1. Frances Densmore
  3. Ȟpečášni Uŋspéič’ičhiyapi
  4. Frances Densmore

Frances Densmore

Date arrived: 
May 21st 1867
Arrived in: 
Red Wing, MN, USA
Date departed: 
Jun 5th 1957
Departed from: 
Red Wing, MN, USA
Other Names: 
Ptesáŋ Núŋpa Wíŋ

Contributed to

  • 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 look for them" (1913)
    This was sung by Old Buffalo and a companion in the afterglow of nightfall, as they crept through a creek toward a Crow village where they hoped to steal horses.