University of Saskatchewan Honour Song

This honour song, posted by the University of Saskatchewan was composed by the late Tyrone Tootoosis. Tootoosis was approached following traditional First Nations protocol, to create a song making reference to “A Treaty Right to Education.”

http://aboriginal.usask.ca/about/first-nation-and-metis-relations.php#Music

kīhci kiskinohamāsowin


Higher Education
kîhci kiskinohamâtôwikamikᑮᐦᒋ ᑭᐢᑭᓄᐦᐊᒫᑑᐏᑲᒥᐠAn Institution of Higher Learning
ê-kî-asotamâkawiyâhᐁᑮᐊᓱᑕᒫᑲᐏᔮᐦA Treaty Right & Promise to Education
Let us give a War Cry to Celebrate and Rejoice
pasikô âcihowin- ᐸᓯᑰ ᐋᒋᐦᐅᐏᐣOur Individual and Collective Journeys in Seeking Independence

One Response

  1. Thank you. As for learning this song it ,ay happen in many ways. You can say the words as a part of a land acknowledgement, learning the phrases as an act of reconciliation, write creatively to describe what this songs means to you, dance to it or post it up on your door.

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