Sunka Wakan - Is the Lakota Sioux term for horse, meaning mysterious dog or sacred dog.
Story behind the song
All parts played on the AKAI MPK261 midi controller keyboard.
Acoustic Guitar vst by VITA using MAGIX & AKAI Arpeggiators.
Kiowa Flute vst by MAGIX World Flutes.
Drums and Castanets vst by VITA
Bass vst by MAGIX
Grand Choir vst by Miroslav Philharmonik
Sunka Wakan - Is the Dakota, Nakota & Lakota Sioux term for horse, meaning “mysterious dog or sacred dog" which is quite literally how they viewed the Spanish Mustangs.
The 3 great Sioux nations used dogs as beasts of burden in the days before horses were reintroduced to America, and the Spanish Mustangs looked just like big dogs to them, and for this reason, they originally called horses Tasun-Ke "big dogs".
For the great plains tribes, horses soon became 'Wakan', which means magical and spiritual, which they paired with their word for dog 'Sunka'
Sunka Wakan transformed the Sioux, from trudging on foot, walking from the winter camps to their summer lodges, into swift masters of the plains, hunting the sacred buffalo from the backs of their magical creatures, the descendants of horses Cortez and his Spanish forces brought to the Americas centuries earlier.
The Spanish Mustang has gone by many names, call him cow pony or quarter horse, mustang or Indian pony, cayuse or Spanish pony, basically they are all the same animal the Sioux nations, to this day, still refer to as Sunka Wakan, their 'Sacred Dogs'.