Tent of Many Voices: 06100503

good afternoon everyone and welcome to the core of Discovery 2 in the tent of many voices this tent has been set up as an opportunity for us to learn from different individuals with different backgrounds different areas of expertise also gives us a chance to hear different sides different aspects of the lwis and Clark Story also gives us a chance to learn about the people that LS and Clark met as they were heading Westward today we are very fortunate to have with us Daryl shortman who is a member of the grant tribe they would refer to themselves as the white clay people we today call them Grant and he is from Fort bellnap or a member of the fort bellnap reservation and lives in Hayes Montana he's going to do some flute music for us today if you would please help me welcome Daryl shortman thank you um all this music I do is um it's all original except uh I just started doing um like the Amazing Grace that's the only one that's not mine and um it's a really a beautiful song so I I had to go and decide to put it on a flute it's other artists have done it but I want to be one of those kind of artists that you know I want to outdo everybody and make it um real good but today um I'm I'm starting a new um presentation I I've been adding some stuff to my my presentation and um today I'm going to do a a good song that I'm I'm working on I'm I'm learning how to speak it my own language and I'm I'm I'm learning how to sing it and it's called you know the Lord's Prayer and this is my version of how the Creator told me that the way I should play it you know and no one else that I known is that all the plutus I know they haven't done this song but but I'm going to be the first one to do it you know but this is my version of The Lord's Prayer for d this um this next song I like do Frey was um it's called coco p and um I'll play it for you then I'll I'll tell you what I'm what I'm playing about the n Coco Pell played on and on and if you hadn't been so lost in his song he would have heard the sound of water dripping off the branches all around him or the steady thumping as huge loads of snow slid off the tired limbs little by little the snow reach receded revealing tiny patches of the new green grass which got bigger and bigger as more of the snow melted one by one Birds started joining in on cocap Pell's song until it was a whole chorus that was chirping right along the other animals started peeking out from behind bushes and trees they were all over they were all Overjoyed that spring had finally come to their part of the forest they were very timid and they were very frightened at first they came out of the clearing where cocelli started playing still unaware of the effect of his music when cocelli stopped he found himself surrounded by happy thankful animals and all the snow and all the cold was gone he looked around and he was astonished until he realized what had happened a great elk who was one of the bravest of the forest forest daughters summoned up his courage and stepped forward we who dwell in this Forest thank you she said he said for Chasing The Long Winter away thank you this um this next song I'm doing is um I wrote this one myself and it's um I really don't have a name for it so I just call it the Drifter you know cuz um I moov around quite a bit and that's how I I create a lot of my a lot of my music is uh through experience through emotions you know through tragedy through happiness you know that's this is how I make my music and um this one here I I just call it the Drifter and like to play it for St e I greet the Sun raise of a new day as the south wind Combs through my hair caressing my wondering spirit I am like the wind always going someplace another Journey that only I know the destination forever wandering searching for an answer that will cease my spiritual wonderand lust to become still with patience looking for results on The Westward wind an answer for my wandering soul to plant my soul on a calm windless day I've met cooko pelli on my Journeys his face was windburn as fine dust outlined the map of Journeys that Mark his face he's tired and he's played out a rock is his pillow the wind is his blanket the stars are his nightlight as a Restless prayer caresses this blue parched lips this um this next song I like to do for you it's um it's it's a Mother Earth Song and it's pretty uh pretty sad about what's going on with the Earth nowadays you know we're not we're not taking care of her you know and she's she's mad at us you know cuz we're polluting the rivers you're Raising Cane with the ozone layer and just bad things are happening and she's angry with us you know so we have to start taking care of her if we don't take care of her you know she's going to really uh release her fury on us and like she's doing now and and it's going to get scarier and scarier but this song Here is called the Mother Earth's song to me if this is a really a sacred song for me because this is the first song that I've I've I've taught myself how to play you know and it really means a lot to me oh this um next song on DPR was um the hand drumar with me my drum got moist wet today and I don't know if it's going to work sounded flat there but but this song on D it's um the story goes like this young young man young Warrior he had a girlfriend he really loved her really cared a lot for her you know he would do anything for her you know so he he told her I'm going to go out and hunt today you know and bring back some Al beig tribe you even you know the old F kids you know a beast you know some you know he wanted to impress her you know he was really in love with so anyway he got his horses he uh ready to head out and he's heading out he told her he said tell be back he start he wrote off and he started singing this song said when you hear this song he told her thinking about so he wrode up you know he got his out he was coming back to the camp soon as he got back to the camp GE Camp come over this bridge and he see the out he go him of smoke over there Buzzard Ravens all flying around all over the Ridge and he looked down like that and enemy uh tribe attacked their Camp killed all the horses dogs and the old people kids his wife got everybody he found his his folks his Grand folks couldn't find his girlfriend so he looked fell over for her his heart was real heavy his heart was on the ground he lost he know where she went so anyway he gets on his horse he's looking down at the burn Village you know where all this all everybody's gone so he starts riding off and he starts singing a song to me this song is for me it's a searching song it's kind of a spiritual journey you want anything in your life you wanted that bad you'll go out and you'll search for it you won't quit until you find it you want it that bad and that's the way this man felt about this woman so he went out there he sang a song hey he hey hey hey ypp hey yipp he hey hey okay this next song I like to do for you was um it's about my little girl she's not little anymore she's 17 she's bigger than me and um I really love her and she's Apple in my eye you know and I told her I said you know I'm going to do something real good for you one of these days I said I'm going to make a song for you and I said everywhere I go I'm going to go out there and sing this song you know I said whenever I do it I'll be thinking about you you all my prayers and my songs on the wind I said some days I said you'll hear me I said when I know you hear me is that's when you call me and you don't want to know what I'm doing but this song Here is called uh the Sierra song that's her name is Sierra and um it's on one of my CDs you know so this is her song is um um none of my glutes Are any are courtship blutes I don't consider them as courtship courtship plutes but I I managed to um pull a love song out of one of them you know so this is my First Love song I've ever I've ever done um I've ever made up of course I was in love at the time you know and U my girlfriend she used to be um Scottish black Scottish she had really brunette dark brown hair dark skin like mine and she had green eyes you know light green eyes she real pretty woman and she um we were watching uh Braveheart one night I is anybody ever familiar with that the movie Braveheart has anybody ever seen it well they have they have the Scottish flute in there from what I understand is a Scottish flute has about like 12 holes I don't know I've never seen one but anyway she told me she said um she said darl she said she said do you love me and I told her yeah I said I love you you know she said if you love me she said you you'll learn a love song from me I said boy I said you're asking quite a bit she said well you love me don't I said yeah I do I said well tell you what sweetheart I said you go out there you get me a Scottish fluid and I said I'll I'll learn a love song for you she said no she said I want you to do it on the the Native American flute I said boy you're asking for quite a bit you know so I said I'll I'll learn one for you so anyway she'd go to work and stuff like that I'd sit at home and practice my music every day so what inspired me to do this song was uh was I I had to watch um um Braveheart about three four times before I finally got the sound and The Melody of the song and it took me a long time to get the song down but anyway this is what I got out of it and um that day she told me she said sweetheart if you love me you'll learn me this song so this is what I call this song I call it the Sweetheart song you got to bear with these flutes that they're really temperamental just like that drum out there it's not up to 100% cuz it was raining out and it's kind of humid and these flutes are like that you know and when it gets too cold they don't cooperate if it's too warm they won't cooperate and if it's in between really temperamental instruments to work with so if you hear something in there that doesn't belong in there well it's not me it's definitely the flute you know but anyway um this is my first and probably Last Love Song I'll Ever play for any anybody but that's it let it happens again but all know when it does this is called the uh The Sweetheart um I really have a tough time doing this song but I'm going to do it for you anyway then I'm going to I'm going to close out with the doer this one here is um I really have a tough time doing it because um it speaks the truth and sometimes we don't like to hear the truth but the truth helps us heal and it sets things straight between people you know but this song Here is called um from San Creek to wounded KNE we all know what happened there and I'm I'm a direct to a a black Kett band down in Oklahoma quarter Southern Chey and they were my people you know and um this song Here came across my path you know and so I'm going to play it for you and then I'm going to tell you what I what I'm playing about so don't be offended or anything like that but it's it's just the truth you know and when we when we look at the truth you know it helps his heal inside and everything can be better and we can all you know forgive one another and Life Goes On you know and we we become better people you know okay let's go from Sand Creek to Wounded Knee it says my people cry for help but no one hears their Echoes only ReSound in the cold winds their voices are the voices of the mute as the sad widows chant Millennial Old Death songs the little ones are hungry and are frightened they cry with their last breath the old and the crippled have no chance to escape or hide their cup is the cup of genocide no one hears is their cry human rights is not their bread un is not their savior they are Indians and destined to disappear their gold and silver are wanted but not them in helplessness we agonize only the Creator is our last breath okay um this next song here um I've been working on it quite a bit and it's really a difficult song to learn but I overcame that and um I'm even getting better with it so what I do is um this is my version of The Lord's Prayer I not the Lord's Prayer but Amazing Grace and um right now I'm teaching myself how to um I want to teach myself how to sing it in my own native tongue which is groon and from what I gather is um the music's pretty hard to pretty hard hard to do you know but I'm going to do it you know and um I usually sing it with the drum I can sing it I I can sing it in English then what I do is and I sing it in Cherokee then after that I do a grant uh my own chant what I do but I don't have time so I'm going to I'm going to play for you on this flute right here this is a my version of Amazing Grace it's the way the Creator wanted me to play it you know and he said you know be your yourself you know you know don't try to follow anybody or sound like anybody just be yourself and you know be genuine and everybody will respect you because you're real is there any questions I can ask ask you or you can ask me or I can answer for or any questions at all today I just wondered if you made your own flutes are those handmade no I I don't make my own flutes I've tried it once and I just did not have the knack for it I didn't have the patience for it but now I do but I am going to make one down down the road you know these fluts are they're special order from a guy by name ordell Borg and he makes them down in Patagonia Arizona and they're really good sounding flutes here they're they're they're clean they're crisp and they're really easy to play you know then uh he has um when you order these flutes a booklet comes in a a pamphlet and it's got all everything you want to know about the flute and it's got a CD that teaches you how to play it but when I got this flute when I ordered I just took the CD and threw it away and I kept the booklet and I never did look in the booklet and I'm basically I'm self-taught only thing I wanted was his flute you know but that's where you can get him from you can um if you want to get these kind of flutes go down to uh um Aunt Bonnie's B bookstore in Helena and if you don't if you see a flu there that you want they'll order it for you and they're not that expensive then another place to sell them is over at uh Piccolo's music in Helena they got a bigger variety over there but they're more expensive but still they're the same flute you know when I first started buying these um like this one here cost $59 now it's they want $79 for it so um they go up because of the popularity of people wanting to play them one more question back here what kind of wood are your flutes made from say what what kinds of wood oh oh the flutes they can be made out of U various things they can made out be made out of water water Willow water reads they can be made out of Bones Eagle bone Condor bones turkey bones human bones I me seriously those people down in the Amazon when they they have flutes down there flutes were made out of various instruments like they're made out of Walnut they're made out of Cedar they're made out of Basswood they're made out of white wood they're made out of any kind of a wood that you can carve on they're made out of but the choice for Native Americans to use is Cedar cuz that's a in our way that's a very sacred wood you know so a lot of Native Americans they they make their blutes out of Cedar but you know like me I like to improvise and you know I like to be curious and you know find different kind of instruments just I'm looking for different sounds sound qualities and stuff like that and you know like i' I've got to go down the road and got I got to buy about nine more you know before I I can find out you know which one I really want but the choice I like to play is um the cedar flute you know but other this is Walnut they got Hickory they got all kinds of wood you can build flutes out of that that Mr ell Bor he's pretty talented at making these and you know give him a give him a call there's a I think it's PCB tubing that they use they make them out of them too and they sound really good except uh I played them before and they don't have no Spirit you know cuz they're plastic kind of like a kind of like a recorder okay thank you very much once again Daryl shortman thank you very much for letting me be here and I appreciate you guys showing up and it makes my heart feel good inside that you know somebody wants to come all the way over here listen to me listen to me play and again I just want to say thank you very much for coming here and listening to me okay back