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 | |
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kîhci kiskinohamâtôwikamik | ᑮᐦᒋ ᑭᐢᑭᓄᐦᐊᒫᑑᐏᑲᒥᐠ | An Institution of Higher Learning |
ê-kî-asotamâkawiyâh | ᐁᑮᐊᓱᑕᒫᑲᐏᔮᐦ | A Treaty Right & Promise to Education |
Let us give a War Cry to Celebrate and Rejoice | ||
pasikô âcihowin- | ᐸᓯᑰ ᐋᒋᐦᐅᐏᐣ | Our Individual and Collective Journeys in Seeking Independence |