BUTTERFLY SONG
Originally titled “For All Those Butterflies”, the song was written by Brock Stonefish about a tragic car accident that took place at an annual Pow-Wow on Brock’s home community. This song is for all those butterflies, the women we have lost on Turtle Island. This song is also Why We Wear Red for the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women as well as our Mothers, Sisters, and Daughters lost to Drinking and Driving.
RESIDENTIAL REDEMPTION
A Dedication to Residential School, Indian Boarding School, Indian Day School, 60’s Scoop Survivors and the little children and babies that never made it home to their families. To the ones that we are uncovering hidden graves, to the bones of souls that are now criminal evidence of mass genocide on the Indigenous Peoples of North America. This is also dedicated to the Indigenous children today being torn from their families by Government Welfare Agencies disguised within our own Native Organizations holding titles in Native Languages only to continue obeying Colonial Rules designed to KILL the Indigenous Way of Life.
PADDLE ON
Paddle On - Written and Performed by Brock Stonefish for NPR's 2022 Tiny Desk Contest. In this Song, It tells the story of Indigenous Lenape/Delaware people leaving our Homelands taken by Christians between Maryland and Manhattan. We have had to "Paddle On" west to Oklahoma, and paddled on north to Ohio and Canada in the late 1700s.
STEAM INJUN
Steam Injun - Written by Brock Stonefish, in this video Brock shares how this particular song came about during his time in the United States commuting on trains from Boston to Cape Cod, or times when he would wait at the New Jersey Transit lines of Bergen County commuting into New York City. Enjoy the ride as this song takes you on a little time away from now.
COULD BE WORSE
Waking out of a bad dream about love and heartbreak can ruin anyone’s morning. But hey, things could be worse as expressed in this song with colorful lyrics and chord changes.
MOM’S JINGLE DRESS SONG
This song comes from the Stoney-Sioux People on the Alexis Reserve in Alberta. The song was given when my mom woke up her Jingle Dress that was also a gift to her by the Lake of The Woods Ojibwe People. For one year each snuff can cone was placed one at a time each day of that year. From some recent help, I was able to translate the song, "woman is dancing, earth dancing".
This Song has most recently been Featured on The 2021 Red Nation Awards in Hollywood California.
TALKING TREE
Talking Tree is about a squeaky tree along the Thames River on the property of Brock's Forefathers were the Battle of The Thames was fought during the War of 1812.This is a revised version minus several verses telling the story of a Lenape man being visited by the spirit of the tree, telling him how the tree was planted on top of a grave in the year before 1793. Historically the Delaware Nation at Moraviantown was established in 1792. So the tree explains to him the only way to win the battle is to keep his leaves green. And of course the tree was witness to the death of Tecumseh, but leaves it a mystery of his burial. Originally when I wrote this song the 1st verse was "Sitting under a Talking Tree, Every night he been talking to me Telling me about my baby, I don't know what he's telling me" Erected in 1810 the old Mission Church stands the old Mission Farm House which is currently the public library. Many people over the years have claims to have heard babies crying in the basement.
The LIVE performance took place in Victoria Park right in the centr of Downtown Kincardine Ontario Canada at the 2022 Lighthouse Blues Festival.