William Horn Cloud
William Horn Cloud | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1905 or 1907 |
| Died | 1992 |
| Father | Joseph Horn Cloud |
William Horn Cloud (1905 - 1992), also known as known as William ‘Horncloud’, was a Lakota singer.
Early life and family
Horn Cloud was born in 1905 in Potato Creek, South Dakota.[1][2] Joseph witnessed and survived the Wounded Knee Massacre at age 16, during which his father and mother were killed. William grew up on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.[3]
William Horn Cloud married Nancy Red Cloud,[4] the daughter of Oglala Lakota Chief Charles Red Cloud, who was the grandson of historical Chief Red Cloud (1822–1909) of Red Cloud's War 1866–1868. By September 1989, the couple lived on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.[5]
Musical career
Horn Cloud learned many traditional songs through Lakota elders. He was known in the powwow circuit as a singer, dancer, orator and interpreter of traditional Lakota songs and culture who greatly contributed to preserving Lakota, Sioux culture and tradition. Johnny Cash[6] visited with Horn Cloud and played songs.
Horn Cloud was a regular performer for the Sun Dance and for Yuwipi ceremonies.[2]
Some of Horn Cloud's tracks were re-released on Canyon Records’ Traditional Lakota Songs,[7] which has tracks from Sioux Songs of War and Love. Both albums contain the track entitled "Honoring Song”, featuring Horn Clouds 86-year-old father-in-law Chief Charles Red Cloud of Pine Ridge South Dakota singing the song of his grandfather, Red Cloud; the lyrics describe the difficulty of being Indian in a white man's world.[8] Horn Cloud's recording of the traditional Lakota 'love song’ is included on the album Lightning and Wind: The Voice and Flute of a Nation under the title 'Nióiye Wéksuye, with additional tracks by Kevin Locke.
Albums
- Sioux Songs of War and Love (1971, Canyon Records [cr-6150])[1]
- Sings Sioux Rabbit Songs[9]
- Sioux Love Song/ Rabbit Dance Song.[10][9]
Activism
In the late 1980s and 1990s, Horn Cloud was among a group of activists seeking government recognition of the Wounded Knee Massacre.[5]
References
- 1 2 "Sioux Songs Of War And Love". Drumhop.
- 1 2 Powers, William K. (1971). "Review of Sioux Favorites". Ethnomusicology. 15 (1): 154–160. doi:10.2307/850399. ISSN 0014-1836.
- ↑ United States Congress Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs (1991). Proposed Wounded Knee Park and Memorial: Hearing Before the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session ... April 30, 1991, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, SD. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-16-035570-7.
- ↑ "Nancy Red Cloud". Ancestry.com.
- 1 2 Gonzalez, Mario; Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth (1999). The Politics of Hallowed Ground: Wounded Knee and the Struggle for Indian Sovereignty. University of Illinois Press. pp. 32–33. ISBN 978-0-252-06669-6.
- ↑ The Man Called CASH: The Life, Love and Faith of an American Legend (book, chapter 8)
- ↑ Library of Congress https://lccn.loc.gov/2005583653
- ↑ "William Horncloud - Traditional Lakota Songs (CR-6150)". Canyon Records.
- 1 2 The Encyclodedia of Native Music. The University of Arizona Press. April 2005. p. 402. ISBN 9780816524471.
- ↑ "Rabbit Sioux Songs". Drumhop.
- 1900s births
- 1992 deaths
- 20th-century American male singers
- 20th-century Native American male singers
- 20th-century Native American singers
- Lakota leaders
- Native American people from South Dakota
- Activists from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota
- Mass media people from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota
- Musicians from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota