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National Anthem Sung in Lakota at Boys State A Tourney

By Cory Allen Heidelberger on 2018-03-18

Kevin Phillips, PA guy at the Boys Class A State Basketball tournament this weekend in Rapid City, shares this video of the National Anthem sung by Steven Wilson from Red Cloud in Lakota:

No diva pretense, no vocal pyrotechnics, just a man humbly honoring his country in his native language. I’ll stand for that rendition.

Published in South Dakota

18 Comments

  1. Jim in DC 2018-03-18 10:22

    Absolutely beautiful!

  2. grudgenutz 2018-03-18 10:28

    This being a christian nation and all, wouldn’t it be better to keep the nation ditty in Haysooce’s language, i.e., English?

  3. Buckobear 2018-03-18 11:50

    “the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”
    Treaty of Tripoli, 1796

  4. mike from iowa 2018-03-18 12:23

    Can’t see or hear the video. but it beats the haunting strains of the Russian anthem wherever Drumpf shows up.

    You’ve heard Kathy’s Clown, Micky’s Monkeys and now Putin’s Puppet.

  5. grudgenutz 2018-03-18 16:41

    Some folks are telling me this is the Lakota Flag Song, not the Star Spangled Banner.

  6. Dana P 2018-03-18 16:44

    This is great!

  7. Loren 2018-03-18 17:10

    “Some folks say…” Where have we heard that phrase before??

  8. Caroline 2018-03-18 17:54

    This is absolutely beautiful. Thank you for posting this.

  9. Debbo 2018-03-18 20:53

    Really well done. The Lakota language has a beautiful sound without the harshness of some English words. There are some similarities to the sound of Pashtun.

    It’s really nice to hear the anthem in another language. It makes it feel new again, refreshed and stronger. I always enjoy hearing it in Spanish, German, Swahili, Arabic and others. It seems like they all wind together to produce a gorgeous choral harmonic sound. 😊😊😊

  10. T 2018-03-18 22:30

    I speak Lakota there a part in there he ads lib and says
    “Tell ole sarge we r still discriminated against” I think that’s what I heard anyway

  11. Debbo 2018-03-18 23:51

    😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

  12. Cory Allen Heidelberger Post author | 2018-03-19 05:57

    If YouTube is to be trusted, the Lakota Flag Song is a very different Lakota song. What we hear above is clearly Francis Scott Key’s music set to Lakota words.

  13. T 2018-03-19 08:27

    Carla Leingang from Sisseton can probably verify if it’s that desperate to prove

  14. OldSarg 2018-03-19 09:23

    It’s ok “T”. I still thought it was good.

  16. Jenny 2018-03-19 12:30

    This was very beautiful and I am just sooo surprised that in SD they actually let the Lakota man sing the Anthem in Lakota. What an historic moment.

  17. Cory Allen Heidelberger Post author | 2018-03-19 16:40

    Ah! Music by John Stafford Smith, sampled by Key! Thanks for the correction, Buckobear!

  18. Valerie McDonald 2018-03-19 18:24

    And a beautiful voice to boot.

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