs go like this. I will go in circles following your scent. 271 00:18:45.674 --> 00:18:54.494 And it's, composed by a man who has smelled evidently the menstrual scent of the woman and is following, looking for her by going in concentric circles. 272 00:18:54.910 --> 00:18:59.170 Another song says, you are scornful, but your skirts are too short. 273 00:19:00.109 --> 00:19:06.529 And Dangolo says, all these songs are very old. I don't think they're still being composed now. 274 00:19:07.684 --> 00:19:09.384 We will now go on to hear 275 00:19:09.724 --> 00:19:10.224 a 276 00:19:10.565 --> 00:19:14.424 brief description also of a sort of small war ceremony 277 00:19:15.444 --> 00:19:21.869 of the Pit River. And you might keep in mind too that this perhaps may be applicable also to the Modoc who were 278 00:19:22.430 --> 00:19:24.609 western neighbors of the Pitt River and, 279 00:19:25.630 --> 00:19:26.130 attacked 280 00:19:26.509 --> 00:19:28.609 them and fought with them quite a bit. 281 00:19:29.789 --> 00:19:33.250 They will sing a war song and will discuss describe a brief ceremony. 282 00:19:34.625 --> 00:19:36.484 Then if we won the fight, 283 00:19:36.865 --> 00:19:41.444 we cut the ears of the slain enemies and took them home for the expiation 284 00:19:41.744 --> 00:19:42.244 dance. 285 00:19:43.024 --> 00:19:48.804 We always held an expiation dance for the shadows of the killed enemies to appease them 286 00:19:49.105 --> 00:19:52.899 so they they should not come later on and bother us in our dreams. 287 00:19:53.839 --> 00:19:57.700 We would string the ears we had cut off the slain enemies. 288 00:19:58.079 --> 00:19:59.940 We would string them on a wand 289 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:02.579 and hold them out toward the fire, 290 00:20:03.279 --> 00:20:04.419 and we sang. 291 00:20:30.869 --> 00:20:31.609 That was 292 00:20:32.035 --> 00:20:37.494 a description of the Pit River war songs. Now we're going to turn to the pomo. 293 00:20:38.835 --> 00:20:41.654 And this was, one of D'Angolo's other 294 00:20:42.035 --> 00:20:43.575 great loves, these people. 295 00:20:44.035 --> 00:20:48.789 He had a very close friend, William Benson, who told him a good deal is material. So 296 00:20:49.410 --> 00:20:50.630 Jaime knew the Pomo, 297 00:20:51.170 --> 00:20:51.650 perhaps 298 00:20:52.130 --> 00:20:54.150 and almost as well as he knew the Pit River. 299 00:20:54.849 --> 00:20:55.830 And the Pomo 300 00:20:56.210 --> 00:21:02.725 live in several areas. They live on the coast up near Punta Arena up that far up towards Lake Mendocino 301 00:21:03.345 --> 00:21:06.404 inland, and they live also around the Clear Lake area. 302 00:21:06.785 --> 00:21:08.005 And I believe Jaime's, 303 00:21:08.545 --> 00:21:09.045 knowledge 304 00:21:09.345 --> 00:21:13.000 is based mostly on the Clear Lake pomo. We're gonna hear hear something, 305 00:21:14.500 --> 00:21:16.679 which he sings in English and is 306 00:21:17.299 --> 00:21:23.174 could be disputable what exactly it is. But since it's bear singing and I included in the pomo section, 307 00:21:24.295 --> 00:21:27.914 I imagine it was definitely a part of the life. And 308 00:21:28.295 --> 00:21:28.955 I can't 309 00:21:29.335 --> 00:21:31.414 tell you anything about what he sings, but, 310 00:21:32.215 --> 00:21:36.955 I'll let him speak for himself. It is about singing for one's shadow when one wakes up in the morning. 311 00:21:38.840 --> 00:21:40.059 The next morning, 312 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:42.539 Bear woke up early 313 00:21:43.400 --> 00:21:45.660 long before the sun was up. 314 00:21:46.759 --> 00:21:50.539 It was just the very beginning of the break of dawn 315 00:21:51.384 --> 00:21:52.765 when Bear sat up 316 00:21:53.384 --> 00:21:54.924 and started to sing. 317 00:21:56.345 --> 00:21:58.605 He was singing softly to himself, 318 00:21:59.545 --> 00:22:00.525 sort of humming. 319 00:22:02.105 --> 00:22:03.085 I'm coming, 320 00:22:03.970 --> 00:22:04.710 I'm coming 321 00:22:05.169 --> 00:22:06.309 over the mountains. 322 00:22:06.609 --> 00:22:07.669 I come home. 323 00:22:08.690 --> 00:22:09.750 I'm coming. 324 00:22:10.609 --> 00:22:11.429 I'm coming 325 00:22:12.210 --> 00:22:14.389 with the daylight. I come home. 326 00:22:15.490 --> 00:22:16.389 I'm coming. 327 00:22:17.294 --> 00:22:18.835 I'm coming. From 328 00:22:19.534 --> 00:22:20.355 the east, 329 00:22:20.734 --> 00:22:21.714 I come home. 330 00:22:23.454 --> 00:22:24.514 Then he got up 331 00:22:25.214 --> 00:22:26.595 and stretched himself 332 00:22:27.534 --> 00:22:30.194 and went to the spring to wash his face. 333 00:22:31.309 --> 00:22:32.849 Then he started a campfire, 334 00:22:33.789 --> 00:22:35.650 and it was yet all dark. 335 00:22:37.150 --> 00:22:39.089 Then he started to cook breakfast. 336 00:22:40.430 --> 00:22:42.289 He was hitting stones, 337 00:22:42.750 --> 00:22:44.130 small round stones. 338 00:22:46.514 --> 00:22:47.014 Mother, 339 00:22:48.194 --> 00:22:49.815 what was he singing about? 340 00:22:50.914 --> 00:22:54.214 Who is that man he said was coming over the mountains 341 00:22:54.674 --> 00:22:55.654 from the East 342 00:22:56.274 --> 00:22:57.654 singing with the daylight? 343 00:22:59.779 --> 00:23:02.200 Oh, he was singing about his shadow. 344 00:23:03.380 --> 00:23:05.640 That song is what the shadow sings. 345 00:23:07.140 --> 00:23:08.599 Your shadow also, 346 00:23:09.619 --> 00:23:15.255 you must sing to him that way in the morning. Everybody's shadow 347 00:23:15.555 --> 00:23:17.015 comes home in the dawn 348 00:23:17.795 --> 00:23:19.015 singing like that. 349 00:23:20.914 --> 00:23:22.934 But what do you mean comes home? 350 00:23:24.115 --> 00:23:24.615 Sure. 351 00:23:25.429 --> 00:23:27.049 He comes home to you. 352 00:23:27.589 --> 00:23:28.890 Your shadow does. 353 00:23:29.669 --> 00:23:30.730 You are his home. 354 00:23:32.470 --> 00:23:33.769 But where has he been? 355 00:23:35.509 --> 00:23:38.650 Oh, he's been going around during the night, 356 00:23:39.349 --> 00:23:39.765 visiting, 357 00:23:53.525 --> 00:23:54.105 That's why 358 00:23:54.950 --> 00:23:56.970 That's why your father was singing. 359 00:23:57.990 --> 00:23:59.769 We are in a strange place. 360 00:24:00.390 --> 00:24:03.849 His shadow might be wandering around looking for him. 361 00:24:05.029 --> 00:24:06.250 But if the shadow 362 00:24:06.630 --> 00:24:07.769 hears him singing, 363 00:24:08.115 --> 00:24:09.494 he says to himself, 364 00:24:11.154 --> 00:24:13.095 oh, that's me over there. 365 00:24:13.555 --> 00:24:14.855 That's where I belong. 366 00:24:17.315 --> 00:24:18.694 And if he gets lost, 367 00:24:19.634 --> 00:24:20.855 what happens then? 368 00:24:21.795 --> 00:24:24.150 When you get sick and you die, 369 00:24:24.849 --> 00:24:26.549 you can't keep on living 370 00:24:26.930 --> 00:24:28.150 without your shadow. 371 00:24:30.289 --> 00:24:32.150 Fox boy thought a moment. 372 00:24:32.690 --> 00:24:33.670 Then he said, 373 00:24:34.690 --> 00:24:38.390 but father is not going to die because he was singing. 374 00:24:39.275 --> 00:24:41.134 And his shadow must have heard him. 375 00:24:41.835 --> 00:24:42.734 That's right. 376 00:24:44.394 --> 00:24:45.134 Well then, 377 00:24:45.914 --> 00:24:47.454 I had better sing too, 378 00:24:47.914 --> 00:24:49.934 so that my shadow hears me. 379 00:24:51.434 --> 00:24:53.579 Do you think you can remember the song? 380 00:24:54.460 --> 00:24:54.960 Listen. 381 00:24:55.500 --> 00:24:56.720 We'll sing it together. 382 00:24:58.380 --> 00:24:59.599 I'm coming. 383 00:25:00.380 --> 00:25:01.279 I'm coming. 384 00:25:02.140 --> 00:25:04.319 Over the mountains, I come home. 385 00:25:05.500 --> 00:25:06.399 I'm coming. 386 00:25:07.204 --> 00:25:07.704 I'm 387 00:25:08.005 --> 00:25:08.505 coming. 388 00:25:08.805 --> 00:25:10.904 With a daylight I come home. 389 00:25:11.924 --> 00:25:12.984 I'm coming. 390 00:25:13.445 --> 00:25:14.424 I'm coming 391 00:25:14.884 --> 00:25:15.625 from these. 392 00:25:16.325 --> 00:25:17.384 I come home. 393 00:25:19.204 --> 00:25:20.025 Now look, 394 00:25:20.565 --> 00:25:24.009 we had better get up and had Bear cook breakfast. 395 00:25:26.309 --> 00:25:34.650 Next, we're gonna hear a general discussion of the some of the characteristics of Pomo singing, and he will also talk about the round dances. 396 00:25:36.474 --> 00:25:36.974 Grizzly 397 00:25:39.034 --> 00:25:40.014 said, Bear, 398 00:25:40.954 --> 00:25:42.575 sing another le hooja. 399 00:25:43.595 --> 00:25:44.494 Bear said, 400 00:25:45.514 --> 00:25:47.934 listen, fellow. I'm not a rock man. 401 00:25:49.514 --> 00:25:51.774