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SCHOOL DAYS
I was six years old when Mr. Hall, a missionary, came to us, from the Santee Sioux. He could not speak the Mandan or the Hidatsa language, but he spoke Sioux, which some of our people understood. He was a good singer; and he had a song which he sang with Sioux words. Our people would crowd about him to hear it, for it was the first Christian song they had ever heard.
The Sun Man (Redrawn from a sketch by Goodbird).
The song began:
“Ho washte, ho washte,
On Jesus yatan miye;
Ho wakan, ho wakan,
Nina hin yeyan!”