Flag_song.ogg


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Description

Flag song: a song in the Omaha language.

Translation: "When you went overseas, you made a stand so that the flag could be raised. When you returned, you brought the flag back. You saved our lives."

Performance: Hethu'shka Society concert. Neptune Plaza, Library of Congress, Washington DC.

See also explanation of the flag song (an anthem of the Omaha people) by Rufus White at LOC digital ID afcomaha 0778
Date 22 August 1985, 12:30-1:30pm
Source Library of Congress, Call Number Call Number 1985/015: 0703
Author Traditional. Performed by James Walker and Rufus White
This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID 0703 afcomaha 0703 .
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