Songhees
The Songhees or Songish, also known as the Lekwungen or Lekungen, are an indigenous North American Coast Salish people who reside on southeastern Vancouver Island, British Columbia in the Greater Victoria area. Their government is the Songhees First Nation, a member of the Te'mexw Treaty Association and the Naut'sa Mawt Tribal Council. Their traditional language is Lekwungen, a dialect of the North Straits Salish language.
There is evidence of a fortified village existing at Finlayson Point in Beacon Hill Park prior to the arrival of Europeans in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Songhees' traditional foods included salmon, shellfish, whale, deer, duck, berries, camas root, and herbs. The Coast Salish traditionally lived in bighouses, which were large rectangular communal houses of cedar planks, adorned with carved and jointed totem posts.
Pre-contact
Before European contact much of the government was through a clan system, with twelve clans which each had its own fishing and hunting territory. Chiefship was hereditary in the male line and there were three castes - nobles, commons, and slaves. Like other north-west coast tribes they practiced potlatch, ceremonial gift distribution and head flattening was also practiced. The dead were buried in canoes or boxes upon the surface of the ground, or laid away in trees, and slaves could be sacrificed. Mentioning the names of a dead person was taboo. Before conversion to Christianity (predominantly Roman Catholicism and Methodism) they were animists with tribal life and ceremonies dominated by two secret societies.
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Never Dis Di Man
by: SanchezThere are lots of signs in life
some that you may not like
you could be living this minute
the next minute your gone away aye
Hold up your heads my brothers
Be conscious, my sisters
And by your works you shall surely be paid aye
Chorus:
(Never...)
Never try to dis the man with the angle
(Ever...)
the one whose got the title
The one who sits high and he looks down low (aye, aye)
(Never...)
And if you ever dis the man with the angle
(Ever...)
the one who got the title
then you'll be someone that he dont know
Say a prayer and chant a psalm
Prayer that can keep the evil calm
You dont have to go to church and be a christian to call on Jah name
(Hallelljah)
Shout out the name Jahovah in the Valley
(Jahovah)
Shout out the name Jahovah on the Hills
(Hallelljah)
Shout out the name Jahovah on the Plains
(Jahovah)
Or even if it rains
Call on the name (Amen)
Call on (Amen) Jah name the same
Call on the name (Amen) yea (Amen)
CHORUS
Listen up, I no time skin-up
Time is short and Life is precious aye
Listen up, I no time skin-up
Life is short no time is precoius
You got to have the heart of a lion
if you want to reach mount Zion
You can never be afraid
just calll on his name
Life is no game...
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Life is no game
(Life, Life, Life is no game)
CHORUS
There are lots of signs in life
Some that you may not like
You could be living this minute
The next minute your gone away aye
HOLD UP you heads my brothers
BE Conscious my sisters
And by your works you shall surely be paid ye, aye