1. Robert High Eagle
  2. Robert High Eagle

Robert High Eagle

Date arrived: 
Approx. May 1875
Date departed: 
Sep 21st 1938
Departed from: 
Fort Yates, ND, USA
Other Names: 
Waŋblí Waŋkátuya (Lakota)

Contributed to

  • Song concerning a message from Washington (1911)
  • Song for securing fair weather (1911)
    This song, passed down from Dreamer-of-the-Sun, was sung by medicine-men to pray for fair weather before the sun dance. Sweetgrass was offered to the earth, sky, and the four directions, and then singed over coals.
  • Song of the Crow and Owl (1911)
    This song came to Šiyáka during his his haŋbléčheya, when he was guided to a village by a man in the form of a crow. In the chief's tent he met another man in the form of an owl, who taught Šiyáka to look up and befriend the winged ones for protection.
  • Song in honor of John Grass (1912)
    An honor song sung for Chief John Grass at a 1912 summer gathering at Standing Rock, using a grass-dance melody.
  • "I am the fox" (1913)
    On a blizzardy day around 1873, a war party found themselves surrounded by Crows. Old Buffalo sang this Fox society song to encourage his party through the day-long battle.